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GeoPlan Properties And Themes - Visual page

This page controls visual effects on the GeoPlan window such as selection colour, hill shading settings, theme keys and theme graphic quality.

This page is opened by selecting Tools | Properties & Themes, then clicking the Visual tab.

GeoPlan Properties and Themes - Visual page

Option

Description

Selection Colours

This section is used to change the selection colour of objects displayed in the GeoPlan window.

Network

Selection colour is used to highlight all selected objects in network views.

Properties

Selection colour is used to highlight objects for which properties are viewed. When the properties for a network object are displayed, the object will be momentarily highlighted using this colour.

GIS Layer

Selection colour is used to highlight objects found using the Find on Geoplan tool on the Find Objects dialog.
Theme Keys

Change themes shown in key window

Allows you to specify en masse which of the layer themes are to be shown in the Thematic Key window.

Change themes shown in print legend

Allows you to specify en masse which of the layer themes are to be shown in the printed legend.

Hide Theme layers without objects

When ticked, indicates that if no object of a particular type exists in the network, the legend for it (of the type symbol - object type) will be hidden in the Thematic Key and printed legend.

Graphic Quality

This slider governs the switching between two different types of Microsoft Graphics Device Interface, GDI and GDI+ (see Options - General Page for other GDI+ settings) which are responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. Compared to GDI, which draws faster, GDI+ takes longer to draw but it has the advantage of supporting anti-aliasing, transparency, gradient shading and modern graphics file formats.

The switch is based on the number of objects to be drawn and the slider adjusts the threshold. Middle values for the slider should be preferred as these represent a trade-off between speed and graphic quality.

Note that in GDI mode, lines or symbols with very low visibility will not be drawn. For large networks, when displaying themes that use a range of visibility settings, set the Graphic Quality to a higher setting to view transparency effects (may affect drawing speed).
Misc

Show ground level in coordinates panel

Check the box to display ground level on the Status Bar when there is a Ground Model loaded in the GeoPlan.

Show triangles in TIN ground models

Check the box to display the outlines of the underlying triangles that make up a TIN ground model.
Always show selected objects Shows objects that are selected on the GeoPlan, even if they would not be shown because of the zoom level.
Enable/Disable Multiple Themes This lets you disable all the themes that have been set up for the type(s) of object listed. Examples: all themes set up for nodes, or all themes set up for live data symbols.
Other controls See GeoPlan Properties And Themes dialog.

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