Scene Axes Settings
The Scene Axes settings section allows you to enable showing axes information, unit's labels and compass symbol on the PDF file.
To enable Scene Axes settings
Click on the Scene Axes tab.
- The first section is the General parameters, here you can enable X/Y/Z axis annotation line, tics and labels by clicking the corresponding checkboxes. It is possible to enable showing the unit's labels from those axes as well. In Addition, the Scalebar option adds a chess-board black and white border design to any enabled axis.
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The Axes options control which axes are generated with a choice of any combination of X, Y, Z in your full 3D scene. Axes are most often used in geospatial context, and less often for general 3D models. To improve usability, when PDF3DReportGen first starts, the X, Y, Z and Scalebar options are turned off. When you start to load data files in the Input file list, the first time any geospatial type is noticed, the axes selection will be switched to X=true, Y=true, Z=false, Scalebar=true, as most common settings for geospatial data. Thereafter, as soon as you touch any of these controls by hand, or reload a state file, your choices will be respected and further file loading of any type will not change them. Units may optionally be shown next to the numerical labels.
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The Scalebar option controls the style of display. Normal is a simple line, with small tic lines and labels. If scalebar is enabled, the display style is upgraded to a chess-board style black and white scalebar set just inside from the boundary labels. The scalebar and tic label boundaries are set to whole numbers where possible, such as 10,20,30, or 2,4,6, or 100,150,200,250 etc. The actual data minimum and maximum are shown also for clarity at the extreme ends of the axes.
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Minimal Number of Labels per axes, allows adjustment for how many floating text labels are shown along each of the major axes. This is helpful if labels overlap. The actual number of labels will vary due to numerical rounding to whole number boundaries.
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The Axes Elevation parameter determines the height at which the axes will be positioned relative to the 3D model, normally it is set near data minimum (0.0), with 1.0. near the top extent as a linear proportion.
- North Compass -The normal Adobe corner axes shows small arrow lines with "X", "Y", "Z" labels. Note that if this Y+Up transformation is applied to the root scene node, these will not longer represent the correct labels. Enabling the "North Compass" corner annotation will avoid confusion if you have geospatial data. The effect of this transformation is on actual 3D model coordinate space, it does not control camera views. Specifying Compass will replace the default axes with a north compass symbol in the lower left corner of the view.