More about Displaying Geometric Information On Elements

This topic provides you with the additional information you may need when displaying geometric information on the elements using the Geometric Information command.

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Displaying Geometric Information On Elements


  • You can use Geometric Information command in conjunction with another command. For example, while you are editing an element using its control points, you can activate the Geometric Information command. The control point command is frozen, and when you exit Geometric Information, you are returned to the control point command.
  • Only geometry of topological cells is analyzed, therefore an element such as a cloud of points, for example, will not be analyzed.

  • The geometry type is categorized as follows:

    Geometry Type What is it ?
    NupbsCurve Non Uniform polynomial B-Spline Curve
    NupbsSurface Non Uniform polynomial B-Spline Surface
    NurbsCurve Non Uniform Rational B-Spline Curve
    NurbsSurface Non Uniform Rational B-Spline Surface
    PNupbs Parametric non rational curve on a surface
    PNurbs Rational parametric curve
    PSpline Parametric curve on a surface
    PLine Isoparametric curve on a surface
    Line Line or line segment
    Plane Plane or planar face
    Cylinder Cylinder
    Helix Helix
    FilletSurface Procedural Fillet surface
    SweepSurface Procedural Sweep surface
    Tabulated Cylinder Procedural Extrude surface
    IntCurve Intersection curve, that is resulting from the intersection of two surfaces
    MergedCurve The aggregate of two curves with different limits or parameterizations