General

Definition

This page presents the most general parameters.

The first three options are extremely important:

you can choose the language and the date format.

A dozen of languages are fully translated.

The Distance Precision gives you the general precision of software; by default it is a tenth of micron. More concretely, it is the distance from which you consider that two points are merged.

This parameter is very sensible; do not change it, except for rare special situations. Never change to 0.1 for instance!

Description and Use

Use of Mouse

Predefined Templates: you can change the mouse settings according to predefined templates, based on some famous CAD softwares.
Direction of Mouse Zoom:

Classic (Object Mode)

Inverted (Flying Mode)

Wheel Up = Zooms out,

Wheel Down = Zoom in

Wheel Up = Zooms in

Wheel Down = Zoom out

Research Rectangle: determines the cursor precision while searching entities.

Opelists

Display opelists in the menus: This check button allows you to see or hide the Opelists menu.

Also, if you check it on, you can choose the size of icons that will be shown. We remind that these files are located in the menu Opelist, with same name as the opelist and the format *.png. You can create your own images if you wish.

Windows

View mode for Open and Save dialogs: choose the type of display in Save and Open dialogs.
- Either you keep Windows last settings: Managed by Windows,
- or you force the type of display you wish: Extra Large, Large, Medium and Small Icons, List, Details and Tiles.
Hardware Diagnostic: this button runs Microsoft Dx Diag, a diagnostics tool used to test DirectX functionality and resolve hardware issues, especially in terms or video and sound. It will report many system information and configuration that may be useful for technical support.

The result is shown in a dialog but can also be found in the directory Tmp, with the name DXDIAG.LOG.