Scale Bar Dialog

This dialog box is used to control the drawing of scale bars in most image windows and in the model view window. The length of a bar is automatically set to a round number (usually, 1, 2 or 5 times a power of time) in the units of the pixel size defined in the model header. The dialog is opened from the Edit menu of the 3dmod Informoation window, or from the View menu of the Model View window when the program is started as 3dmodv.

The settings in this windows are stored between invocations of 3dmod along with the user preferences, rather than in a model file. The settings are:

At the bottom of the dialog appears a list of actual scale bar lengths in whatever windows are open. Values are shown for the most recently active (top) Zap, Slicer, and Multi-Z windows, as well as for the XYZ and Model View windows if they are open.

Montage snapshots: You should not need to adjust the scale bar properties if you want to take a high-resolution montage snapshot of the Zap or Model View windows. Scale bar size and indentation are automatically scaled up by the montaging factor so that the bar will appear proportionally the same in the snapshot as in the original window. In each case, the actual length of the scale bar for the montage is printed on the terminal, since it is possible that the length would be different from that in the original window.

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