The EngView System Configuration Utility

This tab displays the copyright information about the installed version and the EngView company contacts.

This tab lists your computer's parameters, operating system, and the installed EngView products.

In this tab, you set how EngView displays colors and other components of the visual environment.

General Options
Print real line width
Show splash screen
Disable FP exceptions
Use OpenGL
OpenGL Text Options
Factor
Rotated text
Force charset
Multi-byte charset
Used OpenGL rendering driver
Hardware
Software
Reset renderer
Special Effects Test	Opens a dialog box in which you test how the program displays 3D models. You also can set the texture quality with which EngView will display textures.
Onscreen Context Options
Auto-selected
Pixel format
Target
Offscreen Context Options
Auto-selected
Pixel format
Target
Anti-aliasing
Samples

This tab lists the file types that EngView recognizes and the version of the software that will open them.

This tab is where you set the paths to your local settings, used shared settings, library installation, and working folders.

NOTE: If you have installed multiple major versions, you will see as many tabs.

Local Settings	Here, you set the locations from which you retrieve and save data that applies only to your workstation.
Local settings folder	The folder that hosts all local settings files.
OpenGL configuration file	The folder that hosts the file that .
Custom shortcuts file	The folder that hosts the .ini file that contains the settings for what your EngView shortcuts look like.
User template file
Custom toolbars file	The folder that hosts the .ini file that contains the settings for what your EngView toolbars look like.
Application help file	(Empty by default) The path to the start page of the help system if you choose to access the help system from a location other than the default engview.com location. Most often, you enter a local directory that you can use for offline access to the help system.
Shared Settings	Here you set the locations from which you retrieve data that applies to all workstations in the network.
Shared settings folder	The default folder for all shared settings.
Shared template file	The location of the template file used across the network.
Sheets configuration file	The location of the sheets configuration file used across the network.
Templates folder	The folder where for EngView stores template files (.evt files).
Design frames folder	The folder that hosts the designs frames (.evf files) you can use.
Cost models folder	The folder that hosts your cost model files (.cem files).
Cost models data folder	(empty by default) The location where EngView keeps the actual data used in cost models. After you set a path, each time you edit the default values for design and selection parameters in an .evd file, EngView creates a .cemd file that keeps the new values. This file is then stored in the location you set here. TIP: If you need the .cemd file to be accessed by multiple users on a network, type a shared location. IMPORTANT: You will not be able to access the .cemd file for a project whose name or location was changed outside EngView .
CAM Scripts folder	The folder that hosts your CAM script files (.ncs files).
CAM machines folder	The folder containing the .evd visualization files for custom machine settings [link].
Features root folder	The folder that hosts features: counterplate markers, strip clips, strip pins, and quick features.
Markers folder	The folder that hosts files defining counterplate markers (.evb files).
Braille standards folder
Stripping generation presents folder	The folder containing the presets with settings for the generation of stripping dies.
Strip clips folder	The folder containing the files (.evb, .evc, .evx files) used for generating female stripping dies.
Strip pins folder	The folder containing the files (.evb, .evc, .evx files) used for generating male stripping dies.
Front Stripper tools folder	The folder containing the files (.evb, .evc, .evx files) used for generating front strippers.
Female stripping knife extensions folder	The folder containing the components (.evb files) that determine the extensions of stripping knives on female stripping dies.
Stripping supports	The folder containing the components (.evb files) that determine the shapes of the supports on female stripping dies.
Quick features	The folder containing the tools that take part in the generation of cutting dies.
Import associations .ini file	The directory that contains the file with the settings for how EngView associates styles from imported external drawings.
Style shortcut buttons file	The .evt file that holds information about the shortcut style icons you see in the contextual edit tab above the graphical area, as well as their size and how many they are.
Language translations override	The .txt files that contains any altered text strings for the EngView user interface.
Chase holes folder	The folder that hosts .evd chase holes template files.
Dieboard template folder	Check This! The folder that contains .evd files for dieboard templates.
Composite styles folder	The folder containing the .evb files that hold the patterns for the definition of composite styles — for example, zipper and wave.[link]
Visual symbols folder	The folder containing the icon files for styles.
Material definition file	The materials.ini file, which contains the information about available materials.
Material resources folder	The folder that contains the resources that determine how EngView visualizes materials.
Front and rear appearances texture images	The folder containing the images that EngView uses to visualize the front and rear sides of materials.
Edge appearances texture images folder	The folder containing the images that EngView uses to visualize the edges of materials.
Bump appearances texture images folder	The folder containing the images that determine the reliefs of front and rear sides of materials.
Heightmaps texture images folder	The folder containing the heightmap images[link] you can apply to material surfaces.
Heightmaps texture images folder (ORM)	The folder containing the ORM images[link] you can apply to material surfaces.
Preview images of Appearances catalog	The folder keeping the previews of materials that you see when, in the Surface Appearances catalog list, you select a material.
Preview images of Materials catalog	The folder keeping the previews of materials that you see when, in the Materials catalog list, you select a material.
Material icon resources	The folder keeping the previews of materials that appear in front of a material names in the Materials catalog list.
3D environment images	Check This! които се зареждат за фон background на 3д сцената[link view options: Scene Dispaly | Image & Scene Lighting| Environment]
Die pool file	The .ini file that contains the information about how laser cutting machines execute cutting jobs.
Controls symbols folder	The folder containing the images for how EngView visualizes check boxes.[link]
User fonts folder	The folder containing the files for how EngView visualizes perfa and custom fonts.[link]
Print marks	The folder containing the files for how EngView applies templates for print marks.[link]
Library Locations	Settings und.
Standards Library folder	The folder where EngView resizable designs (.evr files). NOTE: Normally, this is the EngView Library of Resizable Designs.
Standards folder	The folder containing the library standards.
Standards by code	The folder containing the standards as listed by their code.
Components folder	The folder that contains parametric components (.evb, .evc and .evx files).
Parameter templates folder	The folder containing the set parameter templates.
Standard matching catalogs folder
Working folders	Text on
3D external files	The folder that contains the external files that you can insert into 3D models.
Root working folder	The upper level work folder, which contains all work-related folders (listed below).
User working folder	The folder that contains all work rources: 3D files, EVD files, external 3D files, and NC files.
Samples folder	The folder that contains the ready-to-use sample files (images and files from supported formats) that you can use for learning the software's functionalities.
EVD files	The folder where EngView saves project files (.evd files) by default.
NC files	The folder that contains files for the NC Scripts you use (NC files).
3D files	The folder that contains 3D Presenter files.
Apply to all users	Makes the set paths apply to all users who use the current installation as installed on the current workstation.
Style Shortcuts	Opens a dialog box in which you can put together your own sets of style buttons that you want to use when working on specific jobs. The presets are Default, Counterplates, Male Die, Female Die and Varnish.
Default	(Available when a row is selected.) Discards any custom paths set for directories and subdirectorties and restores the ones that came from the setup program. TIP: You can use the Default button to set multiple custom local and shared settings paths with a single click: Set a path in the Local settings folder or/and the Shared settings folder. Select the rows below which you want to set as their subdirectories. Click Default. The newly set paths are automatically set also for the selected folders and are followed by the respective subdirectory name. Note, however, that if you later reopen the System Configuration Utility and click Default, EngView will discard these custom paths and will restore the paths set during the installation.
Open	(Available when a row is selected.) Opens the selected directory.
Browse	(Available when a row is selected.) Opens a dialog in which you can navigate to a drive or directory to set for the currently selected row.

In this tab, you:

• Select the Project Organizer database you will work with.
• Activate the installation as the default EngView version. (Provided you have installed more than one version.)
• Can start License Manager.

NOTE: If you have installed multiple major versions, you will see as many Current Installation tabs.

Database Configuration	In this group, you select the Project Organizer database you will be working with.
Select PO Database	Use the dropdown list to select a database (a .evp file), or click the browse button and navigate to where an available database resides, and select it there.
Database Path	(Read-only) The directory where the database file resides.
Database Comment	(Read-only) Displays a comment entered for the database file.
Activate Suite	Click to make the current installation the default version for opening files associated with EngView. (See the File Associations tab.) This means that each time an application integrated with EngView — for example, AI or Project Organizer — requests a functionality, the set version will respond to that request.
License Manager	Starts License Manager, in which you load, test, or remove your licensing instrument: license file or activation key.