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How to Show Invisible Frame Borders

Frames, Macro, Tecplot 360 September 11, 2019

Problem:

I have multiple frames on the paper and I don’t want frame borders in my export.
So I’ve turned off the option Show border in the dialog Frame>Edit Active Frame.
At the same time I’d like to see an outline for all invisible frame borders to get a better idea how these frames are positioned and overlap on the page in the 360 EX session.
This outline should not be exported or printed.

Solution:

Tecplot 360 EX is able to draw dashed lines as an outline around these frames.

There are two ways to accomplish this:

1) In order to have invisible frame borders turned on right from the start of 360 EX insert this macro statement into the tecplot.cfg file:
$!INTERFACE SHOWFRAMEBORDERSWHENOFF = YES
2) If you would like to be able to turn invisible frame borders on and off as you please insert these macro functions into your tecplot.mcr file:
$!MACROFUNCTION NAME = "* Show Invisible Frame Borders ON"
  $!INTERFACE SHOWFRAMEBORDERSWHENOFF = YES
$!ENDMACROFUNCTION

$!MACROFUNCTION NAME = "* Show Invisible Frame Borders OFF"
  $!INTERFACE SHOWFRAMEBORDERSWHENOFF = NO
$!ENDMACROFUNCTION

These macro functions are accessible through the Quick Macro Panel (Scripting>Quick Macros).
The latter macro function allows to turn off invisible frame borders even if the statement is included in the tecplot.cfg file.

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