Setting Screen Icon Display
When you first start your template-based product, it displays
Screen icons. As you add objects to your model, however, these icons can clutter your view of the model. To clear the display of a window, you can turn off the icons. You can select to turn off:
■All icons
■Only icons of certain types of objects, for example, all joints
■Only icons for individual objects, such as FORCE_1
In addition, you can set the size of the icons either in current units or as a factor of their current size.
Learn more about how to set the display of screen icons by database and object type.
For information on quickly toggling the display of all screen icons, see
Displaying View Accessories. For information on setting the display of icons for individual objects, see
Setting Object Appearance through Edit -> Appearance Command.
Setting Screen Icon Display by Database
You can set up how you want
Screen icons to be displayed for an entire
Modeling database. By default, all models and objects in the modeling database inherit the screen icon settings that you specify for the database. You can, however, override the inheritance for different types of objects as explained in
Setting Screen Icon Display by Object Type, or for individual objects as explained in
Setting Object Appearance through Edit -> Appearance Command.
To set up the screen icon display for the entire database:
1. On the Settings menu, select Icons.
2. Set New Value to one of the following to select whether or not you want to turn on screen icons:
■No Change - Select No Change to not change the current settings.
■On - Turns on all icons regardless of how you set the icon display for individual objects or types of objects.
■Off - Turns off all icons regardless of how you set the icon display for individual objects or types of objects.
3. In the New Size text box, enter the size you want for the screen icons. Note that any changes you make to the size of icons for individual objects or types of objects take precedence over this size setting.
4. To save the settings for each new database in your template-based product settings file (*BS.cmd), select
Save new size as default. Learn about
Saving and Restoring Settings.
5. Select OK.
To reset the screen icon display to the previous values:
■On the Icon Settings dialog box, select Reset.
Setting Screen Icon Display by Object Type
You can set up how you want
Screen icons displayed for a particular type of object, such as all parts or joints. By default, all objects inherit the screen icon display options that you specify for the modeling database. You can set screen icon options for the following types of objects:
■Motion
■Markers (Note that markers belong to parts and, therefore, by default, inherit screen icon display options for parts.)
■Points
To set screen icon display options for objects of a particular type:
1. On the Settings menu, select Icons.
2. Set Specify Attributes for to the type of object for which you want to set the screen icon options.
3. From the Visibility area of the Icon Settings dialog box, select whether or not you want to turn on screen icons for the selected object type. You can select:
■On - Turns on the display of screen icons for the selected type of object.
■Off - Turns off the display of screen icons for the selected type of object. Remember, however, that turning on the display of screen icons for the entire database overrides this setting.
■Inherit - Lets the object type simply inherit the display settings from its parent. For example, a coordinate system marker inherits settings from its parent part.
■No Change - Does not change the current settings. Lets you make changes to other display options without affecting the visibility of the icons.
4. Enter the size you want for the icons or select the amount by which you want to scale the icons. The scale factor is relative to the current size set. A scale factor of 1 keeps the icons the same size. A scale factor less than 1.0 reduces the size of the icons and a scale factor greater than 1.0 increases the size of the icons. Note that these changes take precedence over the size you specify globally for the modeling database.
5. Enter the color you want to use for the icons.
6. To browse for or create a color, right-click the Color text box, and then select Browse or Create.
7. Set Name Visibility Option to whether or not you want the names of objects of the selected type displayed in the view. Refer to Step 3 for an explanation of the choices.
8. Select OK.