Support Toolbars and Menus
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Additional Tools
All the software tools that are not available in the Main Toolbar can be found in the menus or in other toolbars.
The menu bar and every other toolbar can be showed or hidden by the user in the View Menu.
This page provides a list of all the tools, divided into categories, with a brief description and a link for the specific page, if available.
Project Tools
This tools can be found in the File Menu or in the Project Toolbar or in the Project Menu of the Main Toolbar and allow the user to create, edit and save projects.
New Free Project - Creates a new project in Free Mode
Project Creation - Creates a new Structured Project
Edit Project - Modifies a Structured Project
Load Project - Loads a Scan Project or an Exocad Project from the disk
Save Project - Saves the current project on the disk
Save Project As - Saves the current project in a different folder
Start Acquisition Wizard - Starts the Step-By-Step wizard for the current project
Export Visible - Saves all the visibile data in a single file
Exit - Closes the software
Edit Tools
All the buttons in the Edit Menu and in the Selection Toolbar are described in detail in the Data Editing page.
View Tools
This tools can be found in the View Menu, in the Navigation and Rendering Toolbars and in the 3D View Context Menu.
They allow interaction with the 3D View or to adapt the software interface at the user's needs.
The ones not described in the 3D View page are:
- Auto-hide Menu
- Hides the menu bar when the mouse is far from the top of the window
- Toolbars
- Submenu that allows hiding/showing the toolbars one by one
- View Aligned Implants
- If this options is enabled, the Project Tree will show a column with all the implants library aligned for every mesh
Show Marker - If the current mesh is aligned to an implant library, it shows the position of the implant library marker
Show Connection - If the current mesh is aligned to an implant library, it shows the position of the implant library connection interface
Rendering Toolbar
Light - Enables the light system of the 3D View
Color For Face - Switches from a smooth rendering to a flat rendering that shows every single mesh triangle
View Structure - Draws the triangles with a different color to better view the mesh structure
Color Mode - Allows to choose between 3 different color modes
Color Modes
- Texture : uses the original color of the object (only for color scanners)
- Assigned : uses the color specific to the element, it can be changed in the context menu on the project tree. This is assigned for every single object
- Uniform : uses one color for every acquisition and one color for every mesh. This color mode is selected by default, the colors can be changed in the Options window
Acquisitions Tools
All the buttons in the Acquisition Menu and in the Acquisition Toolbar are explained in detail in the Data Editing page.
These Tools are:
Select Outliers- Allows to select the outlier points
Select Outliers by Angle- allows to select outliers based on an angle
Select Outliers Segmentation- allows to select grups of outliers
Cut Hight- allows to cut unwanted and unnecessary parts of the model using a cursor
Generate Mesh- converts the Range Image in Mesh format
Mesh Tools
All the buttons in the Mesh Menu and in the Mesh Toolbar are explained in the Mesh Editing page.
These Tools are:
Remove Spikes- Corrects irregularities of the surface
Sharpen- Smooths the surface of the mesh while sharpening its edges
Adv Smoothing- Advanced tool to smooth and sharpen a mesh
- Smooth
- Smooths the whole surface of the mesh
Decimate- Reduces the number of triangles of a mesh
Defeature- Removes the details on the selected part of a mesh
Catenate- Creates a single mesh out of the selected individual meshes
Flip normals- Flips the normals of the mesh
Fill All Holes- Fills all the holes of the mesh
Close Denture- Closes the base of the meshed model
Fix Mesh- Detects and fixes the structural issues of a mesh
Mesh Offset- Creates a bigger/smaller version of the selected mesh.
Alignment Tools
Global Alignment - Tries to recostruct the entire object when the "Range Images" of an acquisition are not well fitted together
Alignment - This button will start the alignment of the currently selected item with the specific reference item
Tools
In the Tools Menu are available generic tools that are indipendent from the currently selected items and that do not fit in the other categories
Move Item - Allows to freely move the selected objects in the space
Distance Measure - Allows to measure distances by placing 2 points on the selected 3D objects
Single Acquisition - Allows to launch a single 3D acquisition without moving the object inside the scanner
- Dental To Free
- Converts a Structured Project into a Free Project (data will be lost in the process, this can not be reverted)
Options - Opens the Options Dialog
- Full Screen
- This tool will change the application window to use all the screen space
Service Mode - Enter service mode
Information
In the ? Menu, the following tools are available:
- Check for Updates
- By clicking on this tool, the software will look for any available updated version and prompt to download the last updated version if possible
- Ask For Support
- This tool will bring on the screen a dialog with the contact details of the technical support
- User Info
- This tool will show a dialog requiring user's information that will be used by the software's automatic update system to signal errors.
- About
- A little dialog with some information about this software
- Demo Mode
- Starts a demo scan procedure that lasts until stopped
For more details about a specific tool, look at the linked pages
