Plane Properties Dialog

To access this dialog:

In the Sheets control bar, Planes folder, right-click an existing planes object, select Properties.

Your application can use strings digitised onto wireframes to specify key planes, for example for joint space analysis. As part of this, a variety of tools and visualization methods are available to help with their generation and interpretation.

For each string, an average plane is calculated which best fits all the points in the string (open or closed). The plane is oriented around its line of true dip, and extents calculated to just fit the source string.

This dialog allows you to format an existing plane, using one of three available tabs:

General: set up base properties for the defined plane. More...
Associated Files: attach external files to your plane entities. More...
Info Mode List: add information to the plane, to be shown when it is right-clicked in the VR window. More...

The settings described here apply to the currently active 3D window and all linked external windows. Independent windows will be unaffected.

Field Details:

The General tab of the Planes Properties dialog contains the following fields:

Name: displays the current name of the selected data object overlay. You can edit this name and click OK or Apply to change the model file name within the project. Note that editing the name of a 3D object will not affect the description assigned to the underlying (Source) file - see below. You can edit this if you like, which is the same as using the Sheets control bar menu's Rename option.

Source: shows the name of the loaded object from which the current 3D overlay was derived.

Display Type: planes can be viewed as either rectangular or circular shapes.

RGB: if your data object contains attribute reflecting RGB color information, select them here to color your data using this in-object information. Only numeric fields will be available.

Any color depth is supported; define the Maximum Value for the color attributes. For example:

4-bit color depth is described a Maximum Value of 15 (0-15 = 16 per color channel)
8-bit color depth is described using a Maximum Value of 255 (0-255 = 256 per color channel)
12-bit color depth is described using a Maximum Value of 4095 (0-4095 = 4096 per color channel)
16-bit color depth is described using a Maximum Value of 65535 (0-65535 = 65536 per color channel)
24-bit color depth is described using a Maximum Value of 16,777,215 (0-16,777,215 = 16,777,216 per color channel)

Color: display legends can either be a standard fixed color, or you can choose to color your data according to a display legend:

Fixed: select this option to use the same color to render your chosen item. Note that this color will also be used to color data that cannot be matched to a legend interval when the Legend option is chosen (see below).

Legend: when this option has been selected, the initial drop-down list in this area can be used to select a predefined legend (system standard or user-created). When a legend has been selected, you will need to select a data field that contains the values to be matched to the legend for display purposes, using the Column drop-down list. Note that only fields relevant to the currently selected object are shown.

As with all legend drop-down lists, once an item has been selected, you can elect to edit the chosen legend or preview it. You can also automatically create a default legend for any selected field:

	Preview the currently selected legend intervals and display properties
	Edit the currently selected legend using the Legend Manager.
	Select a default legend for the selected data column if one already exists, or if no default legend is available, the Create New Legend wizard will appear to let you create a new legend.

Opacity: set the level of opacity/transparency for the selected plane where 100% is completely opaque and 0% is invisible.

For more information on viewing a selected plane's data properties, click here.