Associating a Knowledge Dialog Box with a Typed User Feature

You can design a customized knowledge dialog in the Know-how Apps User Experience app and associate it with a user feature type. You will then be able to edit the user feature instance using the customized knowledge dialog box.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:
  • Create a part containing a pad, a point, a plane based on a face, a hole and a user feature named "UDFHole" based on the hole.
  • Create and deploy a configuration, a knowledge component and a package.
See Also
Creating a User Feature

Create the User Feature

You must first create the typed user feature.

  1. From the Compass, click 3D Modeling Apps and select 3D Templates Capture.
  2. From the Manage Templates section of the Action bar, click User Feature .
    The User Feature Definition dialog box appears.
  3. Select the hole in the 3D area or in the tree.
  4. Click the Parameters tab, select Hole.x\HoleLimit.x\Depth, click Published and enter Depth in the Name box.
  5. Click the Type tab.
    1. Click Auto to generate the Super Type.
      MechanicalFeature appears in the Super Type box.
    2. Enter udfHoleType in the Type1 box and click Generate.
      The Select the Component where to save the type dialog box appears.
    3. Select the component and click OK when done.

The typed user feature is created.

Create the Knowledge Dialog Box

You can associate a dialog box with the user feature you typed.

  1. From the Compass, click 3D Modeling Apps and select Know-how Apps User Experience.
    The Knowledge applicative component dialog box opens.
  2. Type the name of the Knowledge applicative component and click OK.
    The Know-how Apps User Experience application opens.
  3. Click Dialog Box .
    A DialogBox1 appears in the Preview tab.
  4. Switch to the Layout Design tab to create the layout of your dialog box.
  5. Create a dialog box identical to the one below by adding a parameter editor, feature selectors and labels.
  6. Click Associate a Dialog Box to a Technological Object and click HoleEditionDialog under the List of reusable Dialog components in the tree.
    The Manage User Defined Types to be edited dialog box appears showing the available user types.
  7. Select the type, udfHoleType from the list, and click Add new type.
  8. Click Close.
    The dialog box you created is now associated with the type and appears in the runtime view whenever the type it is associated with is applied.
  9. Click Attribute Creation .
    1. In the Create or modify attribute dialog box, enterDialogDepth in the Name box.
    2. Select Length from the Parameter Type scrolling list.
    3. Click OK when done.
  10. Switch to the Knowledge Items tab.
    1. Double-click EditedParameter located below ParameterEditor1. The Pointer edition dialog box opens.
    2. Click the Value name box and click DialogDepth located below User-added Variables in the tree. Click OK when done.
  11. click the Events tab.
    1. Expand the HoleEditionDialog node if need be.
    2. Double-click the cell next to the Init cell.
      The HoleEditionDialog Action definition for Preview event dialog box appears.
    3. In the Knowledge Action scrolling list, select On Init. Click OK when done.
      The Action Editor dialog box appears.
    4. Enter the following script and click OK. 
      if iInstance <> NULL
{
                     FeatureSelector1\SelectedFeature = iInstance->GetAttributeObject("Center")
                     FeatureSelector2\SelectedFeature = iInstance->GetAttributeObject("Plane")
                     DialogDepth = iInstance->GetAttributeReal("Depth") * 1m
}
    5. Double-click the cell next to the OK cell.
      The HoleEditionDialog Action definition for Preview event dialog box appears.
    6. In the Knowledge Action scrolling list, select On OK. Click OK when done.
    7. Enter the following script and click OK. 
      iInstance->SetAttributeObject("Plane",FeatureSelector2\SelectedFeature  )
iInstance->SetAttributeObject("Center",FeatureSelector1\SelectedFeature )
iInstance->SetAttributeReal("Depth", DialogDepth )

iInstance->Update()
      The tab is updated.

Deploy the Package

You must deploy the package before you can test the dialog box.

  1. In Know-how Apps Creation, right-click your package and select xxx object > Options.
  2. Modify your version number, click OK and Save.
  3. Select Me > Preferences 3D Modeling > Multi Discipline Automated Engineering > Know-how Apps Authoring Suit > Know-how Apps Creation.
  4. Select Launch the packages deployment command.
  5. Select your package and click Install Application.

Test the Knowledge Dialog Box

You can test the dialog box you created. To do so, instantiate the typed user feature and double-click it to display the created dialog box.

  1. Instantiate the created user feature.
  2. Double-click the instantiated user feature.
    The knowledge dialog box appears.