3D Canvas Options
The 3D Canvas Options window provides a number options for configuring how 3D Canvas works and looks. There are five tabs, the Editing Tab, Operations Tab, Plug-Ins Tab, Scripts Tab, and the Miscellaneous Tab.
Editing
General
Shape Snap-to Interval
When working with shapes, their position and size are modified to align with this Snap to Interval. You may disable Snap To by de-selecting the
on the Primary Toolbar.
Point Snap-to Interval
When working with points, their position and size are modified to align with this Snap to Interval. You may disable Snap To by de-selecting the
Grid
You may disable the grids from being showed by de-selecting
on the Primary Toolbar.
Origin X
The X position in 3D Space where the grid should originate.
Origin Y
The Y position in 3D Space where the grid should originate.
Origin Z
The Z position in 3D Space where the grid should originate.
Size
The size of the grid.
Interval
The number of world units represented by a single grid interval.
Units
You may select between Meters, Feet and Centimeters as your working unit.
Show Vertical Grids
Should vertical grids be shown? This may be overridden by de-selecting
Show Horizontal Grid
Should the horizontal grid be shown? This may be overridden by de-selecting
Operations
You may disable operations so that they no longer appear on the list of available operations. To disable an operation, click on the check box associated with an operation to clear it. You can re-enable the operation at a later time by re-checking the check box associated with the operation.
Note that some operations provided with 3D Canvas are not commonly used so may not be enabled by default.
Plug-Ins
You may disable plug-ins so that they no longer appear on the list of available plug-ins. To disable a plug-in, click on the check box associated with the plug-in to clear it. You can re-enable the plug-in at a later time by re-checking the check box associated with the plug-in.
Import/Export
Plug-Ins
You may disable import/export plug-ins so that they no longer appear on the list of available import/export plug-ins. To disable a plug-in, click on the check box associated with the plug-in to clear it. You can re-enable the plug-in at a later time by re-checking the check box associated with the plug-in.
Mat. Plug-Ins
You may disable material plug-ins so that they no longer appear on the list of available material plug-ins. To disable a plug-in, click on the check box associated with the plug-in to clear it. You can re-enable the plug-in at a later time by re-checking the check box associated with the plug-in.
Scripts
You may disable scripts so that they no longer appear on the list of available scripts. To disable a script, click on the check box associated with the script to clear it. You can re-enable the script at a later time by re-checking the check box associated with the script.
Miscellaneous
General
Documents Folder
3D Canvas is provided with a number of shapes, textures, and libraries (media) which by default are stored in a folder called "3D Canvas" which is located in your "My Documents" folder. Click the button next to "Documents Folder" to change this default folder. Note that 3D Canvas will copy default versions of the 3D Canvas media to this folder and these newly copied default libraries will become the active libraries. 3D Canvas will not however remove the old folder to ensure that changes that you may have made to the default media will not be lost.
3D Canvas Pro has the ability to use all of the features of 3D Canvas Trainworks. Since these features are not needed by most 3D Canvas Pro users, these features are disabled by default. Check this option to make the Trainworks features available to you. You will need to close 3D Canvas Pro and re-open it to enable the Trainworks features.
Note that when this feature is enabled an alternate "extras" download is available on the Help menu that includes sample models specifically for people modelling trains.
Background Colors
The background colors of the scene and libraries can be set by clicking on the associated color preview.
Rendering
Cartoon Rendering Silhouette Width
The width of the cartoon silhouette can be changed with this slider.
Cartoon Rendering Shading Type
You can choose to the shading type for the interior colors of your model. Narrow and Wide have bands of shading whereas None has a single color with no shading.
Clone Translucency
Clones of shapes are shown with translucency to differentiate them from the cloned shape. This option is used to adjust the amount of clone translucency.