Setting paths for mechanical cad, Setting mechanical cad dimensions, Setting paths for mechanical – National Instruments Graphical User Interface Ultiboard User Manual

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Chapter 10

Using Mechanical CAD

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9.

In the Auto save settings box:

Enable auto save—Activates the autosave function. When
activated, you can also change the time between autosaves in the
Time interval (minutes) field.

10. Edit the following as desired:

Minimum control point size—The size of control points on
vertices and other objects.

Line width cache size—The number of recently used line widths
Ultiboard keeps in memory. Minimum cache size is 5.

Unicode Settings box—If desired, enable the Save .TXT files as
plain text
checkbox.

Language—Select the desired language from the list. You must
restart Ultiboard for all dialog boxes to reflect the new setting.

Setting Paths for Mechanical

CAD

The Ultiboard installation puts specific files in specific locations. If
necessary you can point Ultiboard to a new location.

Complete the following steps to set up file locations for mechanical CAD
files:

1.

Choose Options»Global Preferences. The Preferences

dialog box

appears.

2.

From the Preferences

dialog box, click the Paths tab.

This tab works the same way as the one for PCB designs. Refer to the

Paths Tab

section of Chapter 1,

User Interface

, for more information.

Setting Mechanical CAD Dimensions

Complete the following steps to set mechanical CAD dimensions:

1.

Choose Options»Global Preferences. The Preferences

dialog box

appears.

2.

Click the Dimensions tab and set the parameters for dimensions.

This tab works the same way as the Dimensions tab for PCB designs.
Refer to the

Dimensions Tab

section of Chapter 1,

User Interface

, for

more information.

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