Setting Options

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Contents

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 General
• 5.3 Default colors
• 5.4 Graphics
• 5.5 Transmit and receive
• 5.6 Default file locations
• 5.7 Symmetric multi-processing (SMP)
• 5.8 Module loading

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5.1 Introduction

This chapter describes the range of options that you can set in PS/Workshop. These options are used by default on any document that you subsequently open.You can set the following groups of options:

• General options - see Section 5.2
• Default colors - see Section 5.3
• Graphics options - see Section 5.4
• Transmit and receive options - see Section 5.5
• Default file locations - see Section 5.6
• Symmetric multi-processing (SMP) options - see Section 5.7
• Module loading - see Section 5.8

Each group of options is available in a separate tab in the Options dialog. Choose Tools > Options to open this dialog.

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5.2 General

The General tab lets you specify the sensitivity of mouse controls for the rotate, pan and zoom modes in PS/Workshop. Move any slider to the right to increase the sensitivity for that mode.

Figure 5-1 General options

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5.3 Default colors

The Default Colours tab lets you specify the default colors used for selected entities, bodies, the document background, and edges when in Dual Display Modes. Click on the color you want to change and choose a new color in the Color dialog that opens.

Figure 5-2 Default color options

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5.4 Graphics

The Graphics tab lets you specify how certain graphic properties are displayed in PS/Workshop.

• The Hidden Line mode panel lets you choose to display hidden lines in Hidden Line mode. You can also choose the color to display hidden lines in, and whether hidden lines should be solid, dashed, or dotted.
• The View panel lets you control how models are viewed in PS/Workshop. When Display axes is turned on, a small figure indicating the direction of the x, y, and z axes appears in the bottom right hand corner of each open document. You can choose which view is used when opening a document from the Initial view style list.

Figure 5-3 Graphics options

Click Restore Defaults to restore the default settings for each of the options on this tab.

Click Advanced Graphics to open the Advanced Graphics dialog, shown in Figure 5-4.

• The Shaded mode panel lets you control how facets are displayed in Shaded mode. You can display facets as shaded, wires, or points. Additionally, when viewing shaded facets, you can choose whether each facet should appear flat or smooth.
• The Facet Strips panel lets you control the output of facet strips in Shaded mode. If Output facet strips is turned on, then facet strips are output. If, in addition, Facet style in the Shaded mode panel is set to Wire, you can control the appearance of facet strips in the document window:
• Click the Strip color to choose which color facet strips are displayed in.
• Turn on Display strip outline only if you just want to see the edge of each facet strip, but not the facet detail within each strip.

Figure 5-4 Advanced graphics options

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5.5 Transmit and receive

The Transmit/Receive tab lets you specify transmit and receive options.

• Select the Parasolid version that you want to use for saving part files in the Transmit Options area.
• Specify whether to reduce assemblies to their constituent parts when opening documents in the Receive Options area.

Figure 5-5 Transmit/receive options

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5.6 Default file locations

The File Locations tab lets you specify default folders for schema, module and help Files. To change a default location, select it in the File Types list, click Modify, and browse to a new location in the dialog that opens.

To load PS/Workshop V1 modules automatically when starting PS/Workshop, put a tick in the check-box. See Section 6.1, "PS/Workshop V1 modules" for more details.

Figure 5-6 File location options

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5.7 Symmetric multi-processing (SMP)

The SMP tab lets you turn Parasolid SMP on or off. If your computer only has a single processor, you can ignore this option.

Figure 5-7 SMP options

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5.8 Module loading

The Add-Ins tab provides control over which COM-based modules are currently loaded in PS/Workshop. It also lets you manually register or remove a COM-based module. COM-based modules can only be used with PS/Workshop V2 and above. See Section 6.2, "PS/Workshop V2 modules"

Figure 5-8 Module options

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