The Display menu contains commands for turning on and off items displayed in the graphics windows.

When the Markers option is activated, the marker points as specified in the Markers window are shown as crosses in all the drawing windows.

When the Section Splines option is activated, splines are fitted through the marker points of each section and displayed.

When the Edge Splines option is activated, splines are fitted through the marker points of the top and bottom of the surface and displayed. These splines will normally correspond to the sheerline and centreline of the hull.

When the Spline Controls option is activated, the splines and their control points are generated and displayed through all visible marker points. The splines may then be adjusted by dragging the control points.

Allows you to view all of the sections of the design at the same time.

When the Shape option is selected, the surface will be displayed. It is possible to display the surface being worked on, or the surface control point net. Alternatively, it is possible to show both the shape and the net simultaneously.  This allows for the modification of an entire control point net while viewing the changes in the surface itself.

The Net display shows the complete control point net for the surface.

As the net of control points only needs to exist for one half of a symmetrical shape, the Half function controls whether the shape is mirrored across the longitudinal centreline.

The Units command allows you to nominate the dimension units and the weight units.

By choosing Compress it is possible to foreshorten the display of the surface in the Plan and Profile windows.  This foreshortened display is valuable for fairing long slender hulls on screen. The vertical axis is increased relative to the longitudinal axis by a factor of four. 

See “Grid Submenu”

The Contours option allows you to select which contours are drawn on the screen at any given time.  Any combination of contours may be chosen from the Contours dialog.

When the Sections item is activated, all sections will be shown on the Body Plan and Perspective windows, otherwise only one section will be displayed. This option is useful when modifying the shape in the Body Plan window, as this operation does not require that all sections be shown, which may clutter up the display.

See Maxsurf manual for further details.

Selecting Render performs hidden line removal on the design with a choice of the type of surface shading used.

See Maxsurf manual for further details.