Lighting Settings Controls
The Illumination light temperature active only when Back Lit is chosen. Selections are Warm White 2700K, Natural White 4000K (default), Cold White 6500K, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan and Magenta.
Light Intensity control bar
Adjusts the strength of illumination when Back Lit.
Front Lit Button (exclusive)
Select to preview image as a filament painting (i.e. the print is to be lit from the front).
Back Lit Button (exclusive)
Select to preview image as a colored lithophane or a mixed mode filament painting with the light source positioned behind the print. Used by itself, it does not affect filament layer heights.
Slicer View Button (exclusive)
Select to preview the print as it would appear in a properly configured slicer view. Select Front or Back Lit button to restore to blended view. As an alternative, press and the scroll control button to temporarily switch to Slicer View while mouse cursor is in the preview window.
Select from Filament Painting or Lithophane modes. Filament Painting is normally the default and sets the Front Lit button to on. Lithophane mode invokes the Back lit mode and inverts the layer heights of populated filaments (sliders and on Color Core).
General Options and Operations
Remesh (momentary)
Recomputes the model mesh in the unlikely event that control actions are not properly reflected in the displayed geometry model. (May be removed in later versions.)
Wireframe check box
Changes the preview to show the geometry model's wireframe. Use Reset View button to restore
Reset View (momentary)
Press to restore properly scaled preview after a zoom, tilt or pan operation operation. Also used to clear Wireframe check box and restore normal preview.
Describe Button (momentary)
Opens a popup window listing the description of the current filaments and layer swaps needed in the slicer. Note: The information is also written in a [project_name]_describe.txt file when a project is saved.
Negative Button (toggle on/off)
Reverses the heights in the luminance map of an image - ON = dark (low) to light (high). Off = light (high) to dark (low). ON is the default setting for a filament painting; OFF for a lithophane. Selecting Lithophane mode turns this button off, but the button has no impact on Blending Type selection.
Width
The width of the model in mm. Note that the aspect ratio of the model is set by the image, so that this value might be adjusted to be consistent with the image aspect ratio.
Height
Height of the model in mm consistent with the image aspect ratio.
Border Width
Width of the border in mm when the Border Button is selected. The image shrinks by the width of the border. The border width is dependent on the relative model height and width. It has no effect if Border Button is not selected.
Border Depth
The height of the border in mm when the Border Button is selected. It can be taller than the overall height of the image part of the model. Its color is determined by the height of the color layer it ends on. If it is taller than the image part, its color corresponds to the color at the top of the image.
Full Range
When selected, if the luminance of an image does not extend over the full range of zero to one (black to white) the luminance range is stretch linearly to fill the entire range. This control is disabled in Color Match Luminance mode because the luminance mapping is no longer a linear function.
Border Button (toggle)
Places a rectangular border around the model. Does not follow the edges of an image with a transparent outline.
