Selection

Highlight

Sets the type of highlight applied when selecting objects.

When you select the whole part:

Standard applies a very basic highlight.
Glow applies a halo and a transparency effect.
Polite makes visible and hidden faces clearly visible.
Glow Polite is a mix of Glow and Polite. It applies a halo, a contour, and two transparency effects to make visible and hidden faces clearly visible.

When you select a face:

Standard does not fully render the hidden face, and only its edges are visible.
Glow renders visible and hidden faces the same way with a halo and a transparency effect.
Polite renders hidden elements with a transparency effect.
Glow Polite renders visible and hidden faces with a halo and two different transparency effects for visible and hidden parts.

When you select edges:

Standard renders edges with the color specified through the Selected edges option.
Glow renders edges with a halo effect.
Polite renders edges with an increased thickness, and hidden edges are transparent.
Glow Polite renders edges with a halo effect.

Specifies the type of prehighlight to apply when preselecting objects.

When you preselect faces and edges:

XOR renders the contour of the preselected face with a stipple pattern.
Glow renders the contour of the preselected face, if visible.
Polite renders hidden edges with a transparency effect.
Glow Polite is similar to Glow. It renders the contour of the preselected face with an increased thickness.

Preselected elements: Sets the color of preselected elements.
Preselected element linetype: Sets the linetype used to display preselected elements.

Preselect in geometry view: Activates preselection highlighting. .
Preselection navigator after ... second(s): Sets the amount of time, in seconds, which elapses before the preselection navigator appears when pointing at an object.
Highlight in geometry view: Activates highlighting in the work area.
Highlight faces and edges: Controls the way faces and edges are prehighlighted and highlighted.
Display manipulation bounding box: When clicking an object (either in the 3D area, or in the tree), displays a bounding box around the selected object if it uses handles.
Limit display of handles to ... element(s): Specifies a limit on the number of elements in multiselection mode (using the selection trap) on which handles can be displayed.
Display immersive list for preselection navigator: Displays the list of all the elements you can preselect when using the preselection navigator.
Display auxiliary viewer for preselection navigator: Displays a viewer showing the preselected object when using the preselection navigator.
Prehighlight faces for preselection navigator: Highlights the faces you preselect using the preselection navigator.
Display immersive viewer for preselection navigator: Displays the immersive viewer when using the preselection navigator.
Activate highlight of hidden objects: Highlights hidden objects you select.
Activate prehighlight of hidden objects: Highlights hidden objects you preselect.