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MachScreen introduction. 01.03.2010. MachScreen is an windows application. Most of the menu commands have icons in the toolbar . new. open. save. cut. copy. paste. print. undo. delete. Align left. Align right. Align top. Align bottom. Center vertical. Center horizontal.
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MachScreen introduction 01.03.2010
MachScreen is an windows application. Most of the menu commands have icons in the toolbar new open save cut copy paste print undo delete Align left Align right Align top Align bottom Center vertical Center horizontal Space evenly hor Space evenly vert Same width Same height Same size Deselect Refresh screen Multiple selection Single selection Not all of the icons are always enabled, e.g. paste, print,undo etc.
For windows standard operations you also can use shortcuts. Ctrl-A select all ctrl-items of the page Ctrl-C copy selected ctrl-items into internal buffer Ctrl-V paste internal buffer into selected page Ctrl-Z undo last operation Page-Up goto previous page Page-Down goto next page
Exit this dialog with the OK button. After MachScreen is started, please set the parameters as shown in in picture 1. Menu: Options -> Settings Picture 1
You can create a new, or modify an existing screen-set. We will start with a new screen-set. Click on icon „New“. A dialog box opens up. In the „page“ box you can specify a page number from 1 to 100. Page number 0 is special page (persistant page), every ctrl-item from page 0 will appear on all pages. Set the dimension you want. These extensions define the size of a frame, that can be shown at design time. We will use 1024 x 768 an click OK
On the right hand side of your screen you see the so called property dialog This dialog is divided in 5 main-groups:
Group Page Page: In the box you can select an existing page. Just click the small arrow. The Combobox will expand and show all existing pages. Button New, Hitting this button, opens a dialog to select a new page number and the page size. Button Delete Hitting this button deletes the actual page.
Group Position In this group the position and extensions of the selected ctrl-item is shown. You can change these parameters by clicking in the desired field and edit the value. When button Position is hit, the item is moved / sized to the specified data.
Group Control Combobox on righthandside. Youcanselecthereoneofthe 12(14) ctrlitems. DRO Scrollbar Image Button Jogball LED Label Image Button MDI G-Code Toolpath Slidervert Sliderhor Image buttontransp. Hit theaddbutton, movethemouse-pointertotheplaceyouwanttoputtheselectedctrl-item. Ifyouwanttoplace a ctrl-item moreoften, hold down the „ctrl“-keyclickadd, ateveryleftmouseclickyoucanplacethectrl-item.
Group Colour Depending on the selected ctrl-item the color settings are shown in this group. To change a color, click in the color rectangle. The changed color is for all ctrl-items of this type. If you, for example, change the color for the DRO, the color refers to all DRO‘s in that set-file.
Group property The listbox shows all parameters of the selected item. To change a parameter, select the ctrl-item by clicking it. Double click the parameter in the value coloum.