Set the view, background and model appearance — gull system handbook

Settings of a web configurator's 3D view: preview background, curve deviation and angle, keep centred, recolouring appearances, textures, camera and centre, a view per layout.

Set the view, background and model appearance

Three groups on the model node: how the model is shown, how its colours look, and where it is looked at from. The scene and lighting follow the SOLIDWORKS scene at export.

How the model is shown

• Row: Preview background - Meaning: the colour behind the model
• Row: Curve deviation (mm), Curve angle (°) - Meaning: smoothness of rounds at export; smaller values = a finer mesh and a larger library
• Row: Keep centred - Meaning: the model always stays in the middle of the window

Model appearance

Library texture lists show on the page as a flat colour — texture images are not sent to the server. The customer picks "Oak", the order carries "Oak", but on the page they see brown.

The view of the model

• Sliders Up / down (X), Left / right (Y) and Zoom; 0° is the front view.
• Centre horizontally and Centre vertically in percent shift the model in the window.
• For this view stores a different camera for Tablet or Mobile; Back to inherited clears it.

Scene and lighting

They have no control. The environment (studio, outdoor, factory, interior) is picked at export from the SOLIDWORKS scene's name and gull system's lighting is used. For different light, change the scene in the model and export again.

The view, background and recolouring are live settings: Publish is enough, no export needed. Curve deviation and the scene, by contrast, take effect only with a new export.