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Mesh preferences

In the Mesh module you can set mesh preferences, which can be used in later sessions with this module.

General Preferences

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  • Update
    • If you toggle Automatic Update checkbox, the model in your viewer automatically updated whenever you make changes in it.
  • Quality Controls
    • If you toggle Display entity, both faces and edges of an object will be displayed in the viewer by default.
    • If you toggle Use precision checkbox, you can display numbers in Quality Control diagrams at the necessary level of precision.
  • Precision - can be defined by the Number of digits after point in the corresponding field. By default, numbers in Quality Control diagrams are presented as integers.
  • Display mode - allows to set Wireframe, Shading, Nodes or Shrink presentation mode as default.
  • Representation of the 2D quadratic elements
    • Representation of the 2D quadratic elements combobox - allows to select lines or arcs for representation of quadratic elements.
    • Maximum Angle - maximum deviation angle used by the application to build arcs.
  • Mesh export
    • If you toggle Automatically create groups for MED export checkbox, this operation will be carried out automatically.
    • If you toggle Automatic renumbering checkbox, the exported mesh will be renumbered automatically
  • Mesh computation

    • Show a computation result notification combobox allows to select the notification mode about a mesh computation result. There are 3 possible modes:
      • Never - do not show the result dialog at all;
      • Errors only - the result dialog will be shown if there were some errors during a mesh computation;
      • Always - show the result dialog after each mesh computation. This is a default mode.
    • Automatic Parameters
      • Ratio Bounding Box Diagonal / Max Size - this parameter is used for automatic meshing: ratio between the bounding box of the meshed object and the Max Size of segments.
      • Default Number of Segments - allows defining the default number of segments on each edge

    Mesh Preferences

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    • Nodes
      • Color - allows to select the color of nodes. Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Size - allows to define the size of nodes.
    • Elements
      • Fill - allows to select the color of surface of elements (seen in Shading mode). Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Outline - allows to select the color of borders of elements. Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Back Face - allows to select the color of interior surface of elements. Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Width - allows to define the width of lines (edges and borders of elements).
      • Shrink coef. - allows to define relative space of elements compared to gaps between them in shrink mode.
    • Orientation of Faces - allows to define the behavior of Orientation of faces functionality
      • Color - allows to define the color of orientation vertors;
      • Scale - allows to define the size of orientation vectors;
      • 3D Vector checkbox allows to choose between 2D planar and 3D vectors.


    Selection Preferences

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    • Selection - performed with mouse-indexing (preselection) and left-clicking on an object, whose appearance changes as defined in the Preferences.
      • Object Color - allows to select the color of mesh (edges and borders of meshes) of the selected entity. Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Element color - allows to select the color of surface of selected elements (seen in Shading mode). Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Width - allows to define the width of selected edges.
    • Preselection - performed with mouse-indexing on an object, whose appearance changes as defined in the Preferences.
      • Highlight Color - allows to select the color of mesh (edges and borders of meshes) of the entity . Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
      • Width - allows to define the width of preselected edges.
    • Precision - in this menu you can set the value of precision used for Nodes, Elements and Objects.


    Scalar Bar Preferences

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    • Font - in this menu you can set type, face and color for the font of Title and Labels.
    • Colors & Labels - in this menu you can set the number of colors and the number of labels in use.
    • Orientation - here you can choose between vertical and horizontal orientation of the Scalar Bar.
    • Origin & Size Vertical & Horizontal - allows to define placement (X and Y) and lookout (Width and Height) of Scalar Bars
      • X: abscissa of the point of origin (from the left side)
      • Y: ordinate of the origin of the bar (from the bottom)