The "3D" tools are only relevant when working with 3D windows. They will be unavailable if the current window is associated with a 2D or TAG module.

 

 

 

The available tools are:

 

•Background

This tool is used to control the color of the 3D window background.

 

•Lights

This tool is used to control the lightning of the 3D geometries.

 

•Measures

This tool gives you 3D measurements on the geometries present in the program.

 

•Overlays

This tool is used to display 3D graphic objects such as axis systems or bounding boxes around the geometries..

 

•Results

This tool is used to export results to an Excel file.

 

•Shading

This tool is used to control how the 3D geometries are represented

 

•Slices

This tool is used too display the 2D frames in  3D space.

 

•Surrface Smoothing

This tool is used to perform surface smoothing on the geometries produced by the "Shell" modules.

 

•Transform

This tool is used to modify the "transformation Matrix". It enables you to  position a camera and manipulate the 3D objects with the mouse.

 

 

The optional tools for this group are:

 

•Cleanup

This tool enable you to view and delete unconnected 3D surfaces. 

 

•Displacement Burn-in

This tool enables you to use the displacement information associated with each node to actually change the node's position.  The displacement will be added to the node's coordinates.

 

•Geometry Selection

This tool enables you to change the 3D geometry selection.  Some tools will act only on the selected geometries. You can use this tool to control the geometries these tools will affect.

 

•Sphere Fit

This toll enable you to create a sphere that "fit" a geometry by minimizing the distance from the selected points on the geometry to the surface of the sphere using the least square method.

 

•Surface Relaxation

This tool enable you to get sub-voxel accuracy for some 3D surfaces.

 

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