Surface settings

The surfaces subproject has several properties and parameters.

• Click Surfaces.

• Click Settings.

  

• This command opens a new window.

• Surface properties allows to change the properties of the active surface subproject.

  

  • Surface name: the name of the current surface subproject.

  • Visible: toggles display of subproject entities.

  • Use unique color: toggles the display of all subproject entities with a chosen color.

  • Color: sets the color for the displaying of entities.

  • Render mode: sets the method by which the program should associate the color with triangles. The options are:

    • Fixed color: applies the standard color settings for the entity.

    • By elevation: applies the color gradation according to the Elevation colors setting.

    • True color: if the surface has been colored by texture or by Point clouds you can see the original color.

    • Texture: applies a texture (raster) to the surface of triangles.

• Display filters allow you to show or hide subproject entities without having to turn layers on or off, and unlike layers, they only act on entities of the selected type.

  

  • Breaklines: toggles the display of breaklines.

  • Boundaries: toggles the display of boundary lines.

  • Triangles: toggles the display of surface triangles.

  • Contour lines: toggles the display of contour lines.

  • Slope direction symbols: toggles the display of slope symbols.

  • Cut-Fill lines: toggles the display of cut-fill lines.

  • Project polylines: toggles the display of the design polylines.

  • Calculation zones: toggles the display of the calculation zones.