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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Object Display</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Use the Edit&rarr;Object Display option to modify the layer, color, font, width, grid count, translucency, and shading status of existing objects.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Option</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Description</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Layer</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies the layer, 1 through 256, on which to place selected objects. A zero (0) indicates &quot;No Change&quot;, regardless of the number of objects picked and the layer(s) on which they reside.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Color</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Changes the color of the selected objects. For details about adding colors to assemblies and their components, see the Assemblies Help&rarr;Introduction and Concepts&rarr;Component Properties&rarr;Assembly Page.</p>
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                           <p class="para_note_body">For more information on component color, see the Componenet Properties page in the Assemblies Help.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Line Font</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Changes the font of curves such as solid, dashed, phantom, etc. Does not affect text fonts.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Width</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Opens the Select by Attribute dialog which displays various types of curves for the Line Font. Located in the Class Selection Tool. Width changes the width of existing objects. Thin Width is one pixel wide, Normal Width is two pixels wide, and Thick Width is three pixels wide.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Grid Count - U Grid Count - V</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Modifies surface grid count by changing the number of grid curves in the U and V directions. The current U and V curve counts are displayed only when one surface is selected.</p>
               <p class="para_td">Grid Count applies only to solid body faces. It is not possible to set face grids on occurrences of solid body faces.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Apply to all faces</p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Edit Object Display dialog has a toggle button named Apply to All Faces. &nbsp;This option works with solid bodies that have some of its faces with any of these display attributes:</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Color</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Grid Count - U</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Grid Count - V</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Translucency</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Partially Shaded</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Face Analysis</p>
                     <p class="para_item">The face attributes may change by either an Edit or possibly by enheriting from a translator.</p>
                     <p class="para_item">Simple example of how it works:</p>
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                           <p class="para_item">&nbsp;Create a BLOCK feature using the color GREEN.</p>
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                           <p class="para_item">&nbsp;Edit the TOP face using the following steps;</p>
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                           <p class="para_item">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Edit -&rarr; Object Display -&rarr; Type -&rarr; Face -&rarr; select the TOP face -&rarr; [OK] -&rarr; [OK].</p>
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                           <p class="para_item">&nbsp;Select the color box, change the color to RED, or any other color and Apply.</p>
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                           <p class="para_item">&nbsp;MB3 &rarr; Rendering Style &rarr; Shaded.</p>
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                           <p class="para_item">&nbsp;Your display of the BLOCK should be GREEN, with the TOP face RED, or the color you had selected. Now do steps (A) and (B) below.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">(A) Select All Faces toggled OFF.</p>
               <p class="para_td">Edit -&rarr; Object Display -&rarr; Select ALL (selects only the body) -&rarr; [OK] -&rarr; select</p>
               <p class="para_td">the color box -&rarr; select WHITE-&rarr; [Apply].</p>
               <p class="para_td">Notice that all of the faces on the solid body have change to WHITE, except the face that has been edited. It recognised that it has a different color display attribute from the Solid body color display attribute and ignores the edit for that face.</p>
               <p class="para_td">(B) Select All Faces toggled ON.</p>
               <p class="para_td">Edit -&rarr; Object Display -&rarr; Select ALL (selects only the body) -&rarr; [OK] -&rarr; &nbsp;Toggle [ON] Select All Faces -&rarr; select the color box -&rarr; select BLUE -&rarr; [Apply].</p>
               <p class="para_td">Notice that all of the faces on the solid body have change to BLUE. All of the face color display attributes have been changed to match the solid body color display attribute.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_objdsp_translucency_r.html');return(false);">Translucency</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Controls the amount of light passing through selected objects.</p>
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                           <p class="para_note_body">For more information on translucency, see the Componenet Properties page in the Assemblies Help.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_objdsp_partshaded_r.html');return(false);">Partially Shaded</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Sets the partial shade attribute for the selected bodies and/or faces.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Face Analysis</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies whether to change the Face Analysis attribute to on or off. Assuming that you select faces, determines whether or not they display in Face Analysis rendering style.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_objdsp_inheritobject_r.html');return(false);">Inherit</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Sets object properties to those of an existing object.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_objdsp_rehiobjs_r.html');return(false);">Re-highlight Objects</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Tries different combinations of options on the selected objects.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('managing_a_part/edt_objdsp_selnewobjs_r.html');return(false);">Select New Objects</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Modifies additional objects from the Edit Object Display dialog. </p>
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