surfaces

Grupo de herramientas Surfaces, Light + Shortcut menu in navigation mode

You can use this tool to simulate materials by assigning surface properties (incl. luster, reflection and transparency) to each line color and pen color.
These settings will be considered by the Animation and RTRender view types and the Render and Record Movie tools. In addition, you can save these settings as favorite files.

Note: If in the Set Surfaces palette the settings are saved with as favorite, then all current surface definitions are saved together as a basic color surface file (*.SUR).
If, on the other hand, you save the settings in the Surface Settings palette of the selected color with as a favorite, then only the surface definition of the current color is saved as a surface file (*.SURF).

Additional options for assigning surfaces

To assign a surface definition to a line color or to an element color

1. Click Set Surface (How).
   

   Activa la opción Definir superficie de una de las siguientes maneras:

   • Actionbar:Rol Modelado Tarea Visualización Grupo de herramientas Animación, iluminación

   • Barra del menú: Modificar Imagen Animación

   • Paleta: Herramientas Modificar en los siguientes módulos:

   Animación

   • Menú contextual: Modo navegación seleccionado - Botón derecho del ratón

   The Set surfaces palette appears. The program only lists the line colors with assigned surfaces.

   Note: You can use or the shortcut menu of a surface to rename or delete these line colors.

   Tip: To redo all assignments:
   Press to reset all values in the Set surfaces palette to the delivery status.

2. Click New surface.

   Or:

   To change a defined surface, click it and go to step 6.

   The Surface Settings palette appears.

3. In the Surface properties area, select the Line color you want to change.
4. If you want, you can enter a Name (up to 32 characters) for the surface of the selected line color.
   The default name is the color number with a "*" as a prefix.
5. On Surface, click Change.

   The Surface Settings palette of the selected color is displayed.

   Tip: Click to reset the surface definition of the selected color to its defaults.

6. Click Load favorite and select a saved surface in SURF format.

   Or:

   Define the surface settings.

7. Click OK to confirm.

   The Surface Settings palette reappears.

8. Click OK to confirm the palette.
9. Repeat steps 2 through 8 to assign more surface settings to line colors.
10. By selecting Save as a favorite, you can save all current definitions in a basic color surface file in SUR format.
11. Close the Set surfaces palette with Close.

Tip: In the Properties palette, you can adjust textures applied to 3D solids.