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A couple of menus have not displayed correctly.
1 - Grading Creation Tools, following tutorials the Grading Options Checkbox (drop down menu) should be showing more descriptive detail, not a 1. / 2; most likely an enumeration (programming terminology for a numbered list relevant to it's assigned number)
2 - Ditto with Surface Styles;
I am unable to see 3D options for Surface Styles. Tutorials show 3D options being available. I think the 3d options appeared when I first started a week ago but I cannot see them now. Googling said that the error was likely caused by not loading from a template, but I loaded from the metric template so that is not true.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi Dal, both the options within the Grading Creation tool and the Surface Styles are user defined, either created from a template file based on a company standard or just created and edited as needed.
Within the Grading Creation Tool, select the grading criteria to be edited and then select the Edit Current Selection:
From here this will open the Grading Criteria dialog box. To rename this option, you can go to the Information Tab:
On the Criteria tab, you can modify the specific parameters:
The same thing goes for the Surface Styles as well. Within the Surface Properties > Edit Current Selection:
This will bring up the Surface Style dialog box where you can specify how the surface is to be displayed. In your case with wanting the 3d option, go to the Display tab > View Direction > Model (isometric view):
This option will display the Tin Triangles when in an isometric view. To change how the Triangles are displayed, you can select from the View Options within the top left of the Model Space window:
Hi v-silvestre, thank you so much for your time in creating the excellent guide & input. Thank you again.
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