initial implementation of automatic rotation in SHAPER's OCC viewer

[modules/shaper.git] / doc / gui / General / Introduction.rst

diff --git a/doc/gui/General/Introduction.rst b/doc/gui/General/Introduction.rst
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@@ -325,6 +325,13 @@ The information about  Plane, Face additionally shows coordinates of center poin
 
    **Inspection panel** for Face
 
+The shapes information, equal to the provided Inspection panel information on the shape is accessible inpython API by usage of **shapeInfo** command:
+
+ | *from salome.shaper import geom*
+ | *geom.shapeInfo(vertex)*
+ | *==> ('Vertex', 0.0, 0.0, 10.0)*
+
+
 .. _hidefaces_panel:
 
 Hide Faces panel
@@ -387,6 +394,13 @@ This point of view can be modified using viewer commands: **Panning**, **Zooming
 
    Two view windows
 
+The viewer is able to show direction of edges of objects.
+
+.. figure:: /images/edges_directions.png
+   :align: center
+
+   Showing the edges direction
+
 The description of OCC 3D Viewer architecture and functionality is provided in GUI module user's guide in chapter **OCC 3D Viewer**.
 
 .. _parameter_usage:
@@ -468,7 +482,7 @@ Other tabs are activated by click on tab header.
 General tab
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-This tab defines what parts to be activated and what elements to be visible after opening a study or a script.
+This tab defines behavior of Parts and displayed objects on creation or opening of a study, or loading python scripts.
 
 .. figure:: /images/general_preferences.png
    :align: center
@@ -477,6 +491,8 @@ This tab defines what parts to be activated and what elements to be visible afte
 
 **Input fields**:
 
+- **Create new part** flag. If it is enabled, an empty part is created on a study creation.
+
 - **Activate** relates to activation of part when opening a HDF document. Its could be one of the following:
 
   - "Last part" - activate last part in the document (**default value**);
@@ -536,6 +552,7 @@ This tab defines presentation of objects displayed in OCC 3D viewer.
 - **Sketch fully constraint color** selects default color for a sketch with zero degrees of freedom.
 - **Zoom trihedron arrows** if this control is checked then arrows of a view trihedron will be scaled according to current view scale
 - **Axis arrow size** relative size of trihedron arrows. It has effect only in case if **Zoom trihedron arrows** is On.
+- **Enable automatic rotation** enables the perpetual rotation animation in the viewer.
 
 To redefine any color click on the corresponding line to access **Select color** dialog box