Thick Line

Thick Line

The "thick" symbols can make it easier to see beams in plots that contain a lot of lines, although they are slower to draw. The nominal dimensions in the boxes below are calculated as a %age of the overall model diagonal length, and they may require adjustment to give sensibly sized symbols for very asymmetrical models.

The "thick" line used will depend upon whether or not a .ZTF file has been read in from PRIMER.

• If it has been read then the beam's "true" section thickness will be used.
• If no such file has been read a square section of the "Thickness" given here will be used.

Continuous-tone beam plots show the data values on a beam as thick bars of solid colour along the beam centre-line. The thickness of these bars is set by default to 1% of the model's longest dimension (in model space units), which proves adequate for most models.

The figure below demonstrates the effect of changing this value by a factor of 3.