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contiguous faces whose ang les are less than the
threshold value.
Planar Angle is available only at the Face
sub-object level.
Select MatID—Enables face selection by material
ID (page 3–969). Specify the material ID to select,
and then click Select MatID.
Select MatID is available only at the Face
sub-object level.
Select SG—Enables face selection by smoothing
group (page 3–1013).Specifythesmoothinggroup
to select, and then click Select SG.
Select SG is available only at the Face sub-object
level.
Parameters rollout
Edit—Displays the Edit UVWs dialog (page 1–888).
Reset UV Ws—Resets the UV W coordinates in the
Edit UVWs dialog.
Click ing this is almost the sa me as removing
and reapplying the modifier, except that a map
assignedintheEditUVWsdialogisnotdeleted.
For example, if you forgot to turn on the Generate
Mapping Coordinates check box for an object,
and then applied the Unwrap UVW modifier, the
modifierwouldhavenoUVWcoordinatestouse
and its settings would b e wrong. If you then go
backintheStackandturnonGenerateMapping
Coordinates, you’d need to click the Reset UVWs
button. When you click this button, an alert warns
you that you’re losing any edits you’ve made.
Save—Saves the UVW coordinates to a UVW
(.uvw)file.
Loa d—Loads a previously saved UVW file.
Channel group
This option lets you choose a specific map channel
bynumber,orthevertexcolorchannel.Formore
information, see UVW Map modifier > Channel
group (page 1–931).
When you change channels, you should reset your
edits, since the edits for one channel usually won’t
work for the next channel. An alert appears that
lets you choose b etween resetting the coordinates
or leaving them as they are. In almost al l cases, it’s
best to reset them.
Display group
Thissettingdetermineswhetherandhowpelt
seamsandmappingclusterboundaries,also
known as map seams, appear in the v iewports:
Show Pelt Seam—When on, pelt boundaries appear
in the viewports as blue lines.
Show Map Seam—When on, mapping cluster
boundaries appear in the v iewports as green lines.
The display thickness setting applies to both pelt
seams and map seams: