Support Toolbars and Menus

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

Adv Smoothing

Advanced tool to smooth and sharpen a 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

Open Live

Allows to open the live view of the cameras to see the ongoing scanning process in the pc monitor

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