Display information about a selected Profile

The Single Entity command can be used to display various information regarding profiles. The command can be invoked in the following ways inside the program:

• Single Entity command ( Info Single Entity):

To view the feedback on profiles, right-click a profile in the Model Structure and select Info Single Entity. The Single Entity command on a profile gives the feedback in a Single Entity Info dialog box and contains information on items such as Internal entities:, External entities:, Dangling ext. reference(s): and so on.





• By right-clicking on the required items

You can also right-click on a entity inside the Profile environment and select Info Single Entity. The Single Entity Info dialog box then will display the information regarding the entity accordingly.

The information is available as:

• Entity type:

Displays the type of the entity that you selected; that is, whether it is a profile, a constraint (for example, tangency), and so on.
• Internal entities:

Displays the number of internal entities of the selected profile.
• External entities:

Displays the number of External entities of the selected profile. Select the Show check box to display them.
• Under Constraints

  Degrees of freedom:	Displays the number of degrees of freedom of the selected profile
  Constraints:	Displays the number of constraints currently applied to the selected profile
  Dangling ext. reference(s):	Displays the number of dangling references

• Under Loops:

  Loops:	Displays the number of islands of the selected profile
  Open profile	This check box is selected only when the selected profile is open

• Length:
  Displays the length of the selected profile.