Customizing Surface Displays
Surfaces may be displayed in solid, transparent, and wire mesh forms. The surface display may be modified using the Display Format dialog’s Surface panel (accessed via the menu item and the equivalent button on the toolbar). The dialog format for a transparent surface is displayed below.
Customizing a Surface Display
Here we are modifying a transparent surface.
For transparent surfaces, the
slider varies the opacity of the transparent surface, and the checkbox causes the values in the midrange of the spectrum to become transparent (i.e., those close to zero).The remaining controls are present in the dialog for all surface types.
Defaults for surface properties can be set via the Display Format Preferences’ Surface panel, which contains the same controls.