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    Settings

    Options

    Standards / Tolerances
    Standards / Text
    Standards / Color
    Standards / Linetypes
    Standards / Directories

    Standards / Directories Changing the HTML browser (for Help)
    Standards / editor, change the text editor (for directories)

    Application startup
    Program-Directories
    Software-Layout

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    Settings:

    Preferences for Print command and Browser are read from file {base}/cfg_{os}/xa.rc

    Default paths (menu - Standards -> Directories):
       Directories accessed with File/Open are defined in the file {base}/xa/dir.lst
       (Format: "symbolic base name | full path name / filename").

    Default values ​​for Z-buffer size, model size, Text Sizes are
      in file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc.
    These are set with menu
             Standards -> Tolerances
             Standards -> text

    The setup file for the PostScript output is {base}/xa/psv.setup.

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    menu Standards -> Tolerances

    Tolerances will automatically tolerances derived from the
    (maximum) Model Size.

    Modify
     The entire model is recalculated immediately.

    Reset
     The values are reset to the values defined in file /xa/gCAD3D.rc).

    The room size (default is 500 mm) is used to calculate the tolerances
      (Curve representation, Identical-point tolerance, etc).
      Room size changes at 10m:
    MODSIZ 10000

    The default value is in the file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc.

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    menu Standards -> Text

    This allows the default text sizes, and a scaling factors to be defined.
    The default text size in Notes is active when no explicit text size is defined.

    Modify
     The entire model is recalculated immediately.

    Reset
     Predefined values are in file /xa/gCAD3D.rc).

    The font size for text and dimensioning is defined by
    DEFTX Textsiz {>} {text {DimTextSiz General Scale} {}

    The number of decimal places is set interactively or in menu Standards -> text.
    The default values ​​are in the file {base}/xa/gCAD3D.rc.

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    menu Standards -> Color

       Defines default color.

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    menu Standards -> Linetypes:

    The linetype table is defined in the file {base}/cfg_{os}/ltyp.rc
      Default is ~/gCAD3D/cfg_{os}/ltyp.rc.

    It is modified by editing the above file with a text editor. Additional linetypes
    may be defined up to a maximum of 45.

    This table is valid for all sub-models currently loaded.
    This table is not stored with the models: in the model
      only the table index is stored.

    Default-content of ltyp.rc is:

      0 000  0  1         // Normal            Typ_Att_PT
      1 116  0  1         // text blue         Typ_Att_def
      2 000  2  1         // dashed            Typ_Att_go
      3 000  1  1         // dash-dot          Typ_Att_rp
      4 755  0  1         // faces1 thick1     Typ_Att_Fac
      5 116  3  2         // faces2 thick1     Typ_Att_Fac1
      6 555  0  1         // faces3 thick1     Typ_Att_Fac2
      7 990  0  3         // yellow thick3     Typ_Att_Symb
      8 090  0  3         // green  thick3     Typ_Att_hili
      9 822  0  4         // hilite thick4     Typ_Att_hili1
     10 447  0  1         // dimmed thick4     Typ_Att_dim
     11 000  0  4         // black  thick4     Typ_Att_top1
     12 900  2  2         // red dashed thick2 Typ_Att_top2
    #
    # Format: indexNr colour lineTyp lineThick // comment
    #
    #   colour     3 digits; red, green, blue.
    #              900 = red,   090 = green, 009 = blue;
    #              000 = black; 999 = white, 990 = yellow ..
    #   lineTyp:   0 = full-line (VollLinie);    1 = dash-dot (Strich-Punkt),
    #              2 = dashed (kurz strichliert) 3 = dashed-long (lang strichliert),
    #   lineThick: 1-6, thickness in pixels

    Example:
    Line Type 2 (G2): black, thin dashed lines; ltyp.rc to file with:
     2 0 2 1   // Index 2, Color standard (0 = black), Type dashed line (2)
               // Standard line thickness (1 = thin)).

    Activation manually:
    G2=0 2 1

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    menu Standards -> Directories

    All directories that will be accessed with File / Open Model,
      should be defined here.

      In File/OpenModel - Dialog you can select the directory with button "DIR-SYM".

    There must be a directory set for each symbolic name.
    Add / change directory-sets with Standards/Directories
      (starts editing file {base}/gCAD3D/cfg_{os}/dir.lst).
      Note: Access rights for writing is required.

    See also Symbolic modelfilenames.

    Unix example:
    Data /usr/home/gCAD3D/dat/
    IGS /mnt/win_d/gCAD3D/Models/igs/

    Shell variables can be used; eg:
    DXF ${HOME}/dxf_models/

    MS Windows example:
    Data C:\WINDOWS\gCAD3D\dat\
    IGS F:\MODELS\gCAD3D\igs\
    CD0 D:\

    The symbolic directory '.' is replaced by the currently active directory
    (Eg. for textures to load from the same directory as the native model).

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    Startup Parameters:

    The program can be started with the following parameters:
      comp              // compile dll's - activate checkbox
      exit              // normal Programmstop (with saving)
      crashEx           // Programmstop without saving
      mode_cad          // start in CAD mode.
      mode_cad_1_2      // Start in CAD mode, with main-function and sub-function
                        // main-functions: 0=PT, 1=LN, 2=CI ..
                        // mode_cad_6_3 = S (curve) / B-spline
      mode_man          // start in MANual mode.
      noTB              // no Toolbar
      noMB              // no MessageWindow
      noBrw             // no BrowserWindow
      defLoad           // load the model last used
      {modelName}       // load model; filetype can be:
                        // .gcad, .dxf, .igs, .stp, .bmp. .jpg
                        // Directories: see Directories
      {pluginName}      // no filetype: start plugin (DLL, shared library) with this name
      rcmd {filNam}     // start file with remote-commands starten. See RemoteControl

    Undefined parameters:
      {Filename}.{Filetype}

      Filetype .gcad, .dxf, .igs, .stp, .bmp, .jpg:
                        //  load model/image. File name must be complete.

      No filetype:     //  plugin (DLL, shared library) with that name to load;

    Examples:

    gcad3d Data/sample_mockup1.gcad noTB noMB
      Load model "sample_mockup1" from the (symbolic) directory Data,
      hide toolbar and message window.

    gcad3d comp defLoad tst3
      Start with last used model,
      dynamically unload compile and reload dll (shared library) tst3.

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    Program Directories:

    All directories are created under ${HOME}/gCAD3D/.

    The default directories can be altered in the startup script gCAD3D.sh if required.

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