3 \page mesh_preferences_page Mesh preferences
5 In the Mesh module you can set mesh preferences, which can be used right now
6 or in later sessions with this module according to the preferences.
8 <h2>General Preferences</h2>
10 \image html pref21.png
12 - <b>Automatic Update</b>
13 - If you toggle <b>Automatic Update</b> checkbox, the model in your
14 viewer will be automatically updated when you make changes in it, depending on
15 values of additional preferences specified below.
16 - <b>Size limit (elements)</b> - allows specifying the maximum
17 number of elements in the resulting mesh for which the automatic updating
18 of the presentation is performed. This option affects only
19 <b>Compute</b> operation. Zero value means "no limit". Default value
20 is 500 000 mesh elements.
21 - <b>Incremental limit check</b> - when this control is switched on,
22 the mesh size limit check is not applied to the total number of
23 elements in the resulting mesh, it is applied iteratively to each entity type
24 in the following order: 0D elements, edges, faces, volumes, balls.
25 At each step the number of entities of a certain type is added to the
26 total number of elements computed at the previous step - if the resulting
27 number of elements does not exceed the size limit, the entities of
28 this type are shown, otherwise the user is warned that some entities are not shown.
30 - <b>Quality Controls</b>
31 - If you toggle <b>Display entity</b>, both faces and edges of an
32 object will be displayed in the viewer by default.
33 - If you toggle <b>Use precision</b> checkbox, you can display numbers in
34 <b>Quality Control</b> diagrams at the necessary level of precision.
35 - <b>Number of digits after point</b> - defines precision for
36 <b>Quality Controls</b>. By default, numbers in <b>Quality Control</b>
37 diagrams are presented as integers.
38 - <b>Double nodes tolerance</b> defines the maximal distance between two
39 mesh nodes, at which they are considered coincident by <b>Double nodes</b>
43 - <b>Default display mode</b> - allows to set Wireframe, Shading, Nodes or Shrink
44 presentation mode as default.
46 - <b>Representation of the 2D quadratic elements</b>
47 - <b>Default mode of the 2D quadratic elements</b> combo-box - allows
48 to select lines or arcs for representation of quadratic elements as default.
49 - <b>Maximum Angle</b> - maximum deviation angle used by the
50 application to build arcs.
53 - If you toggle <b>Automatically create groups for MED export</b> check-box,
54 this operation will be carried out automatically.
55 - <b>Show warning when exporting group</b> check-box - allows defining the
56 behavior of the warning when exporting a group.
58 - <b>Mesh computation</b>
59 - <b>Show a computation result notification</b> combo-box allows to
60 select the notification mode about a mesh computation result.
61 There are 3 possible modes:
62 - <b>Never</b> - do not show the result dialog at all;
63 - <b>Errors only</b> - the result dialog will be shown if there were
64 some errors during a mesh computation;
65 - <b>Always</b> - show the result dialog after each mesh
66 computation. This is a default mode.
68 - <b>Mesh information</b>
69 - <b>Mesh element information</b> - change the way mesh element
71 - <b>Simple</b> - as a plain text
72 - <b>Tree</b> - in a tree-like form
73 - <b>Automatic nodes compute limit</b> - allows defining the size limit for the
74 mesh groups for which the number of underlying nodes is calculated
75 automatically. If the group size exceeds the value set in the preferences,
76 the user will have to press \em Compute button explicitly. Zero value
77 means "no limit". By default the value is set to 100 000 mesh elements.
78 - <b>Automatic controls compute limit</b> - allows defining the size limit for the
79 mesh elements for which the Aspect Ratio histogram is calculated
80 automatically. If the mesh elements size exceeds the value set in the preferences,
81 it is possible to press \b Compute button explicitly to calculate the histogram . Zero value
82 means "no limit". By default the value is set to 3 000 mesh elements.
83 - <b>Show details on groups in element information tab</b> - when
84 this option is switched off (default), only the names of groups, to which the node
85 or element belongs, are shown in the \ref mesh_element_info_anchor "Info Tab"
86 tab of "Mesh Information" dialog box. If this option is
87 switched on, the detailed information on groups is shown.
88 - <b>Dump base information</b> - allows dumping base mesh information to the
89 file, see \ref mesh_infos_page.
90 - <b>Dump element information</b> - allows dumping element information to the
91 file, see \ref mesh_infos_page.
92 - <b>Dump additional information</b> - allows dumping additional mesh
93 information to the file, see \ref mesh_infos_page.
94 - <b>Dump controls information</b> - allows dumping quality mesh
95 information to the file, see \ref mesh_infos_page.
97 - <b>Automatic Parameters</b>
98 - <b>Ratio Bounding Box Diagonal / Max Size</b> - this parameter is
99 used for automatic meshing. This is the ratio between the bounding box of the
100 meshed object and the Max Size of segments.
101 - <b>Default Number of Segments</b> - defines the default
102 number of segments on each edge.
104 - <b>Mesh loading</b>
105 - If <b>No mesh loading from study file at hypothesis modification</b>
106 check-box is on, the mesh data will not be loaded from the study file
107 when a hypothesis is modified. This allows saving time by omitting
108 loading data of a large mesh that is planned to be recomputed with other parameters.
110 - <b>Input fields precision</b>
111 - <b>Length precision</b> - allows to adjust input precision of coordinates and dimensions.
112 - <b>Angular precision</b> - allows to adjust input precision of angles.
113 - <b>Length tolerance precision</b> - allows to adjust input precision of tolerance of coordinates and dimensions.
114 - <b>Parametric precision</b> - allows to adjust input precision of parametric values.
115 - <b>Area precision</b> - allows to adjust input precision of mesh element area.
116 - <b>Volume precision</b> - allows to adjust input precision of mesh element volume.
119 - <b>Sub-shapes preview chunk size</b> - allows to limit the number
120 of previewed sub-shapes shown in the hypotheses creation dialog boxes,
121 for example "Reverse Edges" parameter of \ref number_of_segments_anchor "Number of segments" hypothesis.
124 - <b>Historical python dump</b> checkbox allows switching between
125 \a Historical and \a Snapshot dump mode:
126 - In \a Historical mode, Python Dump script includes all commands
127 performed by SMESH engine.
128 - In \a Snapshot mode, the commands relating to objects removed
129 from the Study as well as the commands not influencing the
130 current state of meshes are excluded from the script.
132 <h2>Mesh Preferences</h2>
134 \image html pref22.png
136 - <b>Nodes</b> allows to define default parameters for nodes, which will be applied
137 for a newly created mesh only. Existing meshes can be customized using
138 \ref colors_size_page "Properties dialog box" available from the context menu of a mesh.
139 - <b>Color</b> - allows to select the color of nodes. Click on the
140 colored line to access to the <b>Select Color</b> dialog box.
141 - <b>Type of marker</b> - allows to define the shape of nodes.
142 - <b>Scale of marker</b> - allows to define the size of nodes.
144 - <b>Elements</b> allows to define default parameters for different elements, which will be applied
145 for a newly created mesh only. Existing meshes can be customized using
146 \ref colors_size_page "Properties dialog box" available from the context menu of a mesh.
147 - <b>Surface color</b> - allows to select the surface color of 2D elements
148 (seen in Shading mode). Click on the colored line to access to the
149 <b>Select Color</b> dialog box.
150 - <b>Back surface color</b> - allows to select the back surface color
151 of 2D elements. This is useful to differ 2d elements with
152 reversed orientation. Use the slider to select the color generated basing on
153 the <b>Surface color</b> by changing its brightness and saturation.
154 - <b>Volume color</b> - allows to select the surface color of 3D elements
155 (seen in Shading mode).
156 - <b>Reversed volume color</b> - allows to select the surface color
157 of reversed 3D elements. Use the slider to select the color generated basing on
158 the <b>Volume color</b> by changing its brightness and saturation.
159 - <b>0D element color</b> - allows to choose color of 0D mesh elements.
160 - <b>Ball color</b> - allows to choose color of discrete mesh elements (balls).
161 - <b>Outline color</b> - allows to select the color of element
163 - <b>Wireframe color</b> - allows to select the color of borders of
164 elements in the wireframe mode.
165 - <b>Preview color</b> - allows to select the preview color of the elements.
166 - <b>Size of 0D elements</b> - specifies default size of 0D elements.
167 - <b>Size of ball elements</b> - specifies default size of discrete
169 - <b>Scale factor of ball elements</b> - specifies default scale factor of discrete
171 - <b>Line width</b> - allows to define the width of 1D elements (edges).
172 - <b>Outline width</b> - allows to define the width of borders of
173 2D and 3D elements (shown in the Shading mode).
174 - <b>Shrink coef.</b> - allows to define relative space of elements
175 compared to gaps between them in shrink mode.
178 - <b>Names color</b> - specifies color of group names to be used in
180 - <b>Default color</b> - specifies the default group color, which is used
181 to create a new mesh group (see \ref creating_groups_page "Create Group dialog box").
183 - <b>Numbering</b> allows to define properties of numbering functionality:
184 - <b>Nodes</b> - specifies text properties of nodes numbering
185 (font family, size, attributes, color).
186 - <b>Elements</b> - same for elements.
188 - <b>Orientation of Faces</b> - allows to define default properties of orientation vectors.
189 These preferences will be applied to the newly created meshes only; properties of existing meshes
190 can be customized using \ref colors_size_page "Properties dialog box"
191 available from the context menu of a mesh.
192 - \b Color - allows to define the color of orientation vectors;
193 - \b Scale - allows to define the size of orientation vectors;
194 - <b>3D Vector</b> check-box allows to choose between 2D planar
197 <br><h2>Selection Preferences</h2>
199 \image html pref23.png
201 - <b>Selection</b> - performed with mouse-indexing (preselection)
202 and left-clicking on an object, whose appearance changes as defined in
203 the <b>Preferences</b>.
204 - <b>Object color</b> - allows to select the color of mesh (edges and
205 borders of meshes) of the selected entity. Click on the colored line
206 to access to the <b>Select Color</b> dialog box.
207 - <b>Element color</b> - allows to select the color of surface of selected
208 elements (seen in Shading mode). Click on the colored line to access
209 to the <b>Select Color</b> dialog box.
211 - <b>Preselection</b> - performed with mouse-indexing on an object,
212 whose appearance changes as defined in the <b>Preferences</b>.
213 - <b>Highlight color</b> - allows to select the color of mesh (edges and
214 borders of meshes) of the entity . Click on the colored line to access
215 to the <b>Select Color</b> dialog box.
217 - <b>Precision</b> - in this menu you can set the value of precision
218 used for <b>Nodes</b>, <b>Elements</b> and <b>Objects</b>.
220 <br><h2>Scalar Bar Preferences</h2>
222 \image html pref24.png
224 \note The following settings are default and will be applied for
225 a newly created mesh only. Existing meshes
226 can be customized using local \ref scalar_bar_dlg "Scalar Bar Properties dialog box"
227 available from the context menu of a mesh.
229 - <b>Font</b> - in this menu you can set type, face and color for
230 the font of <b>Title</b> and <b>Labels</b>.
232 - <b>Colors & Labels</b> - in this menu you can set the <b>number of
233 colors</b> and the <b>number of labels</b> in use.
235 - <b>Orientation</b> - here you can choose between vertical and
236 horizontal orientation of the <b>Scalar Bar</b>
238 - <b>Origin & Size Vertical & Horizontal</b> - allows to define
239 placement (<b>X</b> and <b>Y</b>) and lookout (<b>Width</b> and
240 <b>Height</b>) of Scalar Bars.
241 - <b>X</b>: abscissa of the point of origin (from the left
243 - <b>Y</b>: ordinate of the origin of the bar (from the bottom)
245 - <b>Distribution</b> in this menu you can Show/Hide distribution
246 histogram of the values of the <b>Scalar Bar</b> and specify the
247 <b>Coloring Type</b> of the histogram:
248 - <b>Multicolor</b> the histogram is colored as <b>Scalar Bar</b>
249 - <b>Monocolor</b> the histogram is colored as selected with
250 <b>Distribution color</b> selector