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.

• In Elevation colors you can set the color scale to apply, depending on the elevation. This can be applied to the triangles model and to the contour lines.

  

  • Automatic limits: enables/disables automatic use of the minimum and maximum elevation according to the model. If the option is active, the program automatically calculates the minimum and maximum elevation. if the option is off, you can manually enter the minimum and maximum elevation values.

  • Minimum elevation: allows you to set the minimum elevation to apply the color associated with the minimum elevation.

  • Maximum elevation: allows you to set the maximum elevation to apply the color associated with the maximum elevation.

  • Scale color: it allows to set the colors and the number of intervals of the scale.

  • Color Choice Box: allows you to set the color to be associated with a new range.

  • Add: allows you to add a range of elevation to the set scale.

  • Delete: allows you to delete a range of elevation in the set scale.