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RESOLUTION Command

The resolutions can be set on the Line Drawing Dialog invoked from the Graphics Menu.

RESOlution { N | User_units X}

Parameters to control the resolution for line drawing.

RESOlution N

Set to N or Display the line plot resolutions for both straight (MX) and curved (MLX) lines generated by line drawings (DRAW and RDRAW ). Lines representing body boundaries or intersections are broken up into this many segments before testing segments for visibility.

The default values are 80 points for each type of line. Each may be set separately with the MX and MLX commands.

RESOlution User_units X

Lines (straight and curved) are broken up into pieces of length X. The division will be adjusted if the number of pieces is greater than MX (or MLX ) or less than 0.4 ( MX (or 0.4 ( MLX).

The current values are printed if no arguments are given.

Meaningful for line DRAWing mode only.