Working with Slides

You can create, edit, and display a slide to capture the product with different viewpoints and markers.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open a product in Design Validation.
Tip: Specify the slide related preferences as required. For more information, see Table 3.
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About Slides

Create a Slide

You can create slides to display the products in different states, with different measures, sections, and markups.

  1. From the Markup section of the action bar, click Slide .

    You can also create a new slide using the following methods:

    • Click New Slide+ at the upper-right corner of the slides panel.
    • Right-click the thumbnail of any slide and select Slide .

    A new empty slide is created. If a format is linked to the previous slide, the contents of the format are added in this slide.

    The slide appears in the Slides panel on the left of the 3D area. The active slide is marked with a blue bar on the left of its thumbnail.

    Note: When the widget width is smaller than 550 pixels, the panel is automatically hidden in the following cases:
    • After displaying a slide from the Slides panel
    • While creating a new slide
    • While activating or deactivating the markup

  2. Optional: To delete a slide,
    1. Right-click a slide's thumbnail and select Delete.

      To select several slides, press the Shift key and select the required slides.

    2. Select several slides and press the Delete key.

    Whenever a slide is deleted all the features created in it are also deleted. Deleting a slide does not impact the formats associated with that slide. Only the link between the format and the slide is deleted.

The new slide is created and it can be edited or displayed anytime from the Slides panel.

Note: Whenever you create a new slide, the current viewpoint is copied in the new slide. Every slide has its own set of markup features.

Add Replies to Slides

Several users can add their comments on slides by adding replies to these slides.

Before you begin: Create a review containing at least one markup and a slide.
  1. In the slides panel, bring the pointer on the thumbnail of the slide under which you want to create the reply.

    Note: For touch devices, the option is always visible.

    The reply option appears at the upper-right corner in the slide's thumbnail.
  2. Click to create a reply.

    The reply is added under the slide in the panel. The name; and the photo of the reply's creator are displayed along with the relative time of reply creation. If the reply is linked to a highlight, an icon appears in the upper-right corner of the thumbnail. You can also create a reply to a reply slide.

    For each involved person, a different color is displayed around the photo.

    Notes:
    • The reply slides are sorted according to the time of their creation, with the oldest slide being displayed first.
    • All the replies under a slide can be displayed or hidden using the Show replies or Hide replies options.

Edit a Slide

You can edit the previously created slide.

  1. In the Slides panel, select the required slide.

    To see the Slides and replies, click in the left-hand side panel.

    A blue bar on the left of the slide's thumbnail indicates that it is in the editing mode.

  2. Add or remove the 2D or 3D markers, measures, sections, change the viewpoint, or link a format.
  3. To change the name of the slide,
    1. Click the name of the slide in slide's thumbnails in the Slides panel.
    2. Enter the new name for the slide.
    3. Click anywhere outside the thumbnail.

      Important: For changing the name of a slide, make sure that the Display Slide title check box is selected. To verify this, from the Tools section of the action bar, click Preferences .

    Note: If you edit a slide and click another slide's thumbnail in the panel, the changes are stored and a newly selected slide is opened in the edit mode.
  4. Optional: To update the viewpoint of a slide in the thumbnail, click Update viewpoint on that particular thumbnail.

    The Update viewpoint is only available whenever the current viewpoint is different from the viewpoint saved in the slide.

  5. Optional: Click the review activation option next to the review name in the slides panel to hide all the review features in the current slide.
    All the markup features disappear from both show and no show spaces.
    Note: Clicking on any slide thumbnail or the Slide command from the action bar reactivates the markup and all the markup features in both, show that as well as no show spaces of the current slide are visible again. All the other commands except the measure, section, and compare commands are unavailable. You can create temporary measurements and sections using these commands.
  6. Click next to the concerned markup to see the slides and replies created under it.
  7. Right-click the markup name to create another markup, to rename the markup, to see properties of the markup, and to delete the markup.
  8. Drag the slide thumbnail above or below another slide to reorder the slides.

    You can select several slides for reordering by selecting the check box at the left-top corner in their respective thumbnails.

    Important:
    • Slides can be reordered only within the markup, and cannot be moved under a different markup.
    • The reply slides cannot be reordered.