SpaceClaim Online Help

Popular options

Set the startup options, interface, application performance (speed vs. graphics quality), and customize the tools that are displayed while you are working with your design.

To customize popular options

1. Select SpaceClaim Options from the File menu to display the SpaceClaim Options window.

2. Click Color in the navigation panel on the left.

3. Modify the options on the page.

4. Click OK to save all your changes and close the window.

Graphics performance options

RenderingMode available from the Properties panel for a view on a drawing sheet. Use Rendering mode to change the Graphics style for the view. Select Inherit if you want to link the graphics style to the parent view. See Graphics styles. quality: Select a value from 1 to 7, where 1 is the lowest quality and 7 is the highest quality. Select a low number to increase the speed of the application; select a high number to increase the quality of the graphics. Increasing graphics quality may lower the SpaceClaim's responsiveness to actions in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.. If you notice a delay when working with your design, modify this option to increase application speed.

Anti-aliasing: The amount of smoothing applied to text, edges, and face boundaries in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.. This option appears only if your graphics card supports anti-aliasing.

Recalculate RenderingMode available from the Properties panel for a view on a drawing sheet. Use Rendering mode to change the Graphics style for the view. Select Inherit if you want to link the graphics style to the parent view. See Graphics styles.: Click this button to update the 3D display in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.. This allows you to see the affects of any changes you made in the settings dialog.

Startup options

Show splash screen: Select this option to display the splash screen when you start SpaceClaim.

Show welcome screen: Select this option to display the Welcome window with links to tutorials, training videos, and other support resources when you start SpaceClaim.

Check for software updates: Select this option to use your internet connection to check for updates each time you start SpaceClaim.

Interface options

Show tooltips: Select this option to display hints when you hover over tools, tool guides, and other icons. They briefly explain what will happen when you select the tool and provide some hints on how to use the tool.

Show popup messages in status bar: ON by default. Select this option to display popup messages in the status bar area (the lower left corner of the SpaceClaim window). These messages provide hints and feedback while you work in SpaceClaim.

Show popup progress messages: ON by default. Select this option to display progress messages when importing files or using the Volume Extract tool.

Show tool KeyTips: Select this option to enable keyboard shortcuts. Pressing and releasing the Alt will display shortcuts that can be used to access the Quick Access toolbar, the Ribbon groups, and the tools in the Ribbon groups.

Show Journal tab in the Ribbon: Select this option to enable Journal tools, which you can use to save and play back a record of actions used to create a design.

Control options

Tool Guide position: Select Left, Right, Top, Bottom, or Not Shown.

Show view orientation in design window: Default is OFF. When selected, this option displays a view orientation gizmo, as shown below, in the design window. You can click a linear gizmo arrow to rotate the design to a new orientation in 3D, or a rotational arrow to rotate the design in 90-degree increments in the plane of the screen.

Show mini-toolbar on selection: Select this option to display a small toolbar near your cursor when you right-click. The contents of the mini-toolbar depend on the tool you are using. You can click or scroll the middle mouse button to hide the mini-toolbar, and it fades as you move the mouse away from it. The mini-toolbar is shown in the image below.

Show radial menu: Allows you to use the radial menu to change select modes while other tools are active, and gives you quick access to the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid., MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry., FillUse the Fill tool to simplify or clean up geometry by extending surrounding faces to eliminate a selection. The selected region is filled in or healed with the surrounding surface or solid., and CombineA tool used to cut or glue geometry together. tools. If you select this option, you can select one or both of the following methods to open the radial menu:

• Show after holding left mouse button for N ms
• Show after clicking right mouse button, while holding left mouse button down

Show cursor arrows: Select this option to display arrows next to your cursor that indicate the directions in which you can move your mouse to edit the selected object. The arrows also convey the change in size that will occur if you pull in that direction.

Arrow transparency: Adjust the slider to control the transparency of the cursor arrows. MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry. the slider to the right to make the arrows more opaque; move it to the right to make them more transparent. The arrows are set to opaque in the image below.

MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry. handle size: MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry. the slider to increase or decrease the size of the Move handle relative to the size of the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace., as shown in the image below.

GridSee Sketch grid guide: Change the position and size of the toolbar displayed for the sketch grid. You can set the Position (Bottom, or CornerSee Fillet (interior corner) or Round (exterior corner)), and the Size (Large, or Small). The defaults are Bottom and Large.