Mesh Display Options

The properties of all mesh data that SMS displays on the screen can be controlled through the mesh tab of the Display Options Dialog. This dialog is opened by right clicking on the Mesh Data entry in the Project Explorer and selecting the Display Options command. (It can also be accessed from the from the Display menu or the display options Macro.)

The entities associated with the mesh module with display options are shown below. Some of these entities also show an Options button to the right. For these entities, additional display controls are available. The available mesh display options include the following:

• Nodes

• Nodal BC

• Elements

• Functional Surface

• Contours

• Vectors

• Nodestrings

• Mesh Quality

• Mesh Boundary

• Materials

• Material Boundary

• Material Numbers

• Node Numbers

• Element Numbers

• Nodal Elevations

• Curved Mesh

• Wet/Dry Boundary

• Drogues

Model specific options

Each model may include other display options associated only with that model. These appear at the bottom of the display options dialog and include such things as 1D contour options for RMA2 and tidal ellipses for ADCIRC.