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Slice options
Menu: Options No icon No short cut
Settings for handling slice models
Makes it possible to change settings used for importing and displaying slice data.
Dialog Slice options
Initialize parameters:
Optimize calculated contours: Contour points that change the contour geometry below a certain
level are deleted automatically.
The contour resolution may have a big influence on the amount of data.
By optimizing the contour curves the amount of data can be adopted to the process accuracy
(compare Recalculate contour resolution).
Optimize within: Defines the optimization accuracy that is used as a maximum for filtering
contour point when reading slice data.
Delete contours without surface: Contours with a surface area that can not be calculated are
filtered and automatically deleted. Contours without an surface area result in errors when
building the slice and should be deleted.
Check contour turning: While generating slices, the directions of the generated contours are
checked and automatically corrected.
INFO: The Initialize parameters correspond to the advanced options within generate slices
(compare generate slices).
Display parameters:
Reduction of display stack: If this option is activated, the display of the slices is reduced. In the
input field you can define the factor of the reduction of the display. The more the slice display is
reduced, the smaller is the amount of data to be displayed, resulting in a much faster view. But
the display of the slice data is less detailed.
INFO: If single slice view is activated (Show single slice), every slice is displayed independent of
this settings.
Show hatch path at single slice: If this option is activated, the direction of the hatch path is
visualized, if the module contains hatches. For this, single slice view must be activated (Show
single slice).
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