Working with 3D Tolerancing & Annotation Content

You can visualize 3D Tolerancing & Annotation and xDefine content in 3D Markup and display or highlight it in slides and formats.

This task shows you how to:

Visualize 3D Tolerancing & Annotation Content

You can visualize the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation content.

Before you begin:
  • Open an object with 3D Tolerancing & Annotation or xDefine content.
  • Specify the required preferences to show or hide annotations and technical feature attributes. For more information, see Editing App Specific Preferences.
  1. Optional: From the Annotations section of the action bar, click Display Annotation Sets .
    • All the 3D annotations and technical feature attributes are loaded in the widget.
    • All the other commands in the Annotations section are now available for selection.
  2. Click Annotation Sets Filter .

    For more information about the annotations filters, see 3D Annotation Insight for Dashboard User's Guide: Filtering Annotations.

    Annotations and attributes are displayed depending on the filtering options selected in the Annotations Filter panel.
  3. Click 3D Annotations .
    The 3D Annotations panel containing thumbnails of all the views and captures is displayed.

    For more information, see 3D Annotation Insight for Dashboard User's Guide: Displaying 3D Tolerancing & Annotation Content.

  4. Click Attributes .
    The Attributes panel displays a list of 3D annotations and features exposing some attributes. This panel contains one or several tabs depending on the types of attributes present in the content. To display a tab, at least one attribute of a specific type has to be present.

    For more information, see 3D Annotation Insight for Dashboard User's Guide: Browsing Attributes.

    Notes: Depending on the available roles, you can
    • See all the attributes
    • Create a slide linked to 3D annotations and attributes
    • Highlight the geometries and annotations in a slide
  5. Click Annotation Blanking .
    The background of the annotations is cleared to improve their readability.

Create Slides with 3D Tolerancing & Annotation Content

You can display or highlight the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation or xDefine features in slides and formats.

Before you begin:
  • Display the required 3D annotations and attributes as explained in the above task.
  • Create a markup.
  1. In the 3D Annotations panel, select the required view or capture as a context for the slide.

    Notes:
    • The uncut elements (excluding geometrical bodies) are displayed while displaying single-plane section captures except the aligned and offset section views.
    • When displaying captures associated to the 2D clipping profile, the 2D-clip profile is displayed in the 3D area.

      When a section is displayed (with or without uncut information) or any view with a 2D clipping profile is displayed, the button with a section view name appears at the upper right of the widget. When you click this button, it removes both the sectioning and the 2D clipping profile representation, if any.

  2. From the Attributes panel or in the 3D area, select the attributes to be highlighted in the slide.

    These selected attributes are contexts for the slide.

    Notes:
    1. You can also hide annotations from a slide using the Hide contextual command.
    2. A slide pointing to layered product features also saves the current representation mode (flat, elevated, or elevated no bonding). When a slide pointing to one or several layered product features is displayed, the saved representation mode is applied to the scene.

    A new column is added in the Attributes panel to display the number of slides in which the attribute is highlighted. Click next to this number, to display; all the slides associated with the respective attribute, one after another.
  3. From the Markup section of the action bar, click Slide .

    Alternatively, in the attributes table, click next to any of the feature name to create a slide pointing all the selected features.

    A new slide highlighting the selected attributes is created and its thumbnail is added in the Slides panel. If the slide is pointing to a single feature, the name of the feature is used as the title of the slide. You can choose not to name the slide with the feature name using a preference option. For more information, see Slide.
    Note: You cannot change the context of the slide after the creation of the slide.
  4. Add the required markup features to the slide and create formats from the slide.