Managing Skin Swapping Groups

You can edit Skin Swapping Groups.

Before you begin: When you create a Skin Swapping for a set of plies, a Skin Swapping Group feature is added to the tree under the stacking node. This feature is used to keep the specification used during the creation of the Skin Swapping.
See Also
Swapping the Skin
  1. Create a Skin Swapping.
    The Skin Swapping Group is created under the Stacking.
  2. Double-click the Skin Swapping Group to edit all the Skin Swappings found in the Skin Swapping Group in one shot.

    Any modification you make in the Skin Swapping Definition dialog box applies to all Skin Swappings.

    Note: When you edit the Skin Swapping Group:
    • If you add new plies to the selection, new Skin Swappings are created for the newly selected plies.
    • If you remove some plies from the selection, the Skin Swappings that exist in these plies are not removed but the modifications are not applied to these Skin Swappings.
    • If you had modified an individual Skin Swapping belonging to the group, the individual modifications are lost when you edit the Skin Swapping Group.

  3. Right-click a Skin Swapping Group and select Delete. You are asked whether you want to delete the corresponding Skin Swappings as well. Click:
    • Yes to delete the Skin Swappings along with the group.
    • No to keep the Skin Swappings and delete only the group.
  4. Add a ply to a sequence or a ply group linked to a Skin Swapping Group, then edit the Skin Swapping Group. You are asked whether you want to apply the Skin Swapping to the added ply too. Click:
    • Yes to apply the Skin Swapping to the added ply.
    • No otherwise.
    In both cases, the Skin Swapping Group is edited.
  5. Right-click a Skin Swapping Group and select Parent/Children to navigate between the Skin Swapping Group, Skin Swappings and related plies.
  6. Although a Skin Swapping Group is created automatically when you swap skins, you may need to create one, for example on older existing data. Right-click an individual Skin Swappings and select Create skin swapping group to create a Skin Swapping Group.

    Skin Swappings that could be added to the same Skin Swapping Group are proposed.

    Note: You can clear unwanted Skin Swappings.