General Settings
List of general settings:
- Admin Settings
If you are registered to your computer as administrator, you are able to change the general administrator settings regarding Proxy-Settings and License Settings (see below). Furthermore, you can choose to disable online updates. If they are disabled, the green point in the bottom left corner of the netfabb window turns red. You will not be notified in case a new netfabb update is available and no user will be able to conduct the update.
- Language
Current available languages are English and German. They can be chosen in a dropdown menu.
- Unit of Length
In this dropdown menu, you can choose between mm and inch as standard unit of length for your netfabb installation.
- Show Icons in Menu
If you deactivate this option, no icons are shown in the menus and context menus of netfabb. Shown icons are always to the left of the menu functions.
- Proxy Settings
In the proxy settings, you first have to choose, if you want to use admin settings or not. If you do so, the settings can only be changed by the administrator in the admin settings at the top. If not, you can change the proxy settings here.
You may need an internet connection for updates or accessing the netfabb help. If your internet connection is based on proxys, you can change your Proxy-Settings, Proxy-Server, Proxy-Username and Proxy-Password in the respective fields. If you have a direct internet connection, the other proxy settings are not necessary. If you have a Proxy server without authentication, no username and password have to be entered.
- License Settings
The license settings are only relevant for netfabb Studio Professional.
As in the proxy settings, you first have to choose, if you want to use admin settings or not. If you do so, the settings can only be changed by the administrator in the admin settings at the top. If not, you can change the license settings here.
A dongle is required to validate your currently used license. Without a dongle, you will not be able to use any features restricted to netfabb Studio Professional and you can work only with the functionality of netfabb Studio Basic. If you use the Dongle type Network dongle, you have to enter the Dongle address in the field below. This is the address of the server where your network dongle is plugged in. You have to be connected to this server in a network. Please note that only one computer in the network can access a dongle with a single license at one time. If you use a local dongle, this dongle must be plugged into your local computer to ensure that you have all Professional features.
Below, you can choose the location of your license file. By default, this is the user directory of the administrator (usually, this is User/AppData/Netfabb/License.dat). Alternatively, you can set the application directory, which is the directory where netfabb is installed, or a custom directory, which you can choose in the setting below. Whenever you license your netfabb installation (by opening the license file with netfabb and restarting the software), the license file is copied automatically into the right folder.
- iPhone Settings
Here you can set whether or not you want to listen automatically for iPhones. If you choose "Yes", you will automatically be notified, if an iPhone with a netfabb installation tries to connect with your netfabb. In the field below you can enter the name which your netfabb will have in that network.
To connect netfabb with smartphones you need a wireless internet connection.
- Online Update Enabled
Here, you can choose to enable or disable online updates. This is only possible, if online updates are not disabled in the admin settings. You are only notified of a new update and you are only able to conduct an update, if online updates are enabled. If the online updates are enabled, the point in the bottom left corner of the netfabb window is green, if they are not enabled, it is red.
- Background gradient
In your background, there is a color gradient gradually changing from bright at the top of the viewing screen to dark at the bottom of the viewing screen. The default color is white, which becomes grey at the bottom.
- Platform size
The size of the platform is best adjusted to the size of the build platform in your machine.
- Always use file preview
If you select "Yes", the File Preview Browser will start every time you want to open a file.
- Resolve Windows Link File Names
This setting determines the naming of parts which are opened with a .lnk link file that links to a 3D file. If it is inactive, the part in the project will be named as the .lnk file, if it is active it will be named as the 3D file.
- Automatic check for erroneous parts
If you do not always check for parts with errors, there will not be any warning signs, if you have damaged or faulty parts in your project.
- Use Advanced file import
If this is activated, a dialog box appears where you can change the settings for the import and stitch, scale and duplicate parts. Please click here for further information.
- Default Folders
By double-clicking on one of the folders (default: use last path), you can change the folder which netfabb automatically opens when you start looking for files you want to add to your project. In a windows installation, the Setting "Use last path" is restored, when you select "My Computer".
- Coordinate System
The coordinate system in the bottom left of the viewing screen, can be altered in size. If the planes are shown, their minimum and maximum size, as well as their thickness can be specified. The size of the planes in the program varies between the minimum and maximum value, depending on the current perspective, with planes in the background always displayed larger than those in the foreground. The planes, if displayed, can be used for changing the perspective.
- Slice Commander
In case you visualize the prehatches of slices with the option Show Filling, you can edit the distance of the grid lines here. Additionally, you can choose if you want to have grid lines along the X-axis, the Y-axis or along both axes.
Also, you can edit the default tolerance for point reductions. You can also edit the tolerance at every single point reduction.
- Parts Library
In the Parts Library Section, you can edit the default settings for all parameters of all primitive objects you can add to the project.
- Part Repair
For the part repair, it is possible to change the default stitch tolerance. You do not necessarily have to use that value for the stitching of triangles, as you can set the tolerance for every single stitching.
The minimum edge length for good faces determines which triangles are defined as "degenerated" in the repair module. All triangles with a height lower than this value can be displayed in orange and are deleted with the function Remove degenerate faces.
- Measuring
For the measuring, you can choose in dropdown menus, which measuring mode and which option for setting anchor points shall be set when you start the measuring module.
- Part Renaming
The part renaming determines the name parts get automatically after they are modified. The name of the original is always part of the new name. To change renaming settings, double-click on a function in the list, or click on the button "..." which appears to the right of the function after you click on it once. A dialog appears to change the automatic renaming. You can insert what will be added before or after the part name in the text fields left and right of "part name". Below, you can see a preview of how your parts will be named. "Part name" always refers to the name of the original part. With the button "Set to defaults" at the bottom of the dialog, you can restore the default naming for that particular function.
The default setting for repaired parts, for example, is that "(repaired)" is added to the original part name.
"Create Hollow Part", "Inner Offset", "Outer Offset" and "Hollowing Shell" refer to the respective options for the function "Create shell". "Group of shells of one part" and "Group of shells of multiple parts" stand for the group names of the groups into which the shells are moved with "Shells to parts". Similarly, "Group of cut parts" refers to the group into which cut parts are moved.
For functions which may create several parts at once or which process several parts at once, such as "Duplicate", "Shells to Parts", "Cut parts" and "Merge parts", there is the additional field "XX". This is only enabled, if the box below is ticked. If several parts are created at once, the "XX" stands for a number which will be inserted for each part name. If you duplicate a part, for example, the copies will by default be named "Part name_c00", "Part name_c01", "Part name_c02" and so on. If several parts are processed by a function, the "XX" stands for the number of parts processed, as for example in "Merge of 2 parts".
Any changed renaming options are written in italic letters.
If you click on the last line "Defaults", a button appears with which you can restore the default naming settings for all functions.
