Zebra stripes represents the reflection of a striped room on the current model, faces, or surfaces in a Part Studio or Assembly. This allows you to see whether or not the curvature across edges is aligned and continuous.

  1. Click the Show analysis tools () in the bottom right corner of the interface.

  2. From the menu, select Zebra stripes to open the dialog box:

Curvature visualization dialog

  • Stripe count - Number of curvature stripes displayed on each surface

  • Flip stripes - Reverses the stripes.

  • Show edges - Displays the edges between part faces (default). When unchecked, the part edges are hidden. Hiding these edges improves the curve visualization between part faces in certain situations.

When the curvature is aligned across an edge, the edge is smooth and the stripes line up, and then veer off across the edge:

Example of curvature visualization aligned across an edge

When the curvature is continuous across an edge, the edge is smooth and there is no change in curvature across the edge. Stripes line up and do not veer off across the edge:

Example of curvature visualization continuous across the edge

Examples:

Example of no curvature visualization

No curvature visualization

 Example of default curvature visualization, with 35 stripes

Default curvature: 35 stripes

Example of curvature visualization with 10 stripes

10 stripes

Example of curvature visualization with 35 stripes and flipped

35 stripes; flipped

When you accept the Zebra stripes dialog (click the check mark), the dialog closes and the stripes remain. To turn the zebra stripes off, select Zebra stripes from the Show analysis tools menu again and click the X in the dialog. (Selecting Color map from the Curvature visualization menu also turns off the zebra stripes.)