The Marker menu contains commands for managing markers and fitting surfaces to existing sets of markers. Also see the section Working with Markers on page 68 for more detailed explanation of commands.

The Add Marker command is used when you wish to place a reference marker in the Body Plan, Profile, Plan or Markers windows.

This is used when you wish to delete a marker from the Markers window or from the Body Plan, Profile or Plan windows.

This command generates markers from the ruling lines on the developable surfaces and is only available if the design contains surfaces with surface type “Developable”.

Also see:

NURBS Surface on page 80 for more information about developable surfaces

Fit Surface to Markers on page 207 for information on how to use the Fit Surface to Markers command to lock the surface edges and fit the internal surface to the markers generated from the ruling lines.

This command will generate the grid (sections, buttocks and waterlines) based on the marker data and also associate markers with the correct marker station index. Sections are generated at the markers’ longitudinal position; buttocks at their transverse offset; and waterlines at their vertical location. See Setting up the Grid on page 19 for more information.

This will change the order of the markers in the markers table and collate all markers with the same station index reference number together in the markers table (without changing the order of the markers for a given station index number). This command is useful if a new station of marker points has been added and the new station has been added out of sequence, at the end of the Marker table.

After transverse sections have been defined and a Station Index for each marker has been assigned, the markers with the same station index may be sorted into order (using a nearest neighbour sort). See Sorting Markers on page 73 for more information.

This command sorts all markers in a selection in the order of selection. Running this command twice will sort (or: order) the markers in the opposite order. See Sorting Markers on page 73 for more information.

This will invert or reverse the ordering of the markers on the current section (as selected in the Body Plan view Inset Box). The marker in bold (when Connect Marker Stations is turned on) is the first marker on the station.

This will delete any duplicate markers with the same position (to within a tolerance of 0.5mm) from the selected group of markers (or all the markers, if none are selected).

See Corner Control Points on page 157.

In a similar way that the Snap Control Point to Marker moved a single control point onto the marker, the Fit Edge to Markers will fit the selected edge to the selected markers. See Fitting a Surface Edge on page 157 for more information.

Smoothes the interior control points of the Current Surface based on the positions of the edge control points. The edges remain unchanged. Useful for getting an initial fitted surface once the edges have been fitted (see Fitting a NURB Surface to Markers)

See Fitting a Surface to Markers on page 159.

See Generating a TriMesh Surface on page 162.

This command deletes the TriMesh surface.

After Markers have been linked to a specific surface, the distance between the markers and the surface can be measured using this command. See Measuring Surface Error on page 161 for more information.

Allows you to edit the properties of the selected marker(s).