Entity Display Settings: Geometry Display

Description

Configures the parameters associated with the display of geometry faces.

Dialog

Fill

None

Does not draw the fill/outline of the geometry faces.
Wireframe

Renders the fill area of geometry faces with wireframes in the selected Fill Colour.
Solid

Renders the fill area of geometry faces with solid colours in the selected Fill Colour.

Fill Colour / Outline

The fill and outline colours of the geometry faces drawn.

None

Hides the outline.
Property

Renders the fill area or draws the outline of geometry faces according to their respective plate property colours, as set under Global: Properties.
Group

Renders the fill area or draws the outline of geometry faces according to their respective group colours, as set under Global: Groups.
Face Number

Renders the fill area or draws the outline of geometry faces according to their respective face number (i.e., one unique colour for each geometry face).
ID Number

Renders the fill area of draws the outline of geometry faces according to their respective ID number, as applied using Face Attributes: ID.
Global

Renders the fill area or draws the outline of geometry faces with a specified colour, regardless of their respective properties or groups.

To change colour, click the adjacent colour square to open Colour Selection dialog, then select or define a colour.
Orientation

Renders the fill area at the +z and -z surfaces of geometry faces with +z and -z colours respectively.

To change colour, click the adjacent colour square to open the Colour Selection dialog, then select or define a colour.
Wire Thickness

If Wireframe is set under Fill, defines the weights of the wireframe lines.
Wire Density

If Wireframe is set under Fill, defines the nominal number of wires used to represent each face. The actual number of wires drawn on a particular face depend on the size of the face with respect to the bounding box of all faces.
Lighting

If set, lighting effects defined under View Options: Drawing Tab are applied to the fill area or outline of geometry faces.
Thickness

The weights of the drawing outlines.

Labels

Displays number labels of selected type next to the geometry faces.

Face Font...

Opens the Settings: Font Selection dialog to adjust the font type, size, style and colour of the displayed labels.

Show Non-Interpolated Edges

If set, edges that have their edge type set to non-interpolated will be drawn with the Non-Interpolated Edge colour ignoring the Outline colour setting.

Show Control Points

If set, displays the control point polygon of the underlying surface for faces with B-spline surface definitions.

The u Lines and v Lines colours denote the u and v parametric directions of the surface, respectively. The control points cannot be edited. Note that surface offsets can make a face appear separated from its associated control point polygon.

To change colour, click the adjacent colour square to open the Color Definition dialog, then select or define a colour.

Show Normals

If set, draws the direction of the positive face normal.

To change colour, click the adjacent colour square to open the Colour Definition dialog, then select or define a colour.

Normals Size

Sets the relative size of the normals vector.

Common Controls