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diff --git a/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/selection_filter_library.doc b/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/selection_filter_library.doc
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--- a/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/selection_filter_library.doc
+++ b/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/selection_filter_library.doc
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
\page selection_filter_library_page Selection filter library
\n Selection filter library allows creating and storing in files
-filters that can be later loaded and used for operations on meshes. You can
-access to it from the Main Menu via Tools / Selection filter library.
-It is also possible to save any filter by invoking the filter library
-from \a Filter dialog launched from any mesh operation.
+the filters that can be later reused for operations on meshes. You can
+access it from the Main Menu via Tools / Selection filter library.
+It is also possible to save/load a filter by invoking the filter library
+from \ref filtering_elements "Filter dialog" launched from any mesh operation.
\image html selectionfilterlibrary.png
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ the current study. You can \b Add or \b Delete filters.
filter. By default it is prefixed with the corresponding entity type.
\anchor filtering_elements
+
Filter Dialog
When we use filters during group creation or another operation (by
clicking Set Filter button in the corresponding dialog), the
@@ -66,15 +67,26 @@ created. You have to select the mesh and the button will be enabled.
Some criteria are applicable to all Entity types:
-
Belong to Geom selects entities whose all nodes lie on the
-shape defined by Threshold Value. If the threshold shape is a
-sub-shape of the main shape of the mesh the algorithm works faster, if
-this is any other shape the algorithm works slower.
+shape defined by Threshold Value.
+If the threshold shape is a sub-shape of the main shape of the mesh,
+the filtering algorithm works faster because node-to-shape association
+is used instead of measuring distance between nodes and the shape, and
+\b Tolerance is not used. If the threshold shape is any other shape,
+the algorithm works slower because distance between nodes and the
+shape is measured and is compared with \b Tolerance. The latter
+approach (distance measurement) is also used if an element is not
+associated to any shape.
-
Lying on Geom selects entities whose at least one node
lies on the shape defined by the Threshold Value.
-If the threshold shape is a sub-shape of the main shape of the mesh the
-algorithm works faster, if this is any other
-shape, the algorithm works slower.
+If the threshold shape is a sub-shape of the main shape of the mesh,
+the filtering algorithm works faster because node-to-shape association
+is used instead of measuring distance between nodes and the shape, and
+\b Tolerance is not used. If the threshold shape is any other shape,
+the algorithm works slower because distance between nodes and the
+shape is measured and is compared with \b Tolerance. The latter
+approach (distance measurement) is also used if an element is not
+associated to any shape.
-
Belong to Mesh Group selects entities included into the mesh group
defined by the Threshold Value.
@@ -97,7 +109,7 @@ other parts. Threshold Value locating any element of the domain can be ei
-Some criteria are applicable to all Entity types of dimension
+Some criteria are applicable to entities of dimension
more than zero, i.e. to \b Edges, \b Faces and \b Volumes:
-
Linear allows selection of Linear or Quadratic elements (if Unary is set to "Not")
@@ -111,8 +123,8 @@ as a combination of geometry type and the number of nodes.
-The following criteria are applicable to all Entity types
-except for Volumes:
+The following criteria are applicable to Entities of \b all types
+except for \a Volumes:
-
Belong to Plane selects entities whose all nodes belong to a
specified plane within a given Tolerance.
@@ -182,8 +194,8 @@ The following criteria allow selecting mesh Faces:
\ref area_page "Area quality control"), which is more, less or equal (within a given
Tolerance) to the predefined Threshold Value.
-
-Free edges selects 2D mesh elements having at least one of its
-edges not shared with other faces. See also a
+Free edges selects 2D mesh elements having at least one
+edge, which is not shared with other faces. See also a
\ref free_edges_page "Free Edges quality control".
-
Free faces selects 2D mesh elements, which belong to less than two volumes.
@@ -222,7 +234,7 @@ diagonals with a value of length, which is more, less or equal
-The following criteria allow selecting mesh Volumes:
+The following criteria allow selecting mesh Volumes:
-
Aspect ratio 3D selects 3D mesh elements with an aspect ratio (see also an
\ref aspect_ratio_3d_page "Aspect Ratio 3D quality control"), which is more, less or equal