Marker:Piece Bar
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This command will display or hide the Piece Bar (at the top of the marker). The bar contains a small visual images of the marker pieces.
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Location
- View Menu: Piece Bar
Bar Explanation
- The pieces appears in the same order as they saved in PDS.
- Beneath the piece thumbnails you get the piece name and the quantity of the specific piece. In case that there are more then one styles on the marker - you can have the style name display as well (have the Show Style Name In piece bar option checked in the preferences dialog)
- The left number is the ordinal number of the piece in the marker order. The number at the right represents the quantity of pieces that left to placed on the marker.
Note: In markers that include sizes, the information on the piece bar changes depends on the selected size in the sizes bar.
In this example the piece in the left (FT) is the first in the file - it was numbers as number 1. The number 2 at the right of the colon shows that two pieces left to be placed. The piece to the right (BK) has the number 11 as an ordinal number due to those 10 sizes that were ordered from the previews piece. This piece has only one left to be placed on the marker.
Here you can see that one piece of BK size O, was placed on the marker and there are no pieces left to be placed from this pattern. Note , that now, clicking on the piece will no bring any pieces down. none left to be placed.
the quantity of pieces that have opposite piece attribute (up/down or left/right) will show spread in come. In this example the FT piece has quantity of 2. One left piece and one right piece.
The left piece was placed on the marker. The 0 represent that no left pieces left to be placed .
- In addition to the piece name and the selected size name, the initials of the main attributes related to the piece display as well.
M - Mirror allowed. The piece can be flipped along the X or Y
U - Up/Down Folding allowed. When a piece is defined with up/down folding allowed a -U- is displayed in the piece bar.
S - Left/Right Folding allowed. hen a piece is defined with Left/Right
L - Locked piece for Automatic nesting.
B - Buffer is declared to that piece. You can also view the buffer on the thumbnail.
Operation
- Enable the 'Piece Bar' from the View Menu.
- The main use of the bar, besides viewing the ordered and placed pieces, is to place to pieces on the marker. Left click on piece thumbnail to bring the piece down to the table.
- You can change the pieces order by clicking on the piece drawing, keep the mouse click down and drag it to the location.
1. Click to select on the piece that you want to move.
2. Keep the mouse key down and move it to the new location.
3. Release the mouse button.
- To select more then one piece, hold the Ctrl key while selecting the pieces.
hold the Ctrl key while selecting the pieces to select more then one piece.
