Isolating Specific Objects (Sources, Geometry and Analysis Surfaces) When manipulating a model in the 3D view, the user's line of sight to an object of interest can become obscured by additional geometry in the system. The "Isolate and Fit View to Selection" options allows the user to focus the 3D view on a designated object(s) and suppress the rendering of the remaining geometry in order to get an unobstructed view of the object(s) of interest. Note that this does NOT AFFECT THE RAYTRACE, which can still be performed when objects have been isolated in the 3D view.
Isolating specific objects of interest in the 3D view is a multiple step process:
Isolation is not limited to to sources, geometry and analysis objects. In addition, multiple coatings, materials, raytrace controls, scatter models, surface rougheners and keywords can be simultaneously selected on the tree and then, from a right mouse click menu on one of the selected properties, the same 3D view isolation features as described above can be invoked. Once activated, the 3D view will only show objects which have been assigned any of the properties that were isolated upon (i.e. the selected properties are OR'ed together in order to determine which objects are displayed in the 3D view). This property-based isolation mechanism can be very useful for visualizing the current state of a model, especially when the model contains many complex object groups which can use similar property assignments.
There are two methods for returning to the non-isolated system view:
Re-activating 3D View Isolation The isolate view feature is automatically disabled when a change to the document is made, but can be re-activated by right mouse clicking on the object tree and selecting "Enable Isolate Feature" or by toggling the corresponding toolbar button.
This command can be accessed in the following ways:
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