Cutting Plane Properties

Specifies the actor name. This name appears in the Collaboration or Assembly tree and is the default tooltip text.

Specifies the tooltip text that appears when you hover over the actor. The default is the actor name, but you can select a different property or meta-property, or type a text string. To type text, which itself can contain properties, select String and use the Tooltip string property.

Note: By default, labels attached to an actor display the actor's tooltip text. To change this behavior, modify the label's Text property.

(Available when Tooltip is String.) Specifies the tooltip text. Type your text, optionally with property keywords. For geometry actors, click to display the Text pane, where you can type multiple lines of text and more easily embed properties.

See Text pane for details on property keywords and the Text pane.

Enables the cutting plane. Toggling this option is useful when using cutting planes in animations.

Specifies the cutting plane opacity, between 0 (transparent) and 255 (opaque). When the opacity is less than 8, only a ruler can move the actor. To select the cutting plane, use the Collaboration pane.

Opacity = 0	Opacity = 255

Specifies the cutting plane color.

Green	Yellow

Specifies the cutting plane axis: X, Y, Z, X-, Y-, Z-, or User.

X-axis	Y-axis

Z-axis	User-defined

Specifies the depth of the cutting plane. You can also change depth by dragging cutting planes in the viewport.

Specifies the depth value.

Flips (inverses the cutting plane normal) automatically as you rotate the model.

Specifies the opacity (transparent = 0, opaque = 255) of the portion of the model in front of the cutting plane and the portion behind the cutting plane.

Front space opacity = 30 Back space opacity = 255

Note: These properties are available for a cutting plane when at most one cutting plane is visible. When 2 or more cutting planes are visible, select the Cutting planes parent node in the Collaboration pane and set Front space opacity and Back space opacity as needed.

Displays the cutting line.

Disabled	Enabled Color=Red

Note: In vector output, the width of cutting lines due to capping is computed by: Outline > Width (actor property) x Silhouette width (Technical Illustration - Lines) x Global line width(Technical Illustration - Lines). Cutting-line Thickness is ignored.

Note: You cannot override hatch-line color from the Technical Illustration workshop. To create vector output with black hatch lines, set Color to black.

Creates surfaces where the cutting plane intersects solid model geometry.

Disabled	Enabled

Caps surfaces using actor colors instead of the same color for all actors (as specified by Color).

Notes:

• This property requires an OpenGL extension. Ensure the HardwareSupport.Advanced setting (Application Preferences - Advanced Settings) is enabled. If this property is unavailable, your video card does not support this extension.
• Hatch and Keep actor color are not compatible. It is recommended that you select Lighted capping with Keep actor color , especially for merged cutting planes.

Disabled Color=Red	Enabled

Note: You cannot override capping color from the Technical Illustration workshop. To create vector output without capping color, set Color to white.

Notes:

• When Hatch by actor is selected, set hatch spacing for each actor using the actor's Hatch property.
• When Hatch by actor is cleared, set hatch line width and color using the Cutting line properties Thickness and Color.
• Hatch lines in vector output do not necessarily match what is displayed in the viewport. Vectorization creates hatch lines in 2D space whereas the viewport shows 3D space.

Enables different hatch spacing and angles for each geometry actor. After selecting this property, use Initialize spacing and Initialize angles to generate per-actor hatching and then optionally modify actor-specific Hatching properties. To have uniform hatching across the entire cutting plane, clear this property.

Notes:

• This property requires an OpenGL extension. Ensure the HardwareSupport.Advanced setting (Application Preferences - Advanced Settings) is enabled. If this property is unavailable, your video card does not support this extension.
• Hatching for each actor is computed separately, which can affect performance.
• Each actor has one set of hatching properties that apply to all cutting planes (with Hatch by actor selected) that intersect it.

Disabled	Enabled

Notes:

• Actors of the same size are assigned the same angle.
• Each slider position assigns different random hatch angles, but the assignments are always the same for a given position.
• Both the cutting plane and actor Angle properties affect hatch angles.

Specifies the actor name. This name appears in the Collaboration or Assembly tree and is the default tooltip text.

Specifies the tooltip text that appears when you hover over the actor. The default is the actor name, but you can select a different property or meta-property, or type a text string. To type text, which itself can contain properties, select String and use the Tooltip string property.

Note: By default, labels attached to an actor display the actor's tooltip text. To change this behavior, modify the label's Text property.

(Available when Tooltip is String.) Specifies the tooltip text. Type your text, optionally with property keywords. For geometry actors, click to display the Text pane, where you can type multiple lines of text and more easily embed properties.

See Text pane for details on property keywords and the Text pane.

Specifies the actor color.

Specifies the opacity, from 0 (transparent) to 255 (solid).

Makes the collaborative actor visible even when a geometry actor covers it.

Disabled	Enabled

Specifies the width, in millimeters, for the cutting line actor.

Specifies that Curve is the geometry type for cutting lines. Composer uses geometry types to determine certain actor behaviors.