You can customize the user interface to suit your needs. Most of the tools you need to do this can be found in the Option dialog. To access the Options dialog, click
().
The background has been refreshed to give the canvas a more modern look and additional color tools have been provided so you can optimize your experience.
() and select the Background and Colors tab. Select Solid if you want a single colored background, or Gradient if you prefer a color scale. You can select from the standard color palette, or create your own color palette.
If you are particularly interested in maximizing the model pane real estate so that you can see the detail of the model more clearly, you can toggle various user interface items on and off from the View tab. Click
() and select or deselect items as desired.
In addition to the items that have been available in this toggle menu for many releases, the following new items have been added:
With this release, the CAD model components are now be imported with the same colors they had when they were modeled in the CAD program. Hot runners and cooling channels are imported with the Moldflow default color. If a layer contains more than one CAD model, then the CAD color of the first CAD model is used for all CAD models in the layer.
To select the original color of the CAD model,
As you zoom in and out of your model, the node size now increases and decreases relative to the model size, to enable you to see the model more clearly.