Edit | Auto Rebuild

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Edit | Auto Rebuild

Auto Rebuild


See also Rebuild Now


Click Auto Rebuild to switch or toggle between:

Enabled: “always rebuild your model when you do a command”. The model is slower to build complex model.

Disabled: “do not always rebuild your model when you do a command”. The model is faster to build complex models.

Auto-Rebuild - enabled

MD-Icon-AutoRebuild

The model should be up-to date.

The model rebuilds each time you do a new command - see also Top-Tip below.

Auto-Rebuild - disabled

MD-Icon-Rebuild-inactive

The model may not rebuild each time you do a new command.

When the model is large, or complex, it is faster to do commands when Auto Rebuild is disabled.

However, you must enable Auto-Rebuild when you want to make sure the model is up-to-date.

1.Click to enable Auto-Rebuild when you want to rebuild the model.


Top-Tip

To make sure a complex model is up-to-date:

1.Click Rebuild Now

2.Click to disable Auto Rebuild, and then click again to enable Auto-Rebuild.

3.Move the Master-Machine-Angle to 0 . Do ALT+H or Run menu > Home.

4.Edit a Part, then exit the Part-Editor. This also rebuilds the model.

5.If there is a 2D-Cam in the model, open then close the 2D-Cam dialog

6.Click Rebuild now again.