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: NoneThis command inserts all the surfaces shown on the screen into ExTrace. Next time you render the ExTrace scene, you will see the inserted objects.
You are asked whether you wish to remove those surfaces already in ExTrace. If you remove the surfaces, only the new ones inserted will be shown. If you do not remove the surfaces, these new surfaces will be added to those already in ExTrace. If, by mistake, you add in a surface that already exists in ExTrace you will get a duplicate surface. This will make the computation slower and may produce unusual effects in the picture. If you suspect this has happened simply reinsert all surfaces choosing to remove the originals.
When inserted for ExTrace visualization, the surfaces are written into special ExTrace object files. These are stored a sub directory called ExSpl_files within the model directory. A unique number identifies each object. DeskArtes uses this number to decide whether a surface has changed since it was last used in ExTrace. If it has not changed it simply reuses the previous definition.