Highlighting Specific Mesh Elements
The mesh highlight tool allows you to view areas of the mesh where specific model settings are applied.

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None
- No mesh elements are highlighted.
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Lossy metal
- Highlight mesh elements (faces, wires) with a metallic medium and thickness applied to it.
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Coating
- Highlight mesh elements (faces, wires, edges) with a coating (layered dielectric) applied to it.
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CFIE / MFIE
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with either a combined field integral equation (CFIE) or magnetic field integral equation (MFIE) applied to it.
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EFIE
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the electric field integral equation (EFIE) applied to it.
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Impedance sheet
- Highlight mesh elements (wires, faces) with an impedance sheet applied to it.
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Surface impedance approximation
- Highlight faces that bound a region set to the dielectric surface impedance approximation.
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Physical Optics
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the physical optics (PO) solution method applied to it.
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Physical Optics (Fock regions)
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the physical optics (PO) solution method applied to a Fock region.
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Ray Launching GO
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the ray launching geometrical optics (RL-GO) solution method applied to it.
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Uniform Theory of Diffraction
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) solution method applied to it.
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Faceted Uniform Theory of Diffraction
- Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the faceted uniform theory of diffraction (faceted UTD) solution method applied to it.
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FEM
- Highlight mesh elements (regions) with the finite element method (FEM) solution method applied to it.
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VEP
- Highlight mesh elements (regions) with the volume equivalence principle (VEP) solution method applied to it.
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Windscreen solution elements
- Highlight mesh elements (faces, wires) that are specified as windscreen solution elements (windscreen antenna elements).
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Aperture
- Highlight a slot or aperture in an infinite plane with the planar Green's function aperture applied to it.
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Numerical Green's Function
- Highlight mesh elements defined as the static part using the numerical Green's function.

Figure 1. On the left, a 3D view of a horn and a reflector with no highlighting applied. To the right, the reflector is highlighted in yellow to indicate that PO solution method is applied to the face.