Basic Concepts

When one or more annotations are selected, pointed geometries are highlighted. Conversely, when one or more geometries are selected, annotations pointing to them are highlighted.

It is possible to benefit from the cross-highlight function within a part.

Specifications are retrieved from the FTA data model as in 3D Tolerancing & Annotation.

The app gradually loads the annotations of a part containing annotations.

• When the loading is done, the annotation set corresponding to the new root appears:
  • Its views and captures are added to the 3D view browser panel.
  • All visible views, captures, and annotations are displayed, while the other ones stay hidden.
• The geometry of the new root is visualized as defined in the model without any filtering.
• In case no annotation was found inside a specific root, the latter is removed from the section of the 3D annotation filter panel.
  Notes:

  • The display of the annotations is based on their creation level:

    Annotations Creation Level	Is a tessellated representation of the text generated?	Remarks
    Version 5 V5-6 Release 2015, 3DEXPERIENCE R2017x, and later	Yes	These tessellated representations are reused while displaying the annotations, on all devices.
    Versions earlier than Version 5 V5-6 Release 2015 and 3DEXPERIENCE R2017x	No	If the fonts used for the original annotations are not available on the device used to display them, annotations might be displayed differently from the original ones.

  • For STEP files stored in the 3DDrive, tessellated representations are generated for the Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI) text representations and reused while displaying them.

Thumbnails appear in the left-hand panel when you load a part containing annotations. For each annotation set, a collapsible section with a section header is created. If there is only one annotation set, no section header is displayed.

Inside each section:

• All views are listed as thumbnails in the same default order as in the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation tree. Sub-views of offset and aligned sections are not listed.
• All captures associated with sub-views of an offset or an aligned section are considered as associated with this offset or aligned section. At the end of the section, all captures that do not point a view are listed as thumbnails in the same default order as in 3D Tolerancing & Annotation tree.
• If a view is pointed by several captures, a thumbnail is added for each additional capture pointing to this view.

The panel is composed of:

• A title header with the total number of thumbnails.

  Tip: You can define the width of the panel to display one or more columns. Double-click the title header to toggle between the defined width and the default width.

• A list of thumbnails divided into several sections.

  Each thumbnail contains:

  • A section header, with the name of the part and the name of the annotation set containing it
  • A graphic preview of the view or capture
  • An icon type
  • The name of the view or capture of a view, the name of the capture associated to the v

    In view appears when you hover over the footer.

    
  • A blue border on the left when it has been clicked or tapped, indicating that the corresponding view or capture has already been displayed. When all thumbnails of a given annotation set have been clicked or tapped, all their borders turn to green.

    

A dedicated panel helps you filter annotations contained in any products or any parts of a product, whatever the level of the structure at which they were instantiated.

This panel is divided into three sections:

• Annotation Sets: Shows or hides the annotations contained in 3D annotation sets available in any parts of any roots. An annotation set is available if it is displayed in the 3D area.
• 3D Annotations: Shows or hides all annotations of visible annotation sets and all annotations contained in views and captures of visible annotation sets.
• Attributes: Shows or hides all attributes assigned to annotations and features.

In addition, you can filter annotations directly from the 3D area. A set of commands let you hide or show the annotations you need.

When you click a thumbnail to display a section, a clipping of geometry is performed.

When the part is multi-instantiated, the clipping is based on the instance used to enable the annotation set containing the section.

If the geometry is clipped or partly hidden, a filter label appears at the top right corner of the 3D area.

Hovering over features displays tooltips that provide additional information such as hyperlinks, comments related to annotations, failure modes, attributes, and tolerances.

The tooltips display only the first five lines of the whole list of parameters available for the selected elements.

Click Read more to display the Attribute Values panel that shows all required attributes. For more information, see, Browsing Attributes.