3D Display

The 3D display provides the following features:

  • Shaded and wireframe views
  • Standard views (top, left, etc.)
  • Dynamic rotation, pan and zoom
  • Defining the center of view rotation
  • Rotate using arrow keys
  • Save and restore views
  • View undo and redo

Dynamic View Manipulation

You can use the following standard methods to change your view dynamically:

  • To rotate: press the right mouse button, and move the mouse.
  • To pan: press the middle mouse button (mouse wheel) and move the cursor
  • To zoom: use the mouse wheel.
  • To rotate: press the right mouse button, and then also Ctrl and move the mouse to rotate. The speed of view rotation is dependent on dimensions of a displayed area. This works well especially if large zoom is used.

Other methods are also available – they are usually provided to keep interface compatibility with older versions of VariCAD:

  • To rotate: press Ctrl + Shift key, and the left mouse button, and move the mouse to rotate. The speed of view rotation is dependent on dimensions of all visible objects. This works well in most cases except the large zooms.
  • To rotate: press Ctrl + Shift key, and the right mouse button, and move the mouse to rotate. The speed of view rotation is dependent on dimensions of a displayed area. This works well especially if large zoom is used.
  • To rotate: press the right mouse button, then the left button, and move the mouse. This is the same as Ctrl, Shift and left mouse button.
  • To rotate: press the right mouse button, then the left button, Ctrl key and move the mouse. This is the same as Ctrl, Shift and right mouse button.
  • To zoom: press Shift and the left mouse button, and move the mouse. Move the mouse up to shrink, down to enlarge.
  • To zoom: press the right mouse button, then the middle button, and move the mouse.
  • To pan: press Ctrl and the left mouse button, and move the mouse.
  • To pan: press the middle mouse button, then the left button, and move the mouse.
  • To refresh view, press F6

For dynamic view rotation, zoom or pan all keys and/or mouse buttons must be held simultaneously, of course.


Dynamic view changes can be set in command “CFG”.


Animated View Changes

If view is not changed dynamically by cursor movement or mouse wheel rotation, the change is animated. For instance – if you select a front view and the current view is under a random angle, the view is not redrawn immediately. Angle of view is changed within a few tenths of second. This gives you better impression of the change.


VariCAD permanently checks time of redrawing. If you have slow graphics and if you want to redraw a large amount of 3D data, animation is automatically turned off. Animation of view changes can be managed in command “CFG”.


Predefined View

You can use a predefined angle of 3D view. Predefined view is created from front view by rotation around X, Y and Z axes of display. It can be set in command “CFG”. By default, the predefined view is used whenever a new file is created.


Predefined View - PRV

This command sets the view according to predefined angles.


Rotating View Using the Arrow Keys

You can use the arrow keys to rotate the view around a specific axis. Press Shift, Ctrl, or both, and then press the following:

  • Left or right arrow to rotate around the Y axis
  • Up or down arrow to rotate around the X axis

You can use the keys in combination to change the view angle.


3D View Tools

Left View - VLE
Right View - VRI
Front View - VFR
Back View - VBA
Top View - VTO
Bottom View - VBO
Isometric View 1
Isometric View 2
View to Plane - RNP

Sets the view perpendicular to a selected plane. This tool is useful especially when creating a 2D view export.

Rotate View Around X 90 Degrees - X90
Rotate View Around X 180 Degrees - X180
Rotate View Around X 270 Degrees - X270

Rotates the view by the specified angle around the global X axis (horizontal axis)

Rotate View Around Y 90 Degrees - Y90
Rotate View Around Y 180 Degrees - Y180
Rotate View Around Y 270 Degrees - Y270

Rotates the view by the specified angle around the global Y axis (vertical axis)

Rotate View Around Z 90 Degrees - Z90
Rotate View Around Z 180 Degrees - Z180
Rotate View Around Z 270 Degrees - Z270

Rotates the view by the specified angle around the global Z axis (perpendicular to display plane)

Undo View - ZPR
Redo View - ZRD
Zoom Window - ZWI

Defines the zoom by specifying opposite display corners

Zoom All - ZALL

Adjusts the view to display all visible objects


Saving Views

You can save up to eight views that contain rotation, zoom and pan settings. The Predefined Tools toolbar enables you to easily restore these saved views.

Save View - click this icon and select the number of the saved view.

The other icons on this toolbar restore the numbered views. Your views are saved with the file.

Both the 2D and 3D components of a file can each contain eight saved views.



Predefined Views toolbar


Shaded and Wireframe Display

Shade/Wireframe Entire Display - SHW

Switches the display from shaded to wireframe or vice versa.


3D Display Settings

3D Shading and Edges Settings - 3DS

Enables you to change how 3D objects are displayed. You can define:

  • Displaying edges. You can define shininess of edges, edges darkness and whether the tangent connections of patches are displayed.
  • Surface reflectance. Enables to set light attributes and defines method of surface shading. See Surface Shading.

Colors and Wires of Solids - SCO

This function defines:

  • Density of non-planar surface wires. Density setting affects solids displaying, if all space is displayed as wire-framed or if a particular solid is displayed as wire-framed.
  • If the entire solid is displayed in the same color. Otherwise each component added to the solid during past Boolean operations is displayed in the original color.
  • If the solid is displayed in color assigned to material (like a particular steel grade, for instance). Then, solids are distinguished by material colors. If a color for given material is not defined, or if a solid has no material defined, then a common color is used. See List of Materials.
  • Colors of new solids. New 3D objects like a solid, hole, filleting etc. are created in the selected color.

You may also select different colors for entire groups of objects. Thus, the objects are distinguished easily from the rest. This option overrides objects' own colors, if turned on. Turned off, the objects are displayed again in their own colors.

You may select a distinct color for:

  • Filleting
  • Chamfering
  • Threaded surfaces
  • Mechanical parts inserted from libraries

These options are turned off, if a color is defined by solid’s material.



Solid display settings window


View Rotation Center

Whenever you rotate 3D view, the view rotates around a defined point. You have several methods to redefine the view rotation center. The best option is to right-click an empty area and to select the change from pop-up menu.


Auto View Rotation Center - VCN

Sets the view rotation center to the center of geometry of all visible solids.

Define View Rotation Center - VCNI

Sets the view rotation center to a specified location, selected by cursor.

View Rotation Center to Display Center

Sets the view rotation center to center of viewport. This option is especially recommended for enhanced rendering.


Enhanced Rendering

Enhanced Rendering - SRD

Renders 3D objects more precisely. Smoothly rendered images are realistic and can be used in product presentation materials such as brochures, printed PDF files, folders etc. Once selected, enhanced rendering persists until any 3D edit function is called. It means that you can use all functions working with display, like standard views, view rotation etc. and enhanced rendering is still present. Display settings are the same as for standard mode; however, set values are different for each display mode.


Enhanced rendering is recommended if you want to create a bitmap output of images, or for printing of 3D display.


For enhanced rendering, you can set the following attributes:

  • Surface reflectance. Enables to set light attributes and defines a method of surface shading. See Surface Shading.
  • Display perspective. You can turn perspective on or off. If the perspective is on, you can smoothly change relative eye distance. This distance is defined as eye distance from nearest 3D space location divided by 3D space dimension.
  • Light position. Defines the light position by the cursor movement.
  • Reset light position. Sets the light position above the center of display.
  • Round surface smoothness. Each non-planar surface is displayed as a certain amount of tiny planar facets. If the number of facets is increased, displaying is more precise and slower. Facets are obvious, for instance, on a cylinder in large zoom, if the sight line is parallel to the cylinder axis.
  • Edges displaying. You can define shininess of edges, edges darkness and whether the tangent connections of patches are displayed. These settings are similar to standard display settings.
  • Threads displaying. We recommend to turn off the different color of threads, if you use such option for standard rendering.

Surface Shading

For surface shading, you can set the following attributes:

  • Specular reflectance. Defines lightness of surface lighted under zero angle. If set to 0, no light spot under light source is displayed and surface shininess setting is ineffective.
  • Surface shininess. Defines contrast of the light spot under the light source.
  • Light ambient intensity. Defines intensity of scattered light. This value can be set only for precise displaying.

It is recommended to combine enhanced rendering with selection of a proper color palette. All values can be changed by cursor movement, effect is seen immediately and values can be reset whenever.


The settings are different for shaded solids and for transparent solids.



Shading surface settings window


Setting 3D Display Performance

During start, VariCAD detects supported OpenGL version. If available, OpenGL 4.3 or at least 4.0 is used. For older hardware or insufficient OpenGL support, VariCAD works with OpenGL 1.1. In such situation, some features may be limited.


OpenGL 4.0 and higher allows you to fully exploit power of graphic adapter (card). Rendering time of large 3D data is significantly shorter than under old OpenGL 1.1.


If necessary, you may redefine which OpenGL version is used – although we recommend to let the decision at VariCAD system. To change the OpenGL version, run command “CFG” and then select “OpenGL Version and Initialization Settings”.


To change functionality of OpenGL, you may run command “CFG” and select “Performance, 3D Graphics, OpenGL”. For OpenGL 4.0 and higher, you may select:

  • Usage of render buffer for detection (by default on, change only in case of problems).
  • Image quality – anti-aliasing. For most of hardware, we recommend to work with compromise between speed and quality – Multisampling 4x.

If hardware does not support anti-aliasing sufficiently, VariCAD automatically turns it off. You may override such blocking.


Example of the aliased display method


Example of the anti-aliased display method


For old OpenGL 1.1, you may select:

  • Method of display of 3D objects (working with display lists)
  • Method of detection of 3D objects
  • Highlighting of 3D objects

Again, we do not recommend to change the behavior, if there are no problems detected. Changing these settings may be useful only if hardware or display driver performance is erroneous and you are looking for a method how to circumvent problems.


Hardware accelerated OpenGL

VariCAD is an OpenGL application. It means that for displaying of 3D objects, VariCAD uses the OpenGL functionalities. The OpenGL standard is widely supported by hardware manufacturers.


We recommend to work with hardware accelerated OpenGL. It means that final displaying of 3D objects is calculated directly in the graphic adapter (or, in other words, in the graphic card). Even in case the computer is fast enough, displaying is slower if calculated by CPU. Moreover, software emulation of OpenGL may not be always fully compatible with the standard. This may be a problem especially for older hardware.


If you are working under Windows operating system and if your computer has a graphic adapter like NVIDIA or ATI, OpenGL is likely hardware accelerated. Only some cheap solutions working with graphic adapters integrated on the board may be slow.


Under Linux operating systems, OpenGL may not be fully supported. To solve this problem, we recommend you the following:

  • Make sure if you have the latest proprietary driver of the graphic adapter. You can download it from corresponding web sites (for instance, from http://www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA graphic cards). You can also find installation instructions there.
  • The installation of the hardware accelerated driver may be necessary after upgrading Linux. Sometimes, Linux may offer the installation of accelerated drivers automatically.
  • If the proprietary driver is installed and VariCAD still displays a warning message, or 3D graphic remains slow, look at the file “errors.txt”. This file is in your working directory. It may contain clues explaining why the graphic adapter does not work properly.
  • Also, the system may not access related device files, because they have not correct permissions. This can be solved if you run the “User managements” and add membership in a group “video” for each user. The related device files can be accessed by the user group “video” and if the user is not a member of the group, applications launched by him cannot access corresponding files.

Test of Hardware Performance

Test of Hardware - HWTEST

This function is useful if you want to compare performance of different VariCAD settings or different hardware, like graphic adapters, main boards, processors etc.


The best option is to run the test after start of VariCAD, with no open files. VariCAD creates its own benchmark file. Then, hardware performance is measured. Results are displayed and can be saved into a text file. For the benchmark file, results are comparable. Optionally, you may run the test with any currently open file.


The test measures and displays:

  • Hardware and system configuration
  • Time of display preparation (tessellation). Result depends on CPU and GPU (Processor and graphics).
  • Time of rendering of all objects. Result depends on GPU (only graphics).
  • Time of detection preparation. Result depends only on GPU.
  • Optionally, time of rebuilding of 3D solids. Result depends on CPU (Computer processor)

Results depend also at other hardware components.


 

 


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Exporting Views and Sections from 3D to 2D Creating 2D from 3D List of 3D View Exports, Updating Views 3D Sections 3D Comprehensive Shapes Creating and Editing 3D Texts Pipes and Wires Sweeping of 2D Profiles Offset Patches – Thick Shells Threads in 3D
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Tips and Tricks
Basics Of Control

Interface, examples of various input steps, like mouse button clicks, hot-keys and their combinations. Examples of detection, objects selection and view changes.

Tools for 2D location, Tool combinations

Tools for location of 2D objects.

2D object selection, Filter combinations

Tools for selection of 2D objects.

Line

Drawing line from a point to another point, Using leading lines, According to values entered from a keyboard (xy, dx dy, angle radius, called by pressing K, D, R keys), Using fixed (locked) values (called by pressing TAB key), Combining multiple tools (TAB, dxdy...), Tangent lines.

Rectangle

Drawing rectangle by two opposite locations, Using fixed (locked) values (called by pressing TAB key), Diagonal distance.

Multi-line

Offset at one side from the central polyline, Offset at both sides from the central polyline.

Circle

Drawing circle by center and point at the circle, Center and radius, Two points, Three points, As a tangent to 2 objects, As a tangent to 3 objects.

Rotated parts

Shaft – a front view, Shaft – create a contour.

Polygon: hexagon

Leading circle is inside, the polygon orientation is at the edge, Leading circle is outside, the polygon orientation is at the vertex.

Dragging a circle to the rectangle center

Dragging, start by Ctrl+Shift+move cursor over an object, Dragging – right click. Two methods, different location at a center, Dragging, clicking an icon, Using Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Translate by a defined vector, Translate to a shifted center, Locate, using incremental cursor movement.

Stretching of objects

Dragging, start by Ctrl+Shift+move cursor over an object, Dragging – right click. Two methods, different location at a center, Dragging, clicking an icon, Using Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Translate by a defined vector, Translate to a shifted center, Locate, using incremental cursor movement.

Blending

Filleting of 2D corners, instant access (using Shift key), Filleting of 2D corners, Chamfering of 2D corners, instant access (using Shift key).

Divide or extend a 2D object

Extend to a boundary, Create a full circle from a circular arc, Remove a segment, Trim, Divide an object by a boundary, Divide an object by a point.

Changing 2D object attributes

Changing color, Changing line type, Changing layers, Blank/unblank objects (invisible/visible), Changing displayed thickness - 1 or 2 pixels.

Dimensioning

Smart dimensioning – easy dimensioning done within a single command. Horizontal and vertical dimensioning. Dimensioning of threads, chamfers, fillets and diameters. Aligning dimensions according to each other.

Settings

Drawing format, sheet border, Drawing scale, Using 2D layers, automatic changes of 2D layers, Default settings of a new file.

Creating a 2D drawing data

Drawing 2D objects and filling title blocks manually in the 2D area, 2D objects and title blocks created automatically from 3D space, Printing to PDF.

Selection of solids

Working with 3D solids. Examples of solid insertion, selection or transformation.

Solid transformation

Examples of solid insertion, detection and transformation. Examples of solid copying.

Single solid shapes

Creating predefined solid shapes (Box, cylinder, cone, pipe...). All solids can be created by rotation, extrusion or lofting of contours.

Solid creation by defined contour

Solid creation by extrusion, full or partial rotation of contour.

Lofting rectangle to circle

Creating a solid by lofting rectangle to circle.

Lofting a rectangle to single point

Creating a solid by lofting a rectangle to single point.

Lofting among multiple contours

Creating a solid by lofting among multiple various planar profiles.

Lofting among profiles rotated symmetrically around an axis

Creating a solid by lofting among multiple various planar profiles.

Sweeping of a 2D contour in 3D space

Sweeping of a 2D contour - creation of a banister, pipe...

Creating pipes or wires

Creating of pipes, wires (banister, cables, ropes...).

Rotation and lofting of contours

Rotation and lofting between two different contours, like between a circle and rectangle or between circles with different radii. Profile change is linear or allowing tangential direction from both ends.

Helical surface

Creating a helical surface by simultaneous rotation and extrusion of 2D contour.

Creating holes and grooves

Creating holes and threaded holes, cutting by an extruded contour, creating groove, cutting by a box. X axis of a tool is always perpendicular to selected surface.

Shells, sheet metal parts

Creating a sheet metal part using shell tools.

Editing of solid elements

Editing of solid elements by changing dimensions. Values can be defined in tables or by 3D dimensions. Editing of dimensions together with change of location of solid elements.

Editing of solid elements by changing creation contours

Editing of basic shapes by changing their creation contours.

Editing of solid elements, selection by cursor or from scheme

Solid element can be selected by cursor (press and hold Ctrl key, move cursor over it), or from Boolean tree scheme.

Editing of 3D pipes and wires

Example of creation of 3D wire, thread and geometrical constraint. Next step shows editing of it.

Assembly, Parts, 2D Drawings

An example of alternative creation of an assembly, sub-assembly, parts and corresponding 2D drawings.



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