T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

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Recall that icons can be created automatically. The regime of automatic icon creation is set in the
command “ST: Set Model Status” (tab “Preview”).
To create an icon in the current document, the buttons [Add] (“manual”
creation of icon image) or [From Drawing…] (automatic creation of
icon image) can be used. When pressing any of these two buttons, the
dialog appears in which a user will be prompted to select the size of the
created icon: one of the standard values (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64
pixels) or arbitrarily specified size.
Large icons (of size 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 pixels) can be used in
the windows of the T-FLEX CAD libraries.
After selection of the icon size with the use of the button [Add], the
window of the icon editor (see below) is opened.
When the button [From Drawing...] is used, the command response after selection of the icon size
depends on which way the command “IC: Create/Edit icon” was invoked. In case it was invoked while
the 2D window was active, the window of the command gets closed temporarily, and the rectangular box
snapped to the cursor appears on the screen. The box allows a user to select the area in the 2D drawing on the
basis of which the icon image will be created. If the command was invoked from the 3D window of the
system, then the icon image will be created on the basis of the contents of the entire 3D window of the
current document.
There is one more button in the command dialog which allows a user to create icons – button [Auto
Create…]. This button creates all four icons at once (of size 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 pixels). The icon
image is specified in the same way as when using the button [From Drawing…].
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