Decide, if the Legend Placement should be Overlay or Attached. This option is also available in the Camera tab of the View Controls.

The Material Legend shows which materials are contained in the loaded structure.

Control the legend’s Placement with the parameters Align and Align Sign. Align controls, if the legend is placed at the Left, Right, Top or Bottom area of the visualization area and Align Sign controls where exactly in this area the legend is placed.

The following explains the functionality of the Volume Field Legend parameters.

Control the size of the legend by changing the value for Stretch. Enter values between 0 and 1. This parameter depends on the total GeoDict GUI size. Thus, a Stretch of 1 would be the as wide or high (depending on the legend placement) as the GeoDict window. If the Stretch is chosen too high for the visualization area, the legend is not displayed anymore. Thus, it is recommended to choose values between 0.2 and 0.6.

The value in Decimals determines the number of digits shown after the decimal point.

Number Format controls the numbers’ display in the legend. Choose between Number, Scientific, and Engineering. In the example for the choice of Number additionally the number of decimals was increased from 0 to 6, because otherwise all values would have been 0.

The choice of Plot Ranges controls how to display the spread of the data in the result legend. Decide to display Both, only the Plot or the Data range, None of the two ranges, or set it to Auto (Automatic).

The Tickmark Mode controls whether the selection of the number of tick marks in the legend should be Manual or Automatic. If set to Manual enter a desired Number of Tickmarks. As the tickmark numbers must be “nice numbers”, the tickmark number then is set to a number near the entered value, still resulting in nice numbers.

The Placement works as described for the Material Legend.

The Placement of the Axes works as described for the Material Legend.

The Placement of the Logo works as described for the Material Legend.

Decide which Status Information should be shown. The Placement for this legend works as described for the Material Legend.

Select the Mode to be Percentage or Fixed Size. If Percentage is selected, enter a Relative Size or change the value with the slider. This value then determines the size proportional to the length of the structure. If Fixed Size is selected, choose a Unit and enter a Fixed Size.

Enable Simple to display the scale bar with simple lines.

Select Show Border to display the rectangle around the scale bar.

Unchecking Background turns the black background of the scale bar invisible.

Also, the Font Color can be changed as desired.

The Placement for this legend works as described for the Material Legend.

Enter a custom Text to be shown in the visualization area.

The Placement for this overlay works as described for the Material Legend.

For Metrology, select the Line Thickness and the Line Color.

The Metrology feature is described along with the other sidebar tabs.

Change the Font Size for all legends by entering the desired value. Also, the Font Color Mode can be changed from the default Automatic to Manual. If set to Manual, a custom Font Color can be chosen. The automatic mode only affects the material legend and the volume field legend. The status bar contents stay white.

Change the Background Color of the Visualization area, if needed.

Decide whether the Status Bar should be Shown and select the Status Bar Placement to be at the Bottom or Top of the visualization area.