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Topographies tab

Grid to list the topographical surfaces loaded in the site. The colour of each surface can be set by clicking the Colour cell

Tab menu

  Icon Description
1 Topographies visibility Toggle visibility of all topographical surfaces.
2 Image visibility

Toggle visibility of any loaded aerial images.
3 Topography gloss

Toggle application of gloss highlight to the topographical surface.
Gloss highlights sunlit areas to enhance low relief areas.
4 Mined out surface visibility Toggle visibility of mined out surfaces.
5 Key edges Toggle visibility of topographic surface key edges.
6 Visualisation settings Opens the Topography Visualisation Settings dialog.
7 Opacity Adjusts the opacity of topography and aerial image overlays.

Search - Search box (right hand side of tab) to filter the grid rows on, applies fuzzy text search across all fields in the grid.

Visualisation Settings

The key edges and mined out surface rendering is adjusted with this control.

Field Description
Mode

The colour of the key edges:

  • Based on Face Colour (default).

  • Custom - Select the colour from the Default Colour drop-down list.
Default Colour Active when Mode property is set to Custom.
Style  The style applied to the key edges, defaults to Solid.
Size The thickness of the key edges, defaults to 1.
Size Units

The size unit to apply to the Size property, defaults to Pixels.

  • Scale Factor - 1 for thinnest line possible, 2 for twice as thick and so on.

  • Model Units - Fixed size, units used by the site. See XECUTE Config > Site Management > sitename> Unit System.

  • Points - Approx 1.3 pixels to a point.

  • Pixels - display unit pixels.
Appearance

The display style for Mined Out Area faces.

  • Solid Colour - The colour selected in the Colour property will be applied to mined out area.

  • Repeating Image- The image selected in the Image property will be applied to mined out areas and tiled to cover the area.
Colour Colour of mined out face, active if Appearance is set to Solid Colour.
Gloss Toggle Gloss effect when Appearance is set to Solid Colour.
Texture Scale The scale applied to image textures, 100 = native image scale. Defaults to 200.
Image Preview of the applied image. Click the ... button to load a custom image or click Textures to use system images.
Normal Map User-loaded normal map file to customise surface highlights.