The purpose of the style preview is to visualize and check the pieces that are ready to be sent to nesting. You can arrange the pieces in the preview area by clicking on the piece, and dragging. To visualize the content of the final style, you must click on the Preview Styles and Components content button. The manner in which the pieces are arranged in each style depends on the position of the pieces from the model when the style was created. All the pieces and the quantity set for them will be displayed in the Preview style window. The quantity declared for each piece is displayed by default in Preview style, placed on top of the original piece. The quantity can be placed by default at the bottom of all the original pieces, being distributed on a row.
This option can be set in the Settings with the following parameters:
Overlapped Instances unchecked – the default position of the quantity will be displayed at the bottom of the original pieces;
Overlapped Instances checked– the default position of the quantity will be displayed on top of the original piece.
Select the size for which the pieces will be displayed in Preview style from the main window, the Activity area–Base size. The model’s base size is displayed in the Preview style window.
After the window opens, you can filter the pieces from your worksheet by Model, Style or Component and Size. In the preview window you can filter the style name by inserting characters in the Components edit. The applied filter remains memorized after closing the window.