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1. here if you want to take the chance of a license lockup Some CAD programs require cam profile data to complete the circle which requires that the data repeat the first zero deg point as the last 360 deg data point This requires 361 data sets for 1 deg increments Other CAD systems want to complete the circle themselves and require the data to stop short of the last point This requires 360 data sets for 1 deg increments This panel lets you set it to either mode to match the CAD system of choice2. DESIGN OF MACHINERY Copyright 2010 Preferences Menu The Preferences pull down menu on the Home screen lets you set the defaults that will ob tain when the program opens These are saved to a text file in the folder where the program file resides This file is read each time the program opens and is rewritten at your request from the Preferences menu You can set various wakeup modes for cam type follower type follower motion units time base and the way screens are shown All of these choices are also selectable from menus in the program This screen sets their defaults The Home Screen can be full size compact or menus only Other screens can be made to open in centerscreen or not on top of other forms or not and in modal or dialog form or not Modal means that the relevant form must be dealt with and closed before you can access any other forms Clicking on other forms when a modal form is open just results in a beep This is the mode that the program is de signed to run in all forms except Home screen are modal on startup unless you change that here This guarantees that whatever data you see in a plot or print screen is the latest data calculated If you operate with nonmodal forms then it is possible to leave say a plot screen open then open a screen that does calculations change values and recalculate The open plot screen will still show the old data It will not update unless it is closed and opened again Some users ar
3. e frustrated when unable to view more than one screen at a time in modal mode and want to see multiple windows simultaneously The ability to turn off modal oper ation is provided for those users But they are cautioned that it then becomes their responsi bility to ensure that they are viewing the most recently calculated data at all times We rec ommend that you run the program in modal mode See the figure below for additional infor mation Set Default Preferences xj Help M Default Cam Type M Default Units Radial Barrel Linear Follower Motion 7 Translating in tb s inns oscillating Default Time Base Seconds Degrees Radians m kg s S Follower Type r C cm kg s Roller f M Open with Home Screen in Mode Standard Compact Menus mm kg s Flat M Open with All Screens F Start on Clicked File These panels set DbIClick a cam file to start program E the default View mode for various screens Centered Floating LO M Number of Data in a Cam Profile File Topmost Coverable Do duplicate 1st value as last value Non Modal Modal Don t duplicate 1st value as last value Use How and Save to Disk Use How but Don t Save Robert L Norton See the User Manual for an explanation of why the program is defaulted to NOT allow clicking a data file to run the program You can change that setting
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