Sometimes important characteristics can faster be seen via 3D view, another time via topological data. Ideally you can check both in combination.

Regardless of whether you performed a search and want to check a single part or have loaded several parts into the part comparison, in both cases you can access the desired information.

In the Part view, topological information is found on the tabbed page Topology information.

Topology information and 3D view

Activate the option Activate mouseover in 3D.

-> Now when moving the mouse over a certain feature, it will be colored and besides you can see (still closed) a dialog area with topological details.

-> You can mark a feature permanently when activating the respective checkbox on tabbed page Topology information. However, detailed topological information is only displayed when activating the option Activate mouseover in 3D in addition.

	Tip
	Overlaying features like hole and cylinder, for example, can easier be selected by activating the checkbox than by selecting with the mouse.

In the Part comparison, you can find the topological information on the tabbed page Tabular Compare.

Tabular Compare and 3D comparison

If you only want to color the selected features in the 3D comparison, but do not want to display tooltips (labels), then disable the option Show tooltips for features in the context menu of Tabular Compare.

"Show tooltips for features" disabled

Unselect all topological features: Using this command you can remove all topological information at once for the chosen part (on the left deactivating the checkboxes, on the right hiding labels and marking.

Tabular Compare and 3D comparison

In order to see the differences between two parts at a glance, using the function Symmetric difference is helpful.

Symmetric difference

In addition, the usage of 2D comparison, Measure and Technical views makes sense.