Fineness — Adjust these values to change the smoothness of curves and surfaces. With small values, more data is processed so the graphical performance slows down. If you increase the fineness value, graphical performance is improved but the display quality suffers, producing jagged, more notched curve representations.
Because it is easy to modify these values, you can use different settings at different stages of development.
- Curve fineness — This option adjusts the length of line segments for displaying curves. The smaller the line segments, the smoother the curve appears.
FeatureCAM uses surfaces to display all features and stock models. The smaller the area of the polygons used to display a surface, the smoother the surface appears. There are separate surface fineness values for the shaded and wireframe representations of the surfaces.
- Wireframe surface — This option adjusts the adjusts the area of flat polygons (plane segments) for displaying wireframe representations of surfaces.
- Shaded surface — This option adjusts the area of flat polygons (plane segments) for displaying shaded representations of surfaces. The smaller the polygons, the smoother the surface.
Size — Use these options to adjust the size of the selection radius, points, snapping points, and dimension text.
- Selection radius — This option specifies the radius (in pixels) of the hit area for a selection pick. If the value is small, you must select close to an object to select it. If the value is large, picking may be more unpredictable.
- Point size — Enter a Point size to specify the size of geometry point objects in the graphics window.
- Snapping Point Size — Specify the size of snapping grid points in the graphics window.
- Dimension text size —This setting controls the size of the dimension text and the dimension arrow heads. There are separate settings for English (inch) and Metric (mm) parts. When the part is scaled, the text and arrows are scaled along with the drawing.
Show surface boundaries only — With this option selected, surfaces are displayed as only their outer boundaries and trimmed loops. No additional lines are drawn in the interior of the surface. This option makes the display of larger models much faster.
Show feature dynamic highlight — When this option is selected, moving the cursor over an object's name in the Part View highlights the object in the graphics window.
User views save dimension visibility — When this option is selected, the saved view stores both the view orientation and whether each dimension object is visible or not.