Meshes and Surfaces - Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design - page 426

The command displays a dialog box with the following areas:
• Mesh : For the seven primitive meshes to be created, this option controls
the default tessellation divisions in each direction
• Preview : This area displays the mesh primitive considering the tessella-
tion values and also its aspect if modifying the smoothness level later
• Preview Update : With the help of this option, preview can be automatic
or when pressing the Update button
Creating meshes from linear objects
Here are four commands that exist in AutoCAD for a long time. Prior to Version 2010,
these commands created polyface meshes, based on 3D faces. Since that version,
the MESHTYPE variable controls which type of object is created when applying the