How to Specify Display Settings
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Several model and interface display settings can be specified from the "Options" screen
including options for toolbars, the mini-axis and FEA loads and constraints.
To access the "Options" screen, use the "Tools:Options..." command sequence.
As shown in Figure 1, the "Options" screen will appear with the "General Information"
tab active by default.
Under "Toolbar options", you can choose to use either "Small
buttons" or "Large buttons" and either activate or deactivate the
"Cool look" option (which changes the appearance of toolbars).
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Figure 1: The "General Information" tab of the "Options" screen.
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By clicking on the "Graphics" tab, you can access the options that
are shown in Figure 2.
Under "Display options", you can toggle on or off the "Show axis indicators" option. If this
option is active, the X, Y and Z labels will appear on the mini-axis. If it is not active, the
labels will not be shown. Pressing the "Set background color..." button will access
the "Color Picker" screen, where you can choose the background
color of the main graphics window.
The mini-axis location can be specified by moving the cursor in the area entitled
"Click location to place mini-axis" and clicking. The "Size" vertical slider can be used to specify
the size of the mini-axis.
Under "Lighting", you can:
- control whether or not the lighting is used.
- change the color of the light.
- use vertical and horizontal sliders to control the location of the light source.
- control the brightness of the light.
- control the quality of the images in the preview section.
Under "Troubleshooting", if your system has the capability for OpenGL acceleration, then you can
toggle on or off the "Disable OpenGL acceleration" option. Activating this option will prevent the
graphics processor from using the OpenGL acceleration. Pressing the "Current OpenGL info..." button
will access the "OpenGL Information" screen, which lists the rendering capabilities of your system.
In the "Other" section, you can specify that thicker lines should be used and the increment in degrees
for rotation operations.
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Figure 2: The "Graphics" tab of the "Options" screen.
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You can click on the "FEA Editor" tab to access the options that are shown in Figure 3.
Under "FEA Objects", you can scroll through the listed objects and click to select any item.
Clicking on the button beneath "Current Color" or "Default Color" accesses a
pull-down menu of 20 pre-defined colors from which you can choose the color for the graphical symbol
used to display the associated load or constraint. Also in the pull-down menu, you can press the
"Other..." button to access the "Color" screen, where you can specify any color.
"Current Color" is a per model setting and "Default Color" is the default setting
for new models. Moving the "Size" slider will change the size of all the FEA load and
constraint symbols.
Under "Model Display", activating the "Simplify model display when model is moving."
option will change the model display to a wireframe view as it is dynamically viewed.
This will speed up the dynamic viewing operations (rotate, zoom and pan). The "Selection Color"
option enables you to choose the color that is used to highlight a selected object. The
"Default Shade Color" option enables you to choose the color that is used to shade the model.
The "Highlight Color" option enables you to choose the color that is used to highlight objects that
are related in the model tree, for example, by local coordinate system or layer.
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Figure 3: The "FEA Editor" tab of the "Options" screen. |
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On the "CAD Solid Model" tab shown in Figure 4, the "Default viewing and rendering options"
section enables you to change display options for current and future CAD models.
The "Modify..." button will access the "View and rendering options" screen shown in Figure 5.
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Figure 4: The "CAD Solid Model" tab of the "Options" screen. |
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On the "View" tab of the "View and rendering
options" screen, you can select the method that will be used to color
your model mesh and surfaces in the "Color" section. The
"Clipping" section controls how the model is shown from the front
and back of the viewing plane.The "Show only unmatched and
multi-matched features" can be used when looking at surface problems. (For
more information, see feature matching in the ALGOR User's Guide.)
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Figure 5: The "View" tab of the "View and rendering
options" screen.
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On the "Rendering" tab shown in Figure 6, the "Rendering mesh
size (percent of automatic)" option can be used to control how meshes are rendered. Activating the "Use XYZ curve
information for rendering" option will use the available XYZ information for the surface
geometry. The "Faster rendering" option controls the speed of
rendering.
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Figure 6: The "Rendering" tab of the "View and
rendering options" screen.
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The "Colors" button in the "Default viewing and rendering options" section
of the "CAD Solid Model" tab accesses the "Color Selection" window shown in
Figure 7 from which current selection, refinement point and highlight colors can be chosen.
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Figure 7: The "Color Selection" screen.
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The "Make current options the default" button in the "Default viewing and rendering options" section
of the "CAD Solid Model" tab lets you specify that the settings you currently have
will be used as the defaults for all future models.
To learn more about Superview IV display options, see How to Specify Model Presentations.
For more information about the "Options" screen and display settings, see the
ALGOR User's Guide.
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