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Collapsed Meshes
In collapsed meshes, the data is shown on planes (or cylinders for radial collapse in RZT meshes) at the center of the cells in the specified direction rather than 3D cells. For X collapse, for example, the planes lie along constant values of X. The mode is useful when the data is essentially 2 dimensional, such as in This Figure. The original mesh for that figure extends to the full height of the outlined box. This Figure
shows a cylindrical mesh collapsed in the theta direction. Unlike data planes, the position of the plane displaying the data cannot be changed. The Auto mode chooses the direction with the least number of mesh lines. Nonaligned XYZ meshes cannot be collapsed. Cell picking is not yet enabled for collapsed meshes. Mesh collapsing is useful for very large meshes when 3D graphics performance is an issue. Collapsed meshes require fewer graphics primitives to render than the full mesh resulting in improved 3D performance.
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