Supporting Tools
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Contains tools that can be used by support engineers for resolving problems, as follows.
Command Window – Activate or hide the command window. See Command Window.
Interrupt – Show the command window and interrupt the main loop of the CADMATIC Hull program and control is given to the HullGUI (formerly Eagle) program. Enter do in the Command Window to switch control back to the application loop.
Reset Panel/List – Close any open dialogs and lists currently open.
System Status – Show information about the current state of the system.
CAM Checkcod – Show the CAM input.
Easy Icon – Make new icons for the panels.
Making new icons
- Icon Size – Create an icon with the indicated width and height. If you select Manual box, you can drag a selection box around an area by indicating two corner points. Otherwise an icon is created from the content of the entire screen.
- Icon Colors – Define the background and foreground colors of the icon.
- Icon File – Type in the icon path and icon name, or browse to a bmp file. Using the environment variables such as -ncgnorms is also allowed.
The Create Icon button creates one bitmap with the defined name, and three other bitmaps with the prefixes tu, td and tf that are used for the icon presentation on a panel.
View Log Files – Display log files.