Hiding or Showing Machine Parameters

You can hide or show the machine parameters such as the recoater or the gas flow. You can also hide or show the build envelope for a machine.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open a scenario with recoater and gas flow parameters as well as a build envelope.
See Also
Rules for Process Parameters
Basic Concepts

Hiding or Showing the Recoater

You can hide or show the recoater process parameter for the machine.

  1. Right-click a powder bed machine from the tree and select Powder Bed Machine > Edit NC Resource.
  2. In the Reference Parameters dialog box that appears, select the Parameters tab and edit the values in the Recoating Direction section, then click OK.
    The value you specify is the value of the recoater.
  3. In the Setup section of the action bar, click Hide/Show Recoater , then select the machine.
    The recoater is shown as a gray rectangle on the machine.

Hiding or Showing the Build Envelope

You can hide or show the build envelope for the machine.

  1. Right-click a powder bed machine from the tree and select Powder Bed Machine > Edit NC Resource.
  2. In the Reference Parameters dialog box that appears, select the Parameters tab and edit the values in the Rectangular Build Envelope section, then click OK.
    The value you specify is the value of the build envelope.
  3. In the Setup section of the action bar, click Hide/Show Build Envelope , then select the machine.
    The build envelope is shown as a cube surrounding the machine.

Hiding or Showing the Gas Flow

You can hide or show the gas flow parameter for the machine. This parameter will only appear if there is a build process rule defined on the machine.

  1. In the Programming section of the action bar, click Scan Path Generation .
  2. Choose a build process rule from the list in the Define and generate slicing and scan path dialog box that appears.
  3. Click Create or Edit Rule .
  4. In the Rules Management dialog box that appears, edit the value in the Gas inlet direction section.
    The value you define in this section is the value displayed in the gas flow parameter.
  5. In the Setup section of the action bar, click Hide/Show Gas Flow, then select the machine.
    The gas flow is shown as an arrow on the machine.