HyperView User's Guide

Visualization Toolbar

Visualization Toolbar

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Visualization Toolbar

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The Visualization toolbar provides you quick access to the Entity Attributes and Exploded View panels, and also allows you to set and apply the current element visualization mode to the entities on the model.

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Visualization toolbar

To access each panel or set/modify/apply the element visualization mode, click the corresponding button on the toolbar:

Button

Left-click

LEFT Behavior

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Entity Attributes panel

Opens the Entity Attributes panel.

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Color By mode
(Component, Model,  Normal, or Part)

Use the drop-down menu to change the color by mode to:

•Component - Set the current color by mode to Component.
•Model - Set the current color by mode to Model.  Model color can be set in the Files View of the browser.
•Normal - Set the current color by mode to Normal.  A positive normal side will be displayed in red and a negative normal side of an element will be displayed in blue. This mode is applicable only to shell elements.  Other types of elements will be shown in gray.
•Part - Set the current color by mode to Part.

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Wireframe Elements
(default)

Set the current element visualization mode to Wireframe Elements.  Internal and surface mesh lines display.

To change the element visualization mode, left-click the lower right arrow hv_vis_tlbr_wireframe_options_icon to expand the Options menu.

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Transparent Elements and Feature Lines

Set the current element visualization mode to Transparent Elements and Feature Lines.  Elements are shaded but transparent, no mesh lines display, however feature lines do.

Left-click the lower right arrow to expand the Options menu.

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Shaded Elements and Mesh Lines (default)

Set the current element visualization mode to Shaded Elements and Mesh Lines.  Elements are shaded and surface mesh lines display.

To change the element visualization mode, left-click the lower right arrow hv_vis_tlbr_element_icon to expand the Options menu.

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Shaded Elements and Feature Lines

Set the current element visualization mode to Shaded Elements and Feature Lines.  Elements are shaded but have no mesh lines, while feature lines display.

Left-click the lower right arrow to expand the Options menu.

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Shaded Elements

Set the current element visualization mode to Shaded Elements.  Elements are shaded, but no lines display.

Left-click the lower right arrow to expand the Options menu.

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Exploded View panel

Opens the Exploded View panel.

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Symmetry Dialog

Opens the Symmetry dialog.

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Set panel

Opens the Set panel.
NoteThere is no right-click behavior for the icons listed above.