Using the Stacking Management

Use Stacking Management to manage plies groups, sequences, plies, and cut-pieces.

  1. Click Display Columns to add or remove columns from the display.
  2. Double-click the value of the Show attribute of any element
    The value changes from TRUE to FALSE or vice versa, enabling you to hide or display the element, be it at the layer or layer group level.
  3. Press
    • to work at the layer group level.
    • to work at the layer level.
  4. Select one or several rows and click Row Edition to edit the material, show status, and rename the layer (using name, start index, step, and number of digits).
  5. Click Move Row.
    1. In the table, select the row to move.
    2. Select the target row.
      The moved row is copied before the target row.

      When working at layer level, the row is moved only inside the layers group.

  6. Click Swap Rows and select the two rows to swap.

    • Swap Rows applies to any entities.
    • It does not support filters.
    • Rows are swapped only inside the same group.

  7. Click Cut Row or Copy Row and select one or several rows. Click Paste Row to paste them

    Cut Row

    • Is available only on layer level.
    • Supports filters.
    • Supports multiselection.
    Copy Row and Paste Row
    • Are available on both layers group and layer levels.
    • Do not support filters.
    • Support Multiselection.

    All attributes, including the geometry, are pasted. Paste is done before the selected row in the 2D view, at the end of the layer group in the tree. The rows are moved to right location when you leave Stacking Management.
  8. Next to Filters, click Rows.
    1. In the dialog box, enter the values of the required filters.
  9. In the 2D Viewer, select OFF to de-activate the filters.
  10. Use Reframe and Entity Preview as required.

 

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