When using The Geometry Toolbar, the Solid button () is available to toggle between drawing a solid object or an outline (or curve) instead of selecting an Object Type. See Geometry Drawing Toolbar Buttons for other drawing toolbar buttons.
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Select Table (the default) to specify the coordinates of the vertices in a table directly in the Settings window or load them from a file. Use the buttons underneath the table, or right-click in the table, to move and remove rows, insert a row above the selected rows, clear the table, and load and save table data.
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Select File to read vertex coordinate data from a text file where each row represents the x, y, and (in 3D) z coordinates for a vertex in the polygon. Specify the filename in the Filename field, or click the Browse button (). You can also click the downward arrow beside the Browse button and choose Browse From () to open the fullscreen Select File window. Click the downward arrow for the Location menu () to choose Show in Auxiliary Data () to move to the row for this file in the Auxiliary Data window, Copy Location (), and (if you have copied a file location) Paste Location (). The file must be a text file with the number of columns equal to the dimension of the geometry sequence and one row for each data point. The columns can be separated by space, tab, comma, or semicolon characters. The entries in the file should be numerical. In general, nonnumerical tokens and header lines are ignored. Click the Import to Table button to copy the file contents into the data point table and change the Data source to Table. Changes in the file do not automatically cause the polygon to be rebuilt. To rebuild the node after a change in the file, click the Rebuild with Current File button.
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Select Vectors to specify the coordinates of the vertices as vectors (lists) in the fields x, y, and z (3D only); r and z in 2D axial symmetry; xw and yw in work planes. Each field can contain a list of numbers or expressions containing parameters, separated with commas or spaces. Click the Range button () to use the Range dialog box for specifying the vector of values for each coordinate.
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