Plasticity Essentials
Preferences

Preferences

To open the Preferences window, click the P menu in the top left corner and select Preferences. You need to restart Plasticity when you change the settings.

Navigation

Navigation Settings

  • Zoom to cursor:
    • When enabled, zooms in at the cursor position. (Default: Enabled)
  • Rotate around cursor:
    • When enabled, the view rotates around the cursor position. (Default: Enabled)
  • Zoom vertical:
    • When enabled, zooms in/out with vertical dragging using Ctrl + Middle Button. (Default: Enabled)
  • Invert zoom direction:
    • When enabled, inverts the zoom direction. (Default: Disabled)
  • Invert wheel direction:
    • When enabled, inverts the mouse wheel direction. (Default: Disabled)

Navigation Presets

  • You can choose presets for the same controls as other 3D software.

Performance

You can specify GPU rendering quality, CPU facet quality, and enable or disable Ambient Occlusion in Shader Mode.

Appearance

  • You can select accent colors, supporting colors, viewport background colors, and grid colors.
  • Additional options for controlling the size of Control Points, Vertices, Edges, and Curve Segments.

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

Adjust the Ambient Occlusion appearance in the viewport by using the Radius (1) and Falloff (2) settings. Note that the Radius value is a percentage of your current length unit. For example, if you use meters and enter a value of 10, it converts to 0.1 meters. The Radius can range from 0 to 1000, while Falloff ranges from 0.0 to 10.0. (Default: 15 and 0.5)

Ambient Occlusion Settings

Backup

  • You can take backups in preparation for emergencies.

Server

  • Configure the server to be used with the Blender Bridge.
  • The default is Host: localhost, Port: 8980. Match these values with the settings in the Blender addon.

SpaceMouse

  • These are the settings for using the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse.
  • The SpaceMouse Compact, SpaceMouse Pro, and SpaceMouse Enterprise have been confirmed to work on Windows and macOS. Operation on Linux is unconfirmed.
  • Control Pan Speed, Rotate Speed, and Zoom Speed.

General

  • Automatic invoke commands like offset, extrude, and fillet, based on the current selection.
    • When enabled, automatically calls commands such as offset, extrude, and fillet based on the current selection (Default: Enabled).

Advanced

  • You can enable or disable the last active session on startup in Plasticity. (Default: Enabled)
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