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Draw local trimming volume when creating a new surface

Enables drawing the local trimming volume box around new surfaces when they are created.

Unchecked

Draw surface trimming volumes instead of surfaces

Enables drawing the surface trimming volume box around surfaces. For use with large models.

Unchecked

Draw trimming volumes instead of surfaces when rotating with mouse

When this feature is enabled, trimming volumes are drawn instead of surfaces when the mouse is being used to translate or rotate a model in the visualization view.  This option can greatly improve the speed of model manipulation when working with large models.

Unchecked

Fit-View-To-All ignore non-traceable entities

Ignore non-traceable entities when sizing to Fit-View-To-All.

Unchecked

Fit-View-To-All ignore curves

Ignore curves when sizing to Fit-View-To-All.

Unchecked

Scale factor when drawing ray extensions

Determines the amount of dash to draw when a ray misses geometry and heads into infinity during a raytrace. To turn off drawing missed rays, set this value to 0.

1

Size of spots in 3D spot diagram

Sets the default size in pixels of the ray spots in spot diagrams.

2

Ray drawing line width

Line draw width in pixels.

1

Ray drawing arrow size scale factor

Scales size of ray arrow (0 for no arrow).

0

Ray drawing arrow location

Sets location of arrow along ray draw line (as a fraction of ray propagation distance).

0.5

Set surface tessellation scale factor

Resets tessellation upon file read-in.  The first value is considered a lower limit.  Any imported file with tessellation values lower than this will automatically be reset to the second value.

[0]  [1]

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