Surface

For information on freehand transformation, see Freehand Transform.

The Point Z from Attribute tool displays a selected attribute as height Z. To set this, proceed as follows:

1. On the Surface context sensitive ribbon tab, in the Edit group, select Point Z from Attribute. A new panel will appear.

2. Select the attribute you wish to display as height from the Attribute drop-down.

3. Click OK.

To crop a surface by a polygon, follow these steps:

1. Select the surface you wan to crop.

2. Go to Surface context sensitive ribbon tab > Edit group > Crop Surface by Polygon.

3. Using the middle mouse button, drag and drop the objects or facet networks you wish to crop into the Surface field.

4. Create or select a polygon to use as the cropping boundary.

   

5. Using the middle mouse button, drag and drop the polygon into the Polygon field. The projected polygon boundary is displayed in grey.

6. Choose to keep the object fragments inside or outside of the polygon.

7. Select Crop a copy to keep the original data and crop a copy of the data.

Uniform colour shades the entire surface a uniform colour.
To apply uniform colour to an object:

1. Select the surface to be coloured.

2. Go to Surface context sensitive ribbon tab > Colour group > Uniform (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+U)

3. Left click on the swatch to select a colour. Double-click to display an advanced colour picker.