The Workspace section of the Settings dialog contains settings applicable to the workspace environment.
Note:
The number of displayed options depends on the environment from which the settings were opened. All the options are available when the settings are launched from the workspace environment.
The following dialog elements are available:
Workspace
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Background color 1 / Background color 2: The background colors determine the appearance of the workspace background. You can determine two different colors to create a background with a color transition or you can determine both colors to be identical to have your background single-colored.
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- Diameter calculation algorithm: Select the algorithm to be used from the drop-down list: The Table-based approximation setting is selected by default. Outside diameters of bundles are calculated rapidly and accurately using a table of empirical factors (bundle factors). Alternatively you can select the Virtual wire placing (slow) setting which is a more exact method based on the determination of the best possible wire filling in a bundle, but is a lot slower than the table-based approximation.
- Default color: Default color of bundles.
- Default diameter: Default diameter used on bundles.
Preview
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- Preview layout: Specifies the type of 3D view which is to be used as the workspace's preview.
Automatisms
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- AutoPropagate el. options in bundle structures: When assigning an electrical option to an object, this option will be applied to all elements connected to the object as well (if activated).
- AutoPropagate wire harness affiliation: When assigning a wire harness to an object, this wire harness will be applied to all elements connected to the object as well (if activated).
- AutoRoute only visible objects: If activated, this option allows only the visible objects to be automatically routed using the AutoRoute command.
- In AutoRoute also use branching points: When using the AutoRoute command, objects will be routed in the shortest possible distance, not only through end points, but e.g. through shared points as well.
- Multiple wire terminal required (default): This check box applies to pins of the library and rapid prototype connectors and splices if more than one wire is connected to one pin.
If activated and the AutoAttach parts option is set or a wire terminal is placed manually on the wire end, the same wire terminal is added to each wire end connected to this pin. The wire terminal will then have a quantity of "1" in the bill of materials report.
If deactivated, one wire terminal is added to each wire end connected to the pin and the quantity in the bill of materials is summed up correspondingly.
If the connector / splice is replaced, this setting is taken into account and not the status of the existing connector or splice.
Length calculation
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- Global extra length group box: If you activate the Use global extra length correction check box (it is disabled by default), the global extra length will be used according to the criteria specified in the table below. The entries determine how much length is to be added to wires, cables, bundles, and surface protections so that the bending of these objects can be compensated. You can, e.g, specify that for wires / cables up to 1 meter length 1% will be added, while when they are 5 m long, 2% will be added.
Notes:
- The Raw length property is the real length of wires, cables, bundles, and surface protections without any global extra length and is displayed in the properties panel.
- The Length property is the sum of the Raw length property of wires, cables, bundles, and surface protections plus the Global extra length property. This length is also shown in the properties panel.
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- Control point to control path size ratio (%): Determines, in percent, the size of the control point compared to the control path (e.g. a bundle).
- Default auxiliary pin color: Determines the color of auxiliary pins.
- Min. auxiliary pin radius: Determines the minimum radius size of auxiliary pins.
- Default color for shared points: Determines the color of shared points.
- Apply parent color: Determines whether the control point will take on the color set for bundles (under Settings > Workspace > Bundles > Default color).
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- Default color: Determines the color used on labels by default.
- Width: Determines the default width for labels.
Name templates
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- <Object types> list: The name templates for the various object types determine the format of the names of these objects when they are created. The first edit box specifies how many digits the name is to have and any fixed characters which will not be changed (these can occur anywhere in the name). The second box specifies the initial value.
The [R] or [Reset] button lets you reset any changes made in the first and / or second box.
Let's say you have an sp_???A?? entry in the first box for splices and an sp_000AA3 entry in the second one. The first placed splice will then have the name sp_000AA3, the second one will be sp_000AA4, etc. The penultimate character A will eventually be changed to B, C, etc., but the other A (the third from the right) will remain an A.
Let's say the default connector name template is cn_00000. If ten connectors are placed, they will have the names cn_00001 - cn_00011. If you press the [R] button, it will reset the second box from cn_00011 to cn_00000.
Annotation
In this subnode, you find the following dialog elements:
- Font group box: Determines the settings of font, font size, and font style for annotations in the 3D working window.