The View tab
in the Blind Data Editor shows the
data assigned to the lead component or object for all blind data
types defined in your scene.
View
the actual blind data values on components
- Select
the component or mesh.
- Select
Window > General Editors >
Blind Data Editor.
- Click
the View tab.
The Name of the key component or object is at
the top of the tab, followed by columns indicating the blind data
ID, the name of each attribute and its value. If there is no data
assigned to the component for a particular template the value is
blank.
Visualize blind data with color
- Select
the component or mesh.
- Select
Window > General Editors >
Blind Data Editor.
- Click
the Color/Query tab.
Each row of controls can assign a color to different
blind data.
- Turn
on the checkbox to the left of a row to activate the row.
- Click
the color swatch at the end of the row to edit the color.
- Press
in the Tag/ID field
to choose a template.
When the center checkbox is off, the color will
simply show on any component that has this blind data template.
- To
further refine the display, turn on the center checkbox.
- Do
one of the following:
- To
show this color for any blind data which match certain values, set
the pop-up menu to Discrete Value and enter values
for each attribute.
- To
show this color for any blind data within a range of values, set
the pop-up menu to Discrete Range, and enter a
range in the form [low,high] for each
attribute.
- To
show continuous shading based on blind data values, set the pop-up menu
to Continuous, and for each attribute
specify the minimum and maximum values and shades.
- Click
the Apply button at the bottom
of the window.
Notes
- Although
you can examine multiple types of blind data at one time, you are
only allowed one type of Color/Query action.
The possible types are:
- Binary:
either the data is assigned or not
- Discrete:
either a discrete value or discrete range
- Continuous:
use grayscale values for coloring
- Hex:
use bit operations on the values
If you have rows with different types, the operation
will fail.
Association type and selection type are also
important in this regard. If all the rows have templates tied to
a particular association, your selection is converted to this selection
type. If, however, any of the rows have Any as the Association
Type, or if the rows do not match (one row’s blind data has Face Association
Type and another’s Association Type is Vertex),
the selection will not be converted and the components and objects
selected are queried or colored in their present state.
- Blind
Data false coloring does not show up in lighting mode.
Use Default Lights to see the Blind data false
color.
