Displaying highlighting

When you select entities to modify, the program can highlight them using a dashed line pattern or a glow effect. This highlight disappears when you finish modifying the entities or when the entities are cleared.

Sometimes highlighting entities can take a considerable amount of time, and you may want to improve overall program performance by turning highlighting off.

To turn highlighting on and off

   1   Do one of the following to choose Drawing Settings ():

    On the ribbon, choose Application button > Drawing Utilities; Home > Drawing Settings (in Utilities); or Tools > Drawing Settings (in Manage).

    On the menu, choose Tools > Drawing Settings.

    On the Tools toolbar, click the Drawing Settings tool.

    Type highlight, press Enter, and then in the prompt box, choose On or Off.

   2   Click the Display tab.

   3   Click the secondary Display tab.

   4   Choose from the following options:

    Highlight selected entities Displays selected entities highlighted in a dashed line. When unchecked, selected entities remain unchanged.

    Selection effect Displays selected entities with a glowing highlight instead of a dashed line. This option only applies if Highlight Selected Entities is turned on. The glowing highlight effect applies only when the graphics device is set to OpenGL ES.

    5    Click OK.