Store and recall support action settings in a clipboard-like fashion
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- What is it?
- What are the key features and benefits?
- When are sets used?
- Where do I find sets?
- What are the limitations to watch out for?
What is it?
Sets capture and store settings of supports so they can be recalled and applied later.
TopWhat are the key features and benefits?
- Sets hold the values used when you create supports manually.
- A set can store the values of more than one support type at once.
- The generation parameters of already existing support entities can be changed instantly with the values stored in a set.
- Sets let you apply new values to currently selected, existing supports individually. Supports that were not selected keep their previous values even when the individual supports where all generated by the same support action.
- You can duplicate and modify sets, delete custom sets you do not need anymore.
- You can export sets, share, and import them.
- Machine workspaces can bring their own default sets.
- Netfabb comes with three default sets, each storing example variants for all support types, bar, volume, and polyline.
The three default sets come with variants for each support type.
When are sets used?
Sets, in particular the currently selected one, are used automatically whenever you use any of the manual support creation controls,
bar,
polyline, or
volume, available from the toolbar, or through the context menu of a cluster of triangles determined by the
critical and
non-critical angles in the
Analysis tab in the context view.
You can also apply the values stored in a set to individually selected supports that were generated earlier. In general, sets are used in a "format painter" manner to capture the values used to generate a particular support entity (a single bar, polyline, or volume) to a different support entity of the same type as the original entity.
Sets cannot be used to define and store the values that you want to apply later. To make custom values available to a set, the respective support entity must be created first so that you can capture its parameter values.
TopWhere do I find sets?
You select and manage sets in the context view of the support module, and there on the Edit tab.
TopWhat are the limitations to watch out for?
- The three default sets cannot be deleted or changed. This is to preserve any custom values you may have stored in them with a version of
Netfabb before 2019.1. Updating to
Netfabb 2019.1 and newer does not overwrite the default sets. However, please make sure to duplicate and/or backup the sets with your custom values as future releases of
Netfabb may remove default sets entirely.
If you have not used default sets in previous Netfabb versions, have performed a clean uninstallation, or if you have not had Netfabb installed before, they are instated with their default values.
- A set cannot store more than one variation of a support type. For instance, if you try to capture two bar supports in the same set, each with different values, only one of them has its values stored and you cannot choose which one.