Preferences



Standards / Tolerances

Standards / text

Standards / Color

Standards / LineType

Standards / Directories

Standards / Directories * HTML browsers (for Help)

Standards / Editor * text editors (for directories)



Program Start Directories

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Settings:



Preferences (print command, the browser) are imported from file {base}/tmp/xa.rc.



Default paths:

Directories on the example with File/Open zugegrifen*** application are in

the file {base}/xa/dir.lst register indicated

(Format: "symbolic path name /absolute path name/").

The interactive feature will be Standards/Directories.



Default values for Z-Buffer size, Model size, text size are

in file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc.

The interactive features will be Standards/Tolerances and Standards/Text.



The setup file for the PostScript output is {base}/xa/psv.setup.





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Standards / Tolerances





Setting the (maximum) Model size.

It will be automatically derived from the tolerances.



Modify

The entire model will be immediately recalculated.



Reset

The values defined (in file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc) are loaded.







The reference size (default is 500 mm) is used to calculate tolerances used

(Curve display, Identical-point tolerance, etc.).

Reference size change at 10m:

MODSIZ 10000



The default value is located in the file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc.







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Standards / text





You can use the default text sizes and a scaling factor to be defined.

The default text size for Notes will be active, if no explicit text size is defined.



Modify

The entire model will be immediately recalculated.



Reset

The default values (in file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc) are loaded.



The font size for text is defined and measured by

DEFTX (Text size> {DimTextSize} {TextGeneralScale} (*** AnzahlNachkommstellen number descendant represent} or

interactively in Standards/Text.

The default values are in the file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc.





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Standards / Color



Standard color defined.







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Standards / LineType:





The line type table is in the directory {base}/tmp/ltyp.rc.



The system editor is called with this file, which may include additional line types (currently up to a maximum of 50 can be defined).



This table is valid for all the currently loaded sub-models.

This table is not stored with models;

in the model, only the index table is stored.





Example:

Line 2 (G2): black, dashed, thin; to file ltyp.rc with:

2 0 2 1 index 2,

Standard color (0 = black),

LineType dashed (2),

Standard line thickness (1 = thin)).





The original data is stored in file {base}/xa/ltyp.rc.







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Standards / Directories





All directories to be accessed with the File/OpenModel, must be defined here.

In the File/OpenModel - Dialogue the directory can be changed with the button "<<---".

It is necessary for each directory a symbolic of application to be defined;

this can be chosen freely.



The system file editor is called with {base}/xa/dir.lst.

Please note: access right for writing is required.



Unix example:

Data /usr/home/gCAD3D/dat/

IGS /mnt/win_d/gCAD3D/Models/igs/



Example MS-Windows:

Data F:\Program Files\gCAD3D\dat\

IGS F:\Models\gCAD3D\igs\

Cd0 D:\



The symbolic directory '.' is replaced by the currently active directory

(eg in order to load textures from the same directory as the native model).







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Program Start / Start parameters





Program Start:

It will automatically load the model {base}/tmp/Model.

Sub-models have the file name {base}/tmp/Model_{submodelName}.

You can create these files by any lead programs.

File {base}/tmp/model is created automatically on program exit.



Start parameters:

When starting the following parameters can be specified:

new // standard model is NOT loaded

load // load model; file name is the following parameter.

defLoad // the default load model; otherwise done automatically

// After processing the start-up parameters.

run // from defLoad Model process (before exit)

comp // compile DLL - Enable Checkbox

exit // normal program stop (with save)

mode_cad // Start in CAD mode.

mode_man // start in Manual mode.

noTB // no toolbar

noMB // no message window



Undefined parameters:

{Filename}.{Filetype}

Filetypes .gcad, .dxf, .igs, .stp, .bmp, .jpg:

// Model (image) download. File name must be complete.

No file type: // Start with this plugin name (DLL, shared library);



Examples:

.gCAD3D new

Starting without loading the standard model





./gCAD3D load sample_interact1.gcad noTB noMB

Load sample_interact1 model from the last used directory (DirIn)

without displaying the message window and the toolbar

./gCAD3D comp defLoad tst3

Dynamic compile, standard model and load DLL (shared library) load and start tst3



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Programdirectories:

Default: all direcories will be created below ${HOME}/gCAD3D/. The programdirecories can be redirected in the startscript gCAD3D.sh
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