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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Visualization Preferences Dialog</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">This dialog controls attributes that affect the display in the graphics window.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Some attributes are associated with the part or with particular views in the part. The settings for these attributes are saved in the part file. For many of these attributes, when a new part or view is created, the setting is initialized to a value specified in the customer defaults file.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Other attributes are associated with the session and apply to all parts in the session. The settings of some of these attributes are saved from session to session in the registry. For some session attributes, the setting can be initialized to the value specified by customer default, an environment variable, or an X resource.</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"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_nmbdr_t.html');return(false);">Names/Borders</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies display attributes of object names and controls the display of view names and borders.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_line_t.html');return(false);">Line</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies display properties of lines, curves, and edges, including font and width attributes and the tolerance used to compute displayed curves from model data.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_specfx_t.html');return(false);">Special Effects</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Controls fog effects or enables stereoscopic viewing for the work view.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_screen_t.html');return(false);">Screen</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Calibrates the physical dimensions of the monitor screen. Also sets the fit percentage, the portion of the view occupied by the model after a fit operation.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_visual_t.html');return(false);">Visual</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies how objects in a view are visualized. Controls shading, silhouettes and the appearance of hidden and smooth edges, translucency, and other attributes.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Faceting</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies tolerances and other options used to compute facet geometry from model data. </p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_clrset_t.html');return(false);">Color Settings</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Selects colors that are used for special purposes, including selection colors, the dim color used to display objects off the work plane, and the dim color used to display non-work parts in an assembly.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Color Palette</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Modifies the colors used to display the part in the graphics window.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('customizing_nx/prf_vis_per_t.html');return(false);">Perspective</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies front and back clipping planes and enables perspective projection for the work view.</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Options may be unavailable if they are unsupported or if they are not applicable to the current display.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">If no part is open, then all options are unavailable except for the Color Palette, and Screen options.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When a drawing is displayed, the Visual, Faceting, Perspective, and Special Effects options are unavailable.</p>
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