6.5. Geometry

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Laptop mode

Swap middle with right mouse button for the pan/zoom/rotate actions on the Geometry Editor

Invert Mouse Wheel

Invert the zooming of the mouse wheel

Zoom on Mouse Location

Check to zoom In/Out on mouse location. Uncheck to zoom In/Out on viewport center. Pressing [Alt] during zooming inverts the action

Prefer QUA on rotation

Allow rotating infinite cylinders and transform them to QUA.gifQUA

Use of deprecated bodies

Allow the use of deprecated bodies BOX.gifBOX WED.gifRAW WED.gifWED ARB.gifARB for back compatibility. Propose them in the adding menus

# CPU/cores

Number of cores per viewport to use.

0

parallel mode with all cores available per viewport (default);

1

synchronous mode, 1 core per viewport;

n

parallel mode with n cores per viewport.

To activate the changes a restart is required.

Snapping distance

Distance in pixel where snapping to closest point takes place

Expansion Limit

When expanding parenthesis limit expansion to a certain number of terms

Zero

number smaller than this will be considered as zero

Infinite

height to use, for the RCC.gifRCC and REC.gifREC generated by the automatic conversion of XCC.gifXCC, YCC.gifYCC, ZCC.gifZCC XEC.gifXEC, YEC.gifYEC, ZEC.gifZEC to infinite

Accuracy

number of significant digits to use