## Section Cut Tessellation Factor

This registry entry contains the section cut tessellation factor. For section cuts PC-DMIS uses a constant independent tessellation factor regardless of what the tessellation factor for visualization is. The default factor is 0.1. This default can cause the section cut operation to be quite slow on the first cut as it computes the finer tessellation for all the surfaces that intersect the plane. On subsequent cuts, this finer tessellation will be cached resulting in quicker section cut operations for as long as the part program remains open. Once the part program is closed, however, the cached tessellation is lost and must be recomputed on the next section cut operation.

If the factor stored in this entry is the same as the tessellation factor used for visualization, then PC-DMIS won't need to compute another tessellation and will simply use the existing computed visualization tessellation.

Entry Name: SectionCutTessellationFactor

Entry Type: Real value. The default value is 0.1.