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Description
The appearance of the surface in the Visualization window can be modified on this page. The following items can be modified:
•Drawing Mode
•Color
•Shine
•Opacity
•Tessellation (quality of the surface rendering)
•Draw Coordinate Axes
•Draw local Trimming Volume
•Draw global Trimming Volume
Navigation
This feature can be accessed by selecting the Visualization tab in a surface dialog box.
Controls
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Control
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Inputs / Description
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Defaults
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Drawing Mode
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Drawing Mode
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The way the surface is rendered. Options are:
•Surface flat shading
•Surface smooth shading
•Irregular wire frame
•Irregular point sampling
•Explicit surface isocontour wireframe
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Surface flat shading
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Color Attributes
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Attributes
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The wire frame color, shine, and opacity (transparency) of the surface when it is rendered.
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Colors: default
Shine: 128
Opacity: 1
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Color scheme
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Sets ambient, diffuse, specular properties of rendered surface.
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Predefined List
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Selects and assigns surface color.
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Default Surface/ Curve/Grid Color
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Coordinate Axes
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Coordinate Axes
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Sets the color, location, and size of the coordinate axes if they are drawn on that surface.
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RGB
0,0,0
1.2, 1.2, 1.2
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Tessellation
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Tessellation
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The tessellation determines how finely FRED samples the surface for rendering. The smaller the scale, the finer the sampling. Fine sampling increases the amount of time required to render the surface.
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Size: 0
Scale: 1
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Visualization – Drawing Items
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Determines whether these items will be drawn when the surface is rendered.
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Unchecked
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OK
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Accept settings and close dialog box.
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Cancel
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Discard setting and close dialog box.
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Apply
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Apply settings and keep dialog box open.
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Help
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Access this Help page.
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Related Topics
Surface types summary
Create a new surface
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