Display Modes

Point

Sampling

Defines the percentage of the points to be displayed.

By default, Sampling is set to 100%.

Colored

Applies to clouds of points that contain color information for each point (for example imported from an Ascii RGB file).
Select Colored to display the points in the color contained in the Ascii RGB file.
Clear Colored to use colors defined in the Graphic Properties menu.

By default, Colored is selected.

Symbol

Applies to clouds of points that contain symbol information for each point.
Select Symbol to display the points with the symbols contained in the imported file.
Clear Symbol to use the symbols defined in the Graphic Properties menu.

By default, Symbol is selected.

Scan (Polyline) or Grid

Select required options:

Segment: Displays scans or grids as segments.
By default, Segment is selected.
Point: Displays scans or grids as points.
By default, Point is not selected.

Vector

Select required options:

Vector: Displays vectors as such.
By default, Vector is selected.
Origin: Displays the vectors by their origin.
By default, Origin is not selected.

Mesh

Select required options:

Vertex

Displays the vertices of a mesh, for a lighter display.

By default, Vertex is not selected.

Triangles

Displays the mesh as triangles.

By default, Triangles is not selected.

Free Edges

Displays the free edges in yellow.

Note: The free edges displayed are those of the complete cloud of points:

If you activate only a portion of a cloud of points, the free edges of that portion are not displayed.
If you remove a portion of a cloud of points, the free edges of the remaining portion are displayed.

By default, Free Edges is not selected.

Nonmanifold Edges

Displays the non-manifold facets and their vertices in bold white lines. If you choose the display of triangles, the triangles accepting a non-manifold edge have their edges displayed as regular white lines.

By default, Non-manifold Edges is not selected.

Flat or Smooth

Displays the mesh either as flat or smooth.

Note: You cannot combine Flat and Smooth.

By default, Smooth is selected, Flat is not.

Light Visualization

Activate light visualization of meshes

Activates the light visualization mode of the mesh when the number of triangles exceeds the specified value.

Notes:

This mode applies only to a mesh visualization.
The light visualization mode improves performance, but degrades the visualization quality.

By default, Activate light visualization of meshes is not selected.

Dynamic Display

Dynamic display of information: Activates the dynamic display of information.
By default, Dynamic display of information is not selected.

Highlight mode

Bounding Box: Switches the highlight to the bounding box of the clouds of points or meshes.
By default, Bounding Box is not selected.

Optimized mode

On: Activates the Optimized mode which is mandatory to see colors in meshes and scans.
Note: Optimized mode also improves performance when you use clouds of points with colors, but is not mandatory in this case.

By default, On is not selected.

Back and front mode

On: Activates the Back and front mode which is mandatory to see meshes with a different color for the front and the back side. It requires that the Shading with Material mode is on too.
By default, On is not selected.