Analyze

 

 

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This command allows to analyze an element by picking or when moving the cursor over the elements.

 

Creation stages / Use:

 

This command can be launched by clicking on the icon, or by hitting the F8 key, or by selecting the Analyze > Analyze... command from the drop-down menu.

 

  1. Select an element or check the Dynamic option to display the analyze in a tooltip.

  2. In the Categories area, choose the information to display in the Result area.

 

 

 

For more complex entities, you can use the Shift key to analyze the higher-level elements (segment -> sketch, edge -> shape, face -> shape…)

 

 

Available options:

 

 

 

This options allows to make the analysis when moving the cursor over the elements and display the result in a tooltip.

However, when this mode is checked, you can pick an element in order to display its information in the Result area.

 

 

 

Function: allows to display the parameter of a function provided by the element.

Property: when a part has been selected, it allows to display the author, the material characteristics, the physical properties of the element.

Information : allows to display the description and the comment entered with the Information command.

Attribute: allows to display the color (RVB), the linetype, the layer, the transparency et the rendering type of the element.

Topology: allows to display the element type (vertex, edge, face,...) of the element and its characteristics (number of vertex, loops, edges,...).

Geometry: allows to display the geometry type of the element and its dimensions (coordinates, length, radius, diameter, aperture angle,...).

Extent: allows to display the size of the enclosing box of the element.

 

 

By default, dimensions are indicated according to the absolute frame.

If you want to make an analysis according to a specific frame, you have to hook the compass on this frame.

 

 

 

 

Accuracy: allow to define the number of digit to display, enter a value between 0 to 10.

Display length unit: allows to display or hide the lenght unit in the Geometry and Extent categories.

 

Modifications / Additional information:

 

You can copy the information from the Result area in order to paste them into another application.

During the analysis of a shape (solid or surface), the number of shells corresponds to the internal and external area of the shape. Then, a simple solid block have contains 2 shells whereas a surface have one shell only. The number of facets corresponds to the number of graphical facets, these facets are triangular facets. For example, during the facettisation of a simple block, the rectangular facets are made of 2 triangular faces, so it has 12 facets.