Display Style

Menu: Window->View style...

Below in an example of the View Style window, where almost all the interesting visualization options can be adjusted. It only deals with meshes, sets or cuts, and not with results.

View Style window

Selecting Volumes, Surfaces and/or Cuts, you can switch them On and Off, Delete them or rename them. By clicking on a Volume, Surface or Cut, and pressing Color... you can adjust the appearance of the selected set; you can change the color, including the Ambient, Diffuse, Specular, Shininess and transparency components, and return it to its Default color. The Diffuse component is used for all the representations, while the others (Ambient, Specular and Shininess) have more effect in Render visualizations.

Also separate styles can be selected for each mesh independently, just by clicking on the icon in the column eith the header 'St '.

Other interesting options which can be set for each individual mesh are:

In the Style menu you can choose how volumes, surfaces and cuts should be drawn. These options are:

With the Render menu you can select how the mesh should be displayed:

The light direction can also be changed by clicking on the lamp icon.

Near the Culling label, you can choose whether the Front Faces or Back Faces are culled, i.e. not drawn, or No Faces are culled. This option is useful for looking at volume meshes, etc.

Both geometry and mesh conditions can also be drawn if they are present in preprocess.

The following two options can be changed separately for each mesh/set/cut:

Massive lets you see the elements that are inside a volume mesh, and draw all the vectors inside a volume/surface/cut when a Boundaries display style is used.

Transparent determines whether the volumes/surfaces/cuts will be drawn as transparent or opaque, so that, for instance, isosurfaces inside them can be viewed easily.