General Preferences > Colors and Styles > Highlight and Select

Access: Invoke this function from one of the following locations:

Select the Preferences button from the Quick Access Toolbar, or
Select Tools > Main Tools > Preferences from the menu bar.

Navigate to General > Colors and Styles.

Set the colors that are used to define Highlight and Select operations within Cimatron, and use the opacity level to set full-face highlighting or edge-only highlighting. Setting the opacity to zero will turn full-face highlighting off, resulting only in edge highlighting.

The Highlight & Select area is displayed.

Interaction

Set the colors that are used to define Highlight and Select operations, and set the opacity of highlighted faces.

Highlight

Select a color to highlight an area when you move the mouse cursor over an area that is not selected.

Select

Select a color to show an area as selected (when you pick it).

Highlight & Select

Select a color to highlight a previously selected area when you move the mouse cursor over it.

Highlight Face Opacity

Set the opacity level of highlighted (selected) geometry. Setting the opacity to zero will turn full-face highlighting off, resulting only in edge highlighting.

Slider range: 0 to 100.
Default = 80.

Examples:Examples:

In the examples below, the top face of the assembly plate is highlighted. Different parameter settings and their results are shown.

Highlight Face Opacity = 0	Highlight Face Opacity = 80

Highlight Glow

Set the glow level of highlighted (selected) geometry.

Slider values: 0, 25, 50, 75, 100.
Default = 75.

For example, if the color parameters were set as follows:

Highlight

An area is highlighted when you move the mouse cursor over an area that is not selected.

This is shown by the surface with the green border.

Select

An area is selected when you pick it.

This is shown by the red surface.

Highlight & Select

An area is highlighted and selected when you move the mouse cursor over a previously selected area.

This is shown by the red surface with the cyan border.

Press the appropriate approval option.

Some functionality may be dependent on the product package. Contact your Reseller if you require a license.