Feature Highlighting

Common Functionality User Guide

Model Editor : Feature Highlighting

After making a graphical selection in Model Editor mode, activating Feature Highlighting identifies features as the pointer passes over them in the graphical view.

Features are points, straight lines (edges), P-points or P-lines. Points are located at vertices on the model, such as the corner of a box, and at the mid-point of lines. Lines are straight edges on the model.

Note:

Design Aid graphics cannot be used as a feature.

To activate Feature Highlighting, on the 3D View tab, in the Model Editor group, select the Feature Highlighting check box. To de-activate Feature Highlighting, select the check box again.

Note:

Pressing the F key on the keyboard can be used to toggle feature identification on and off if it is pressed over the 3D View while in Model Editor mode.

Moving the mouse pointer over the 3D model without dragging the locator handle still highlights features. Pressing the right mouse button over a highlighted feature displays a menu that allows the Graphical Selection or the Locator Handle to be moved to the selected position.


Move Selection Here	Moves the selection to the location.
Move Handle Here	Moves the handle to the selection.
Cancel	Removes the menu options.

In order to select features of an item, it is necessary to move the mouse pointer over the item before features are shown. In most cases, the target P-point or P-line lies on, or inside, an item, so selecting a feature is straightforward. In the few cases where the P-point or P-line is outside of the item, or partly obscured by another item in the scene, it is necessary to make sure that the mouse pointer first passes over the associated item.

On steelwork items with P-lines, the JUSL P-line is shown as a feature.

Feature identification:

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The Locator Handle can be moved to features on selected or unselected items.

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The Graphical Selection cannot be moved to a reference point on selected items, because the selected items are shown in their new location when a reference point is found.