The SmartCAMcnc.ini file contains settings that apply to all SmartCAM products.
If you have multiple SmartCAM products, they will all use the same SmartCAMcnc.ini file.
Utility - Options
In general, all the settings that you might want to change have entries in Utility -
Options or other Utility menu dialogs. Descriptions for the options, include the Utility -
Option property string (the text you see in the Options window) along with the actual description.
The SmartCAMcnc.ini file contains the following sections:
Section
[ColorTable]
Description
The settings in this section define the colors SmartCAM uses to represent geometry and layers.
For information about how to change these settings, see "Color
Display."
Section
[ColorTableIndex]
Description
These settings assign index locations to the colors in the color table. This affects the order in
which SmartCAM assigns colors to new geometry and layers. For information on how to change these
settings, see "Color Display."
Section
[Defaults]
Description
The Defaults section includes a variety of basic properties.
Property
username, serialnumber, company
Description
Contains registration information for your SmartCAM installation.
Property
AppToolTipDelay
Options Description
General Tool Tip Delay (sec.)
Description
Sets the number of seconds, fractional values allowed, to wait before displaying
a tool tip window. This delay value is used by the SmartCAM User Interface, with
the exception of the List View. Must be a positive value starting at zero (0).
Default is 1.2 seconds.
Property
AppToolTipDisplay
Options Description
General Tool Tip Display (sec.)
Description
Sets the number of seconds, fractional values allowed, to display the tool tip window.
When this time is reached, the tool tip will automatically close. If you move your
mouse off the item, it will then automatically close. This display value is used for
the SmartCAM user interface, with the exception of the List View. Value must be a
positive number starting at zero (0). Default is 4 seconds.
Property
BackgroundColor
Options Description
Graphics View Background Color
Description
Contains the Color Table Index value that sets the solid background color for the
graphics view. Make sure no other color table index variables use this value or
geometry will be assigned the same color as the graphics view background and will
not be visible. This only applies if the graphics view gradient background is
disabled.
Property
CFGPath
Description
The path to your User Configuration files, such as .ini files. Path is
established during installation, do not change unless instructed to.
Property
Elements
Options Description
Maximum Number of Top Level Elements
Description
Determines the maximum possible number of elements in a process model. Enter an
integer value between 100 and 50000000. Only specify a maximum that you are likely
to use, as specifying a higher number wastes system memory by allocating space
for unused elements.
Note: You will need to exit and restart SmartCAM for the change
to take effect.
Property
ForegroundColor
Options Description
Graphics View Foreground Color
Description
Contains the Color Table Index value that sets the color for axis lines and cursor.
Property
Hotsave Jobmode
Description
Use by SmartCAM to manage the .jof files. Do not edit these lines.
Property
LicMessage
Options Description
License Log File Debugging
Description
Turns on and off several logging features used to resolve licensing issues with
SmartCAM applications. Do not change this option unless requested by SmartCAMcnc
Technical Support.
Property
LviewToolTipDelay
Options Description
List View Tool Tip Delay (sec.)
Description
Sets the number of seconds, fractional values allowed, to wait before displaying a
tool tip window. This delay value is used by the SmartCAM List View exclusively.
Must be a positive value starting at zero (0). Default is 1.2 seconds.
Property
LviewToolTipDisplay
Options Description
List View Tool Tip Display (sec.)
Description
Sets the number of seconds, fractional values allowed, to display the tool tip window.
When this time is reached, the tool tip will automatically close. If you move your
mouse off the item, it will then automatically close. This display value is used by
the List View exclusively. Value must be a positive number starting at zero (0).
Default is 4 seconds.
Property
PanelPosition
Options Description
Panel Position
Description
Controls the docking location of the control panel. Can be docked at Bottom
Left, Bottom Right, Top Left, or Top Right.
Set value to: 0 for Bottom Right, 1 for Bottom Left, 2 for Top Right, or 3 for
Top Left.
Property
PGAbsoluteLineWidth
Description
Print Graphics is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) function. SmartCAM prints
graphics so that the SmartCAM graphics view, printed output, and preview window all
look the same; though scaled to match the DPI (dots per inch) of the required output
device. The Line Width field on Print Graphics is a thickness multiplier; the default
is 1, which means print at 100%. Setting it to 2 says to double the thickness of
lines, and so forth.
Up until version SmartCAM v16.0, SmartCAM Print Graphics was not WYSIWYG.
When printing SmartCAM simply drew the graphics to the output device with a line
thickness of 1 (which was often too narrow to see, especially with color printers).
Using Line Thickness thickened the lines, the default value of 1 was a line with
a line thickness of 1, 2 was a line thickness of 2, and so forth.
This INI setting overrides the WYSIWYG behavior of Print Graphics. When set
to 0 (the default) or not set at all SmartCAM will use the v17.0 printing
behavior. If this INI setting has the value of 1, then SmartCAM will not
attempt to duplicate the apparent relative thickness of the lines in the
graphics view on the output device. When this INI value is set to 1, when
printing graphics, the Line Thickness input controls the line width used
for drawing the geometry. When Line Width is set to 1, the geometry is drawn
with a line width of 1, when set to 2, with a line width of 2 and so forth.
If Display Mode - Thick Layer/Step lines is enabled, then a Line
Width of 1 is doubled to 2. A line width of 2 is doubled to 4.
Property
SChelpDir
Description
This is the fully qualified path to your SmartCAM help files. Path is established
during installation, do not change unless instructed to.
Property
SmartCAMPath
Description
This is the fully qualified path to your SmartCAM directory tree; where executable
files are maintained. Path is established during installation, do not change unless
instructed to.
Property
SurfaceBoxingMode
Options Description
Surface Entity Bounding Box Mode
Description
Specifies the bounding box method used for surface elements when computing View -
Envelope, or using the group diagonal GRP_DIAG() function. Set
the keyword equal to 0 to use the fast Default calculation method or 1 to use the
slower, more accurate Exact method.
Property
SwapMidRightMouse
Options Description
Swap Accept & Pop-up Menu Mouse Buttons
Description
The option controls 2- and 3-button mouse behavior. The default setting is 1 (Yes).'
When the value is 1 ("Yes"):
for a 3-button mouse, the left button is Select, the middle
button is Accept, and the right mouse button is the element
pop-up menu.
for a 2-button mouse, the left button is Select and the right
button is the element pop-up menu. When set to 1, there is no
Accept for a 2-button mouse.
When the value is 0 ("No"):
for a 3-button mouse, the left button is Select, the middle
button is the element pop-up menu, and the right mouse button is
Accept.
for a 2-button mouse, the left button is Select and the right
button is Accept. There is no element pop-up menu button for
a 2-button mouse.
The Element Pop-up menu is often referred to as the Right-mouse button menu.
Property
ToolTips
Options Description
Enable Tool Tips
Description
Determines whether Tool Tips are displayed in the SmartCAM user interface. Set the
keyword equal to 1 (Yes) to display Tool Tips or 0 (No) to disable.
Property
Workplanes
Options Description
Maximum Number of Workplanes
Description
Determines the maximum possible number of workplanes in a process model. Enter an
integer value between 100 and 30000. Only specify a maximum that you are likely to
use, as specifying a higher number wastes system memory by allocating space
for unused workplanes.
Note: You will need to exit and restart SmartCAM for the change
to take effect.
Section
[GUI]
Description
Configures some application graphical user interface behaviors, OpenGL configuration options, and
some user interface element colors. For information about how to change these settings, see
"Graphical User Interface Colors."
Property
AutoTransparentRedrawAngle
Options Description
Auto-Sort Rotation Angle For Transparency Display
Description
Manages when SmartCAM re-sorts semi-transparent geometry while changing the view. In OpenGL
transparent geometry must be depth sorted, based on the current view, to display correctly.
As you rotate the view, the existing sorting order becomes incorrect. This INI setting
controls how much of a rotation you can make before SmartCAM will automatically re-sort the
data to display correctly. The default value is 0, or OFF. Valid angles are integers between
1 and 180.
If you have no transparent geometry (tools or surfaces) this setting has no effect.
Property
BottomGradientColor
Options Description
Graphics View Gradient Bottom Color
Description
When Gradient background is enabled, this property provides the RGB (red green blue)
values that describe the color at the bottom of the screen.
Format is: BottomGradientColor=# # #
Where each # is a value between 0 and 255 and provides the Red component,
Green component, and Blue component, in that order.
Property
HoleFeatureAxialLineCount
Description
Sets the number of axial lines used when displaying a hole feature element. A hole feature
is displayed as two circles, representing the top and bottom radius of the hole feature,
connected by axial lines. If there is more than one axial line they are equally spaced around
the circumference of the circles. Values between 1 (default) and 50 are supported.
Property
LayerColorIndexOffset
Description
The colors used for Steps and Layers are based on a color table and a color table index. The
color table is a set of RGB color values, one for each color. The Color Table Index is a set
of pointers into the color table. When assigning a color to a step or layer you are actually
selecting an index value, not the actual color. This way, if you decide to change a color
it is automatically applied to every Step and Layer, as the step and layer only saved the index
not the color itself.
When assigning colors to new Steps and Layers, SmartCAM just increments the current Index
number by one and uses that value. So, when starting a new model the first Step uses Index
1. The second Step uses Index 2 and so forth. When creating Layers the same process is used.
This leads to the case where Step 1 and Layer 1 have the same color; Step 2 and Layer 2 have
the same color, and so forth. This property allows you to adjust where in the Index Layer
colors start. So, if the value is 48 (as an example), the 1st Step gets Index 1. The first Layer
gets Index 49. The 2nd Step is index 2 and the 2nd Layer is index 50. This keeps the colors
from being the same.
Layer 1 is automatically created when you start SmartCAM; so the color has already
been selected when you start the application. To make sure your new offset is applied to
Layer 1, use File - New to start a new session and recreate Layer 1. This
only needs be completed for the very first time after you first set this Offset value.
For more information on Colors see the Color Display
topic.
Property
MaxCircleSegments
Options Description
Maximum Arc Drawing Segments
Description
Controls the maximum number of line segments that are used to display arcs. The more line
segments you use the smoother the curve but the longer it takes to draw on the graphics screen.
The actual number of line segments is a calculated value, based on the screen resolution, zoom
factor, and arc curvature. This parameter sets the maximum number of line segments, that could
be used - not that will always be used. The minimum value is 12. The default value is
0 - which means, use as many as you need up to the maximum value of about
100,000.
Property
MouseWheelZoomFactor
Options Description
Mouse Wheel Zoom Factor
Description
Controls the mouse wheel zoom behavior in the graphics view. A value of 1 is
the current default behavior. A larger positive value will zoom more quickly, a positive
value less than one will zoom more slowly.
Negative values work the same, except the Zoom in/out direction is reversed. By default
rolling the mouse wheel forward zooms out, using negative values will reverse this and
rolling the wheel forward will zoom in.
To keep the current default zoom speed, but reverse the mouse wheel zoom direction, set
the value to -1.
Property
PanDuringZoom
Options Description
Zoom About Cursor.
Description
Off uses the view center as the zoom center when zooming. When enabled, zooming the
view (using the mouse wheel) uses the current cursor position as the zoom center.
This option allows the display to be zoomed and panned at the same time by moving
the cursor toward the desired view center while zooming.
Values are: (0) - Off, (1) - On
Property
PlaneOrientationPosition
Options Description
Positions the optional Plane Orientation display axis.
Description
When the Plane Orientation display axis is enabled, this setting controls the location
of the axis. The locations are in relation to the current location of the Control
panel window. The Plane Orientation axis can be horizontally across from,
diagonal from, and vertically across from the current Control Panel location.
Values are: (0) - Diagonal From Panel, (1) - Horizontal From Panel, or
(2) - Vertical From Panel.
Property
QuickKeysNotRequired
Options Description
Allow Keyless Dynamic View
Description
Enabled and disables the optional keyboardless view functions.
When enabled can always use the mouse wheel to zoom the view, and can assign one of the
three other view functions (pan, rotate, spin) to the pop-up menu mouse button. This way,
when the mouse is in the graphics view, the zoom and assigned view function can be
immediately accessed, without having to hold down any keyboard keys or open the
Dynamic View window.
Values are: (0) - Off, (1) - On.
Property
QuickViewChangeMode
Options Description
Quick View in Group Mode
Description
When enabled allows full-time the hotkey dynamic viewing, including when the group arrow is active.
When Off, disables hotkey dynamic viewing when the group arrow is active. This option allows
Shift+Ctrl to be used for group box/range de-selection.
Values are: (0) - Off, (1) - On.
Property
SnapIsoLines
Options Description
Snap to Surface Isolines
Description
Controls whether the Point Snap icons recognize surface ISO lines. The Point Snap functions,
the icons that enable and disable end-point, center-point, mid-point, etc snapping, will
recognize snapping points on surfaces using the surfaces trimming curves. When SnapIsoLines
is set to 1 (Yes), the Point Snap functions will also test the surface's iso-lines. The
default is off - 0 (No).
This is generally left off for performance reasons.
Property
SolutionTriggerColor
Options Description
Solution Trigger Color
Description
Controls the color used by the Solution Trigger indicator. See SolutionTriggerOption above.
Property
SolutionTriggerOption
Options Description
Solution Trigger Option
Description
Controls how SmartCAM informs you that the field you are entering data into will provide enough
information for SmartCAM to trigger a solution and solve the element that you are creating.
For example, when drawing a line, if you click to set the Start Point and then
click on the End Point label (to activate the coordinate input fields) you would
see a marker. This marker, indicates that providing the End Point coordinate will give
SmartCAM all the information it needs to draw the line. Similarly, if you drew a line by
Start Point, Angle, and then clicked on the Length field
the Length field would show a marker, as providing Length lets SmartCAM solve the line.
There are three ways that SmartCAM can provide feedback that the current input field is a
trigger field. It can draw an asterisk next to the label. It can draw a box around the
label and the related input fields. Or it can do both.
Replace Free Coordinate Crosshair with Windows Cursor
Description
Turns off the free coordinate cursor (the large crosshair cursor), replacing it with the
normal Windows Arrow cursor. This option is normally used when running in Remote Desktop
or through a VPN connection, when the normal crosshair cursor is too slow. The within-range
snapping behavior continues to work as before; when in snapping distance the Windows Arrow
cursor will change to the SmartCAM snap cursor.
To enable this option set SuppressCursor to the value one (1 - Yes). To resume using
the normal free coordinate crosshair cursor, remove this INI entry or set the value
to zero (0 - No).
Property
TopGradientColor
Options Description
Graphics View Gradient Top Color
Description
When Gradient background is enabled, this property provides the RGB (red green blue)
values that describe the color at the top of the screen.
Format is: BottomGradientColor=# # #
Where each # is a value between 0 and 255 and provides the Red component,
Green component, and Blue
component, in that order.
Property
TransparentDrawStrategy
Description
Manages how geometry with transparency is organized in the OpenGL display list. The OpenGL
glMaterial() is normally used to set the display properties for transparent surfaces. However
for some NVidia and Intel graphic chipsets, this caused surfaces at the back of the z-buffer
to disappear. A new approach used was to use glColorMaterial(), which is called outside of
the start and end markers for the display list. This resolved this irregularity with the
NVidia and Intel chipsets, but introduced an intermittent problem on ATI display chipsets;
where transparent surfaces turned black, starting at the front of the z-buffer.
This INI property allows you to set which solution is used, to adjust for the behavior found
with your display card. This INI property can be set to one of two values:
0 = Use glColorMaterial(). Works best with NVidia/Intel chipsets. This is the default.
1 = Use glMaterial(). Works best with ATI chipsets.
Property
TransparentSortMethod
Description
Controls the sorting order of transparent geometry. When sorting transparent geometry, if
there are two surfaces directly on top of each other and are faceted in the same fashion,
OpenGL will render the surfaces as a mixture of different colored triangles. This optional
INI setting adds further geometry sorting options to try to address this issue.
There are three legal values for this INI setting:
0 = Give preference to the last surface found. (default)
1 = Give preference to the first surface found.
2 = Just sort by depth only with no preference given.
3 = No depth sorting completed. Pre-v17 behavior, useful when correct sorting causing
significant performance degradation.
Options 0 and 1 mean if two surfaces exactly overlap give display preference to the surfaces
in their assigned layers sequence order. If option 1, gives inverse preference to the
surfaces layer sequence order - from last to first, rather than first to last.
Property
UseBackgroundGradient
Options Description
Enable Graphics View Gradient
Description
Turns the graphics view background gradient on or off. Set to 1 to enable and 0 to disable.
Property
UseGLXorDraw
Options Description
OpenGL XOR Drawing Mode
Description
This option controls whether and how the OpenGL XOR line draw routine is used for displaying
the cursor. The supported values are "0|1|2." When set to
0, SmartCAM will not use XOR lines for drawing the cursor; the cursor is
treated like any other piece of geometry and is added to OpenGL's display list. This resolves
some troublesome display problems where XOR lines are leaving cursor trails; however, there
is a performance degradation involved with this option, since each time the cursor moves
the entire graphics view must be redrawn. The changes in cursor performance are rarely
noticeable on smaller parts, but the more geometry to be redrawn the larger the slow-down.
Additionally, the faster the display card, the less noticeable the impact.
When set to 1, the default, the cursor is drawn using XOR lines in
OpenGL's back-buffer.
When set to 2, the cursor is drawn using XOR lines in OpenGL's
front-buffer. This value often resolves cursor trail issues with ATI-based video cards.
Switching between the front and back buffers has different performance characteristics
with different display cards, it is also helpful in resolving display problems when
running SmartCAM remotely using Remote Desktop.
Property
UseOrientationDisplay
Options Description
Enable or Display the display of the Plane Orientation axis marker.
Description
This marker, displayed as a 3-D Axis, shows the current View orientation. It floats
above all other geometry, making it easier to quickly check your visual orientation.
As you change the view, the axis updates to always show the current orientation.
Values are (0) - Not Displayed, (1) - Displayed.
Property
ViewRedrawAfterZoom
Options Description
Redraw Arcs After Dynamic Zoom
Description
Forces a redraw after using the mouse wheel to zoom in or out in the graphics view. Set
the property to zero (0 - No) to keep current zoom behavior. Set the value to one (1 -
Yes) to force a redraw after a mouse wheel zoom operation.
Some graphic elements, such as arcs, may appear faceted after using the mouse wheel to
zoom into the view. Enabling this option will force a redraw and smooth out the arcs.
If your process model has a lot of surface facets, especially transparent facets,
enabling the redraw will incur a slight performance degradation, as the graphics view
is recalculated and redisplayed.
Section
[ListViewMarkers]
Options Description
List View marker name
Description
Used to control the single character status markers, used in the List view to designate special status
properties for elements. This includes markers for elements in the active group, layer vs step geometry,
current Insert Position, masked, and hidden geometry. Other markers are available.
If these INI settings do not exist, SmartCAM's defaults will be used. You can select
the appropriate character for each setting by directly typing in the character or entering the
characters ASCII numeric value. When using the numeric value (such as the MaskedHidden entry) by
entering a # sign and the ASCII value.
Property
Hidden
Description
Marks hidden elements with a caret character (^).
Property
InsertPosition
Description
Sets the current insert position element marker. The default marker is a greater-than sign (>).
Property
LayerPrefix
Description
Character string used a prefix for layer geometry in the List View. Prefix can be up to 5 characters.
The default is no prefix.
As an example, if the prefix were set to "L_", all layer geometry would include
this prefix in the list view. For example, a line would be shown as L_LINE.
Property
Masked
Description
Marks elements that are masked with a lowercase "o."
Property
MaskedHidden
Description
Special character that marks elements that are both Hidden and Masked. Default character is the
"ô" character.
Property
ReservedPlane
Description
The default marker for Reserved planes is a capital "R."
Property
Selected
Description
Marker for elements that are currently selected and in the active group. The default marker is
a hyphen (-).
Property
StepPrefix
Description
Character string used a prefix for step geometry in the List View. Prefix can be up to 5 characters.
The default is no prefix.
As an example, if the prefix were set to "S_", all step geometry would include
this prefix in the list view. For example, a line would be shown as S_LINE.
Property
SubspindlePlane
Description
Default marker for Subspindle planes is capital "S" shown when the workplane is assigned to
the sub-spindle.
Property
UnwrapPlane
Description
The Unwrapped plane marker (a capital "D") is shown next to a workplane, when the
wrapped plane is about to be unwrapped.
Property
WrappedPlane
Description
The default marker for Wrapped planes is a tilde (~).
Section
[Setup]
Description
This section contains a number of properties for screen display features.
For information about how to change your application's display font, see
"Fonts."
The other settings in this section control properties such as default screen size and position, the
Maximized and Minimized state. These settings are updated each time a SmartCAM application closes.
Property
ShowPathDblBuf
Options Description
Use OpenGL Offscreen Display Buffering
Description
The default value is 0 (No), which means SmartCAM is not using OpenGL double-buffering when running
tool motion simulations. In some cases, double-buffering can improve performance when running SmartCAM from
a remotely logged in workstation; for example, running it while in a Remote Desktop session. Set the value
to 1 (Yes) to enable double-buffering.
Section
[Verify]
Description
This section contains the option settings related to Process - Verification.
Property
AutoHide
Options Description
Material Removal Hide Process Model
Description
Enables (1) and Disables (0) the hiding of your process model. When enabled, Verification clears the
graphics view before drawing stock and fixturing. If not enabled, Verification does not hide the
graphics currently displayed in the graphics view.
Property
DrawEdges
Options Description
Material Removal Draw Edges
Description
Enables (1) and Disables (0) the drawing of stock edges. When enabled, Verification will draw edges along
the sharp corners of your in-process stock. This sometimes is helpful in discerning what you are
looking at.
Property
DrawEnds
Options Description
Draw Ends
Description
Enables (1) or disables (0) the drawing a representation of the tool at element ends. When enabled, Verification in tool
motion simulation will draw a representation of the tool at each end of toolpath elements.
Property
DrawPath
Options Description
Draw Path
Description
Select between the three Path types: standard animation path (None (0)), drawing the
elements as they are being simulated (Wireframe (1)), creating a filled path (Filled
(2)), and leaving a trail as the tool is moved (Nibble (3)).
Property
DrawRapids
Options Description
Draw Rapids
Description
Enables (1) or disables (0) the display of rapid moves.
Property
EnableRefinement
Options Description
Enable Stock Refinement
Description
Enables (1) and Disables (0) refining Verification's in-process stock. When refinement is enabled, Verification
will make multiple passes over your stock model automatically improving the display accuracy of the cuts.
Property
ErrorColor
Options Description
Material Removal Error Color
Description
Used Red, Blue, Green values to establish the error color for Material Removal. When Verification finds
an error, the cut is made using this color.
These adjustments are used when building Verification stock using extruded or rotated wireframe profiles. The
descriptions are similar for each of the three methods. The Tolerance Offset is the offset tolerance
allowed between the extruded, exploded, or revolved stock and the ideal profile. The smaller the
tolerance, the more accurate the extrude, explode, and revolve. Smaller values make uncut, initial stock model
surface finishes look slightly better but they take longer to create.
The three Tolerance Offset values roughly apply an offset to set the minimum amount
of change applied, no matter what is the current Resolution and Tolerance Factor values are.
It is best just to experiment to get the values you want. In general a small value for the Tolerance
Factor, and a value near or slightly less than 1.0 works for the Offset Factor.
Property
HideToolAtEnd
Options Description
Hide Tool at Range End
Description
When off, the tool is hidden at the end of each "Pause at" section and end of the simulation.
When enabled, the tool remains displayed at each pause point.
Property
IPSLayer
Options Description
Material Removal Stored Stock Layer
Description
Sets the Layer number to use, when using Verification's Store button, to capture the current in-process
stock as a facet object. The facet object is created on this layer number.
Property
MWResBalanced
Options Description
Balanced Stock Sampling
Description
Sets the ModuleWorks unitless resolution value when the Resolution Type is set to Balanced.
Balanced is an attempt at an average, useful value. It tries to balance between quick render
results and fast simulations, with decent small feature rendering, memory and cpu usage.
Property
MWResCeiling
Options Description
Stock Sampling Upper Bound
Description
Sets the maximum upper-bound for Verification stock resolution. Value is provided using ModuleWorks unitless
resolution value. The maximum value to use, as per ModuleWorks documentation is 1800.
Verification stock generation resolution is fairly complex. The higher the resolution value, the
more detail can be seen and rendered correctly. However, the higher the number the more memory and CPU time
is required to process. Setting the value too high can trigger failures, bad results, and even application crashes.
Property
MWResFloor
Options Description
Stock Sampling Lower Bound
Description
Sets the minimum lower-bound value for Verification stock resolution. Value is provided using ModuleWorks unitless
resolution value. The minimum value to use, as per ModuleWorks documentation is 200.
Setting a lower value allows small stock with few small features to render quickly.
Property
MWResPerformance
Options Description
Performance Stock Sampling
Description
Sets the ModuleWorks unitless resolution value when the Resolution Type is set to Performance.
Performance has an emphasis on small memory and cpu footprint and fast results.
Which also means that the rendered result may show visual artifacts when rendering small features.
Property
MWResQuality
Options Description
Quality Stock Sampling
Description
Sets the ModuleWorks unitless resolution value when the Resolution Type is set to Quality.
Quality places emphasis on better resolution values and ability to render small features
correctly. Quality uses more memory and cpu, and runs slower than Balanced and Performance. For this,
you are able to render smaller features better or medium features on very large stock.
Property
PauseAtContainedElements
Options Description
Pause At Contained Elements
Description
Enables (1) or disables (0) the processing of individual elements within a container.
Property
RemoveSmallChunks
Options Description
Remove Small Stock Chunks
Description
Enables (1) and Disables (0) Verification's automatic stock removal feature. As the simulation runs,
when a section of the stock is physically separated from the main stock the section of disconnected stock
is called a Chunk. When this option is enabled, as chunks are created they are removed from the
screen and simulation.
Property
ReportCollisions
Options Description
Report Collisions
Description
Enables (1) or disables (0) collision reporting. Collision information is added to Utility - Diagnostics
window. If Show Fixtures is enabled, collisions with fixturing will also be reported.
Property
ShowHolder
Options Description
Show Holder
Description
Enables (1) or disables (0) the display of any associated CTG holder.
Property
SpeedNineFilter
Options Description
Material Removal Speed Nine Filter
Description
Additional option that can be used to help when getting poor performance, when using Material Removal.
It filters out some possible graphic screen updates. For example, if you enter 100 it means that for every
100 possible times that Verification wants to update the animation on the graphic view, 99 of those times
it is filtered out and not done.
This speeds up performance at a cost to animation smoothness.
Property
StatusBarCoords
Options Description
Status Bar Coordinates
Description
Specifies whether to display World Coordinates (1) or Local Coordinates (0). Verification coordinates are
displayed on the read-out line and reference the selected plane.
Property
StoreFixtures
Options Description
Store Profile Generated Fixture Volumes
Description
Enables (1) and Disables (0) the storing of profile created fixture volumes, when the Store button is used
to capture the current stock. If this is enabled (1) and fixtures are displayed, the fixture volumes will
also be converted to a facet object and stored. This only applies to fixtures created by extruding profiles.
Fixtures created by STL or solid models do not need to be stored as you already have them.
Property
ToolDisplay
Options Description
Tool Display Style
Description
Controls how the tool is presented while running Verification. Can be set to Solid (0), Wireframe
(1), Flat (2), or None (3). Where the number in parenthesis is the value entered in the
INI file for this option.
Property
Use5xModel
Options Description
Use 5-axis Stock Model
Description
Switches between a 3-axis and 5-axis stock model; in Verification. The 3-axis stock model runs much quicker
than the 5-axis model and doesn't require as much memory. However, it's surface finish is not as good as the
5-axis and it cannot handle undercuts. Enable to use the 5-axis stock model; which can handle cuts on
multiple angles, undercuts, and has a better surface finish. The 5-axis model also requires more memory
and runs slightly slower.
Section
[ViewButtons]
Description
Configures the dynamic view mouse/keyboard combinations.
Assigns the view function (pan, rotate, or spin) to the pop-up menu mouse button, for use
when keyboardless view functions are enabled.
Settings are: (0) - Rotate, (1) - Pan, (2) - Spin
Property
Spin Pan Rotate
Options Description
Dynamic View - Rotate/Spin/Pan Mouse Button
Description
Configures which mouse button controls which dynamic view feature. The three controllable options are
Rotate, Spin, and Pan. Zoom is always the mouse wheel.
The default INI settings are: Rotate=0 Spin=1 Pan=2
Where the mouse buttons are: Left Button: 0 Right Button: 1 Middle Button: 2