General File Options


RSDOC Options
	Load model in background	Select to orient large designs while they are loading.
	Load lightweight only	Select to open external components as lightweight graphics representations when opening RSDOC files. This option is disabled when Load model in background is unchecked. Note: You cannot toggle a lightweight component's display Off using the check box in the Structure Tree. Lightweight components cannot be modified which includes their display status.
	Ignore read-only files during save	Select to ignore external components whose RSDOC file has the Read-only property checked ON. This property can be set at the OS level or, more likely, by a PDM system. The option is disabled by default, which means that modified read-only references are versioned when saved. When enabled, modified read-only references are skipped when saving and a warning is displayed.
	Search Support File Folders when loading assemblies	Use to search the support file folders when loading assemblies.
Import Options
	Use DesignSpark Mechanical color tones when importing	Select to use the DesignSpark Mechanical color scheme for layers. This option is enabled by default to avoid fully saturated colors, on which highlighting is less visible. Faces of imported data will retain their original color tones if this option is turned off.
	Create multiple documents when importing assemblies	Open or insert a non-DesignSpark Mechanical assembly as multiple documents. When you save your design, click References to adjust where the documents are saved.
	Use matching DesignSpark Mechanical documents for faster import	Select this option if a design contains an external component that was previously imported and converted to the DesignSpark Mechanical .rsdoc format, and you want to re-use that previously imported file. Note: When DesignSpark Mechanical is integrated with a manufacturing application, this option is ignored. In the manufacturing use case, it is common to alter geometry to accommodate manufacturing processes and save the model with the same name. If this option is on, it could cause the manufacturing version to be overwritten.
	Automatically save imported documents	Immediately save an opened or inserted non-DesignSpark Mechanical file to an RSDOC file. (If you do not select this option, then opened or inserted files are not saved until you save the design.) Make sure that Save imported document and load as lightweight is NOT checked if you do not want to save any imported documents.
	Improve imported data	Improve a file when it is opened or inserted. You can choose to have DesignSpark Mechanical Clean and simplify geometry, Stitch nearby surfaces together, and Find coincident surfaces within a Tolerance that you specify. De-selecting this option imports the file without improvements so the file appears more quickly, but you may have to perform the improvements manually.
	Use multi-threading	Improve performance when importing large SOLIDWORKS or Solid Edge assemblies by running translation in multiple threads
	Use lightweight assemblies for DesignSpark Mechanical documents	If you open a DesignSpark Mechanical document with external components, the external components will be opened as lightweight.
	Use lightweight assemblies for imported documents	If you select this option, then you can select one of the following load methods: Save imported document and load as lightweight: When this option is selected, the imported file will be opened in memory. An RSDOC file will be created for each part in the file, saved, and then loaded as lightweight, which frees the heavyweight data from memory. You will see an entirely lightweight assembly. If you then right-click one of the lightweight components and select Load Component, then the part will be fully loaded very quickly. Also, this method displays the color of imported parts. The methods below do not. PMI information cannot be imported with a lightweight model. Assembly structure and lightweight geometry: This method imports the document just like in the above option, creating lightweight parts in DesignSpark Mechanical, but no RSDOC files are created or saved. As a result, this option uses less memory than the above method when importing the document. However, if you use Load Component on one of the lightweight components, the entire document must be re-imported in order to get all of the data for the component. Loading the component can be very slow. This method is recommended if you intend only to use the lightweight facets and not the heavyweight geometry or if you are working with smaller imported documents. Since an RSDOC is not created and saved, you are able to toggle Off the display of these lightweight components using the check box in the Structure Tree. Assembly structure only: Only the component name and hierarchy is created. No lightweight facets are created.
	Import hidden components and geometry	Select to open or insert hidden components within SOLIDWORKS and SketchUp files, and turn off their visibility in the Structure tree.
	Objects to be imported	Select the objects to be imported: Free curves Points Planes Axes Coordinate systems Object names
Export Options
	Improve data on export	Select to improve a file when it is exported. This allows you to turn off the behavior if you don't want to merge faces and edges before a model is exported.
	Export hidden components and geometry	Select to save components that have their visibility turned off in your design as hidden components when you save them as any other file type. This option is supported for Rhino, SketchUp, and SAT/SAB formats.
	Split periodic faces	Select to split periodic faces when exporting the files.
	Save drawing as image quality (dpi)