General Defaults

General Defaults
The Defaults section sets the global settings to be used throughout the software. Click Application Defaults in the Admin section of the Main Screen. The Defaults screen will open to the Defaults tab.

Mat Defaults
The Mat Defaults section sets the defaults for the New Openings Screen and the Design Editor (described below).
Edit Opening Size First Select the default position for the Opening Size Field position on the New Openings Screen. Select Edit Opening Size First to display the Opening Size field first. Unselect Edit Opening Size First to display the Outside Size field first.
Layer Direction Select the default layer direction for designing and cutting. Select Bottom Up to design from the bottom layer up. Select Top Down to design from the top layer down.
Borders Order Select the default Border Fields order for the New Openings Screen. Border Definition The Border is the area of precisely definable width between the outside edge of a Mat and the edge of the Opening(s) in Designer, Nesting, and Visualization. See: Border Properties See: Border Default Settings Select Bottom Top Sides to display the Border fields as Bottom, Top, Sides. Select Top Sides Bottom to display the Border fields as Top, Sides, Bottom.

Reveals Defaults
Set the default Reveal Values for each template layer. Reveal Definition In a two-layer design, the Reveal is the amount of the bottom matboard showing under the top mat in Designer and Visualize. The standard Reveal between the top and bottom mat is 1/4". See: Designer Reveal Function The top layer is labeled Top.

Screens
Set the default size of the FrameShop screens. Select Auto Maximize* to always maximize the screens to full size. Select Remember Previous Size* to use the previous screen size. Note: Depending on your monitor size and screen settings, some features may be hidden if the display is not set to display full screen, especially on the Cut Preview Screen*.

Standard Sizes

Set the default sizes available for the Openings and Outside from the Sizes button drop-down control.

Sizes Button Definition

The Sizes Button displays the Recent and Standard sizes.

Recent lists the last ten sizes entered.

Standard lists Standard sizes associated with the current unit of measurement.

Size Category

Standard Sizes Listing

Select whether or not to prompt for the image scale when an image file is loaded in Visualization.

Visualization Definition

The Visualize software allows the user to create a digitally finished product using the selected frames, matboards and the artwork.

This makes it easy to present several different variations of the design for the customer to pick from.

See: Visualization

Select Get Scale on File Load to prompt for image scale when loading an image.
Unselect Get Scale on File Load to load the image without a prompting for the image scale.

Select whether to limit the size of images file loaded into Visualization.

Visualization Definition

The Visualize software allows the user to create a digitally finished product using the selected frames, matboards and the artwork.

This makes it easy to present several different variations of the design for the customer to pick from.

See: Visualization

Select Limit Image Size and enter the Max Dimension of the image file size.
Unselect Limit Image Size to allow any image size to be loaded.