Mesh preferences

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

General Preferences

• Automatic Update
  • If you toggle Automatic Update checkbox, the model in your viewer automatically updated whenever you make changes in it.
  • Size limit (elements) - allows to specify the maximum number of elements in the resulting mesh for which the automatic updating of the presentation is performed. This option affects only Compute operation. Zero value means "no limit". Default value is 500 000 mesh elements.
• 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.
  • Number of digits after point - defines precision for Quality Controls. 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.
• Mesh information
  • Mesh element information - Change the way mesh element information is shown:
    • Simple - as a plain text
    • Tree - in a tree-like form
• 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
• Input fields precision
  • Length precision - allows to adjust input precision of coordinates and dimensions.
  • Angular precision - allows to adjust input precision of angles.
  • Length tolerance precision - allows to adjust input precision of tolerance of coordinates and dimensions.
  • Parametric precision - allows to adjust input precision of parametric values.
  • Area precision - allows to adjust input precision of mesh element area.
  • Volume precision - allows to adjust input precision of mesh element volume.

Mesh Preferences

• Nodes
  • Color - allows to select the color of nodes. Click on the colored line to access to the Select Color dialog box.
  • Type of marker - allows to define the shape of nodes.
  • Scale of marker - 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

• 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

• 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)
• Distribution in this menu you can Show/Hide distribution histogram of the values of the Scalar Bar and specify the Coloring Type of the histogram
  • Multicolor the histogram is colored as Scalar Bar
  • Monocolor the histogram is colored as selected with Distribution color selector