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# Dimension & Display Options

## View Options

* **Show Reference Lines** - Toggle visibility of reference lines
* **Member Label options** - Choose how to label Webs and all other member types
* **Show Field-Installed Members** - Toggle visibility of field-installed members
* **Show Plates** - Toggle visibility of plates
* **Show Plate Names** - Choose whether to show the names of each plate in its label
* **Show Plate Details** - Choose what additional information to show in plate labels
* **Color By** - Choose whether or not to color similar members and what criteria to use for coloring
  * **Worst Capacity - All Load Cases** - Color component objects that have been analyzed according to their highest capacity check result
  * **Lumber Properties** - Color the component's members based on their material types (i.e. lumber grade and treatment type)
  * **Lumber Geometry** - Color the component's members based on their shapes (i.e. lumber size and cuts)
  * **No Coloring** - Show the default colors for all members
* **Dimension Snaps** - Toggle midline, centroid, intersection, and vertex snaps for Dimension Mode
* **Dimension Detail**
  * Minimal includes dimensions for the overall length, chases, and end conditions
  * General includes includes dimensions for the overall length and splices for all trusses, plus chases and end conditions for feature pattern trusses
  * Detailed includes a dimension for every member and feature of the component
* **Dimension Labels** - Choose whether to see cumulative dimension values, independent dimension values or both at once
* **Show Pitch** - Choose whether to label top chords with their pitches
* **Show selected member's cut angles** - Choose whether to display the cut angles at the end of a member when it is selected
* **Show selected member's length** - Choose whether to display a member's length next to the member when it is selected


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