Controlling the Representation of Holes

Holes may be represented realistically, with color shaded inner surfaces, and may be ‘seen through’. To control the appearance of holes, use the commands

EXPORTHOLEs ON
HOLEs OFF(default)
HOLEs SOLID

EXPORT HOLES SOLID represents holes as solids in color 1, which by default is black. Solid holes cannot be seen through.

The state of the hole settings may be queried using

Q EXPORT HOLES

Note: Since holes are constructed using facets which involve a large amount of geometric data, switching holes ‘on’ will increase the computational overhead when processing. The more holes in the model, the longer the model file will take to generate, and the more slowly it will be drawn in Review.

Note that other representation settings, such as Tube, Centerline, Obstruction, Insulation and Drawing Level, are taken from the current Model settings.