Setting Your RevWorks Preferences
Sound Preferences - Disabling RevWorks Sounds
Disabling RevWorks Sounds You can disable sounds for events that you do not want RevWorks to announce. To Disable RevWorks Sounds From the Windows control panel, select Sounds and Audio Devices. The Sounds and Audio Devices Properties dialog is ...
Sound Preferences - Enabling RevWorks Sounds
Enabling RevWorks Sounds You can enable sounds for events that RevWorks does not announce by default or that you have previously disabled. To Enable RevWorks Sounds From the Windows control panel, select Sounds and Audio Devices. The Sounds and ...
Sound Preferences - Changing RevWorks Sounds
Changing RevWorks Sounds RevWorks allows you to change sounds for various actions. That way, you can customize audio feedback to meet the needs of your work environment. For example, if you work in a noisy place, you can specify a loud sound file ...
Sound Preferences - Managing RevWorks Sounds
Managing RevWorks Sounds You can manage RevWorks sounds to adjust the audio feedback provided to meet the needs of your specific work environment and personal preferences. When you first install RevWorks, a specific association of sounds is set up ...
Sound Preferences - About RevWorks Sounds
About RevWorks Sounds RevWorks plays a variety of unique sounds to indicate such actions as data collection, feature creation, and alerts. The sounds are totally configurable so that you can make adjustments to better fit your work environment and ...
Toolbar Preferences - Setting Toolbar Position
Setting Toolbar Position The RevWorks toolbar can be used free floating or docked to the top or bottom of the desktop display. When free floating the width of the toolbar can be adjusted to reduce its size to save space or enlarged to provide more ...
Device Preferences - Choosing Digitizers
Choosing Digitizers Because RevWorks supports multiple digitizers, you must specify which digitizer you plan to use. When you initially installed RevWorks, you chose the devices you wish to use from a list of supported digitizers. All of those ...
Device Preferences - About Device Preferences
About Device Preferences RevWorks supports several types of digitizing devices from a variety of manufacturers. Each specific device has its own configuration options and requirements. To work with a specific device, you must identify the device ...
DirectSurf Preferences - Setting the Number of Profiles for Parametric Surface Generation
Setting the Number of Profiles for Parametric Surface Generation You can set the number of profiles that RevWorks creates to generate a parametric surface. To Set the Number of Profiles Used for Parametric Surface Generation. From the RevWorks ...
DirectSurf Preferences - Adding Cross Curves to Parametric Surface Generation
Adding Cross Curves to Parametric Surface Generation RevWorks can automatically generate a set of cross curves to more fully define a parametric surface. The curves generated are not automatically added to the surface feature generation, but are ...
DirectSurf Preferences - Enabling Parametric Surface Generation
Enabling Parametric Surface Generation RevWorks can generate static reference surfaces or parametric surfaces. When the generation of parametric surface has been enabled, RevWorks automatically creates the set of section planes and sketch profiles ...
DirectSurf Preferences - Setting Spline Type for Spline-Bounded Surface
Setting Spline Type for Spline-Bounded Surface The limits of Spline-Bounded surfaces are defined by a single spline that you control with the Spline Boundary Type option setting. The setting you choose determines how closely the trimming spline ...
DirectSurf Preferences - Setting Surface Type
Setting Surface Type RevWorks can automatically generate two types of surfaces from collected point data: Curved (NURBS) - Creates a smooth, best-fit surface feature that approximates the curvature of the collected data. Planar – Creates a best-fit ...
DirectSurf Preferences - Setting Surface Extension
Setting Surface Extension Often when collecting data to form a surface to be used as an extrusion boundary or as a cutting surface, it is not possible to get points close enough to the edge of the surface to fully bound or cut the solid being ...
DirectSurf Preferences - About DirectSurf Preferences
About DirectSurf Preferences DirectSurf is a RevWorks feature method that allows you to directly create smooth surface patch features by collecting random data on a part surface. DirectSurf is intended for the collection of surface patches, not ...
Scan Mode Preferences - Setting the Freeform Scan Distance Interval Filter
Setting the Freeform Scan Distance Interval Filter When collecting freeform objects, such as surfaces and 3D splines, you can choose to apply a distance filter to the data stream to limit the amount of data collected. When no distance filter is ...
Scan Mode Preferences - Setting the Snap Scan Plane Tolerance
Setting the Snap Scan Plane Tolerance Plane tolerance is the maximum distance that the digitizer probe can be from the sketch plane in order for RevWorks to collect data from the scanning data stream. Plane tolerance only applies if you are ...
Scan Mode Preferences - About Scan Mode Preferences
About Scan Mode Preferences RevWorks scan mode allows you to easily collect surface features and features on arbitrary sections through parts. While operating in scan mode data is streamed from your digitizing device and data is collected when ...
Display Preferences - Displaying and Configuring the RevWorks Position Window
Displaying and Configuring the RevWorks Position Window RevWorks provides the option of displaying the current probe location in a separate, resizable Position Window. By sizing the Position Window you can create a position display with large or ...
Display Preferences - Deleting or Keeping Data Points After Feature Creation
Deleting or Keeping Data Points After Feature Creation RevWorks allows you to delete or keep the digitized points upon feature completion. The collected points are utilized by the least squares fit algorithms in the creation of the feature. After ...
Display Preferences - Configuring the RevWorks Cursor Weight
Configuring the RevWorks Cursor Weight You can change the display weight of the RevWorks cursor to increase visibility. To Configure the RevWorks Cursor Weight From the RevWorks toolbar, select , or select Options… from the RevWorks menu. The ...
Display Preferences - Configuring the RevWorks Cursor Style
Configuring the RevWorks Cursor Style There are several display styles for the RevWorks cursor provided. To Configure the RevWorks Cursor Style From the RevWorks toolbar, select , or select Options… from the RevWorks menu. The Options dialog ...
Display Preferences - Displaying the RevWorks Cursor
Displaying the RevWorks Cursor You can choose to display the RevWorks cursor at any time you are in data collection mode. When not collecting data, the RevWorks cursor is not displayed. To Display the RevWorks Cursor From the RevWorks toolbar, ...
Display Preferences - About the RevWorks Cursor
About the RevWorks Cursor RevWorks provides the option of displaying a screen cursor that graphically depicts the three-dimensional probe location in relationship to components of your SOLIDWORKS model. In addition, when digitizing two-dimensional ...
Display Preferences - Configuring RevWorks Location Display
Configuring RevWorks Location Display RevWorks allows you to configure the coordinates that display on the RevWorks toolbar and the RevWorks Position Window during data collection. There are three frames of reference from which you can choose to ...
Display Preferences - About Display Preferences
About Display Preferences RevWorks provides several display options that control the presentation of digitizer coordinates and graphical representations. Configuring RevWorks Location Display About the RevWorks Cursor Deleting Data Points After ...
Feature Preferences - Setting Minimum Spline Node Separation for Sketch Splines
Setting Minimum Spline Node Separation for Sketch Splines This procedure only applies if you are collecting data in scan point mode. If you are collecting data in single point mode, this procedure does not apply to you. If you plan to work with ...
Feature Preferences - Setting the Profile Fit Tolerance
Setting the Profile Fit Tolerance When collecting profile features, you can adjust a tolerance value that controls how tightly the feature’s tangent arcs and lines conform to the data collected. Smaller values for the Fit Tolerance result in more ...
Feature Preferences - Setting Automatic Plane Alignment
Setting Automatic Plane Alignment If you plan to work with planes, you can set RevWorks to automatically align new planes with SOLIDWORKS default planes. Automatic plane alignment affects the alignment of sketch coordinates within the plane to the ...
Feature Preferences - Setting Minimum Corner Distance for Rectangle Creation
Setting Minimum Corner Distance for Rectangle Creation When generating a rectangle of more than two points, you can specify the distance that any two successive points must be apart before a corner may split them. Note: RevWorks displays ...
Feature Preferences - Setting Automatic Sorting of Points for Sketch Splines
Setting Automatic Sorting of Points for Sketch Splines If you plan to work with 2D splines, you can set RevWorks to automatically sort data before creating 2D splines in single point or scan point mode. By sorting spline data before creating 2D ...
Feature Preferences - Setting Continuous Data Collection Mode
Setting Continuous Data Collection Mode If you have a lot of data to collect and many of the same features to create, you can set continuous data collection. This allows you to sequentially digitize any number of features of the same type in ...
Feature Preferences - Setting Unlimited Data Collection Mode
Setting Unlimited Data Collection Mode If you wish to collect the same feature type using a variety of point samples, you have the option of turning off data collection limits. This option allows you to collect any number of points above the ...
Feature Preferences - Limiting the Number of Points for Features
Limiting the Number of Points for Features By limiting the number of points for features, you set RevWorks to automatically calculate and create a feature upon collecting the number of points required for the feature. Limiting the number of points ...
Feature Preferences - About Feature Preferences
About Feature Preferences RevWorks provides several options for configuring data collection and feature characteristics. By adjusting these settings you can fine tune feature creation to better meet the needs of your particular work environment. ...
About RevWork Preferences
About RevWorks Preferences RevWorks provides a variety of options for configuring your work environment. The preferences that you select affect global application functionality and remain active until manually changed. You can change most ...