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CAESAR II Users Guide

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Sometimes it is necessary to limit the amount of information displayed on the screen. This may be useful when the model is large, or if it has many similar looking branches.

Find - Displays a specific element in the view. This command displays a dialog box that allows you to specify the From and To nodes for which you want to search. For more information, see Find Node.

3D Cutting Plane - Defines the cutting plane for the model. This option is useful when trying to emphasize a specific element. In many cases, the elements or node numbers are not defined consecutively. Because of this, it may be easier to cut a portion of the model at a certain location to see more details.

When the cutting plane displays, use the handles to move and or rotate the planes. If cutting the plane's handles are not visible, or the display goes blank, use the Zoom command to expand the view. To disable the cutting plane, select the command again.

This command can be used along any of the three axes.

Range - Displays only the elements that contain nodes within a range. This is helpful when you need to locate specific nodes or a group of related elements in a large model. This command displays the Range dialog box. Alternatively, press U.

For more information, see Range.

Line Numbers - Displays the Line Numbers pane which allows graphical editing of line numbers. You can do the following from this pane.

Assign a new line number to the block of elements that have been selected on the 3D graphical display.

Remove an existing line number.

Set and reset visibility options to hide and unhide elements.

Assign a color to an individual line number.

To reassign one or more elements from one line number to another existing line number, simply drag-and-drop (move) the elements between existing Line Numbers in the Line Numbers pane.

When you click the Line Number name in the Line Number pane, the corresponding elements are highlighted in the 3D pane and are selected to perform Block operations.

For more information, see Line Numbers.