Draw a Surface Polygon

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Draw a Surface Polygon

To draw a surface polygon, you must proceed as the process of creating a regular polygon by defining first and subsequent points. By closing this polygon, an option enables to place the text displaying its surface to a defined location.

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$image\ebx_-726553584.gif$ HINT : Refer to chapter "Polygons and Solids" for all options concerning the creations of polygons.

Close the polygon (i.e. connect the current point to the first point) by pressing Enter.

When polygon is closed, a menu appears. Select the Surface Polygon option.

A text then appears under the cursor. Click on the position of the text, inside or outside the polygon. It indicates the polygon surface and is formatted according to the default parameters (See the following section: "Define the default surface text")

$image\ebx_1693072387.gif$ NOTE: All the commands of creating polygon shapes of \2pbox, \pcyl, etc… type also have this new option.

$image\ebx_1693072387.gif$ NOTE: The surface text is linked to the polygon. Selecting or changing the polygon affects its surface text in the same manner. It is however possible to delink the polygon text by selecting or deleting it.

$image\ebx_1693072387.gif$ NOTE: The Boolean operations and polygon editing can be applied on the surface polygons in which the text will be updated. During Boolean operations between two polygons having a surface text, the resulting text will be written in the first indicated polygon.