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Min. sides per cylinder

this field is used to specify the minimum number of sides required in order for the program to recognize and map a cylinder. The program determines that an object is a cylinder by inference, it actually detects a cylinder as an extrusion having a circular profile. The circular profile is mapped by intersecting vertices, and the value set in this field represents the minimum number of intersecting vertices that the program is required to use to map a circular profile.

Compressed Geometry

this field is used to set how the ImPLANT-STL program is to deal with coplanar faces. The options are:

On

the default value for this field. With this option selected the program combines coplanar faces with shared edges into bigger faces. It also maps geometric solids into PDMS primitives. This option produces the smallest resultant MAC file.

Off

when off, the program does not combine coplanar faces with shared edges into bigger faces and does not map geometric solids into primitives. This option produces a much larger MAC file than the when Compressed Geometry is switched on.

Wrapper

this field is used to set how the program is to treat objects with internal parts. The options are:

On

with this option selected the program creates a wrapper around all solid parts. It will then remove from the MAC file any parts that are wholly inside other parts. Internal features created by solid parts overlapping are also removed from the MAC file. This option is useful if the STL file contains parts that have lots of internal parts that can be recognized by ImPLANT-STL as solids.

Off

the default value for this field. With this option selected the program does not perform the wrapping operation.

Solid polyhedron

This field is used to set how the program is to map solid parts to PDMS/Outfitting. The options are:

On

With this option selected the program creates solid polyhedra for solid parts that can not be mapped onto Boxes, Cylinders and other PDMS primitives. This is the default value

Off

With this option selected the program does not create solid polyhedra but maps these parts to POHE/POGO.

Edge visibility

This field is used to set the mode by which the program can set edges to be visible or invisible. The options are:

On

The default value for this field. With this option selected the program sets all edges to be visible.

Off

With this option selected the program sets all edges to be invisible.

Angle >

With this option selected you can set an angle by which the program computes if an edge will become visible or invisible. The default value is set to 60 degrees. If the angle is greater than the angle between the normals of the two faces that share an edge then the edge becomes invisible otherwise it will become visible.

Create VOLM element

This option allows the output primitives in the Macro file to be created under a VOLM element rather than an EQUI

The options are:

On

Create output primitives under a VOLM element

Off

Create output primitives under an EQUI element. This is the default.

Unicode macro

This option allows you to generate a macro file encoded as a Unicode UTF-8 file. This must only be used with a PDMS/Outfitting release that is compatible with such files: 12.1.SP1 and above.

On

Encode the macro file so that more none-ASCII filenames are described correctly.

Off

The default value for this field.

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