Reviewing the Model Mesh

You can specify a rendering mode that displays the mesh on top of the model's surface to verify the quality of the mesh.

This rendering mode provides dedicated options for visualizing the surface and the mesh. Three options are available for the surface including flat color, material shading, density shading, and a color option for the mesh. You can combine all of them.

Important: The Mesh Review command is disabled in the structure view.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Run the Experience Models Preparation app on a model that contains at least a representation.

Use Flat Color Option

You can customize both mesh color and surface color.

By default, the Flat color option is selected.

  1. From the Data Preparation section of the action bar, click Mesh Review.
  2. In the Render Mode area, click the colored square to select either the mesh or the surface.
    The color picker appears.

  3. Select the color.

The color is applied to the mesh and/or the surface. In the following example, the surface is yellow-colored and the mesh blue-colored.



Use Material Shading

You can enable the shading rendering style to visualize the surface.

  1. From the Data Preparation section of the action bar, click Mesh Review.
  2. Select the Material option.
    The surface is visualized with the Shading with Material rendering style.
    Note: For more information, see Basic Viewing Commands.
  3. Optional: To change the mesh color, click the Mesh square.

Use Density Shading

You can apply a density shading to the surface to visualize the triangle repartition.

  1. From the Data Preparation section of the action bar, click Mesh Review.
  2. Select the Density option.
  3. Select one of the following modes:
    • Uniform
    • Proportional

    For more information, see Triangle Density Shading Method.

    The density shading is applied to the entire model. The triangle density is determined for each representation of the model. The representations are colored from red to green according the respective triangle density.
    UniformProportional