About Graphic Properties

In 3D Navigate, you can display and apply the graphic properties of a product so the rendering is closer to the native apps.

This page discusses:

Access

In 3D Navigate, you can only display the graphic properties. You can create them in CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE Native Apps, in CATIA V5, or in SOLIDWORKS apps. For more information, see Managing Object Properties.

Inheritance Mechanism

In 3DEXPERIENCE Native Apps, you can apply graphic properties on the reference, instance, or occurrence.

In3D Navigate, the inheritance mechanism depends on what was defined in the native app:

  • On references, the graphic properties are applied on all occurrences of the reference.
  • On instances, the graphic properties are applied on all occurrences of the child reference of the instance.
  • On occurrences, the graphic properties are applied only on the occurrences in context of the root of the session. Any other occurrence not starting from the root (from a sub-assembly for example), is not displayed.

For more information, see 3DEXPERIENCE | PLM Components | Product Modeler | Product Graphic Properties.

Available Commands

The inheritance mechanism is applied for the following properties:

  • Graphic properties:
    • Color
    • Transparency
  • Hide/Show
    Note: The Hide/Show graphic properties are displayed in both and . These graphic properties can be transiently overridden using the Hide/Show commands. The changes made to the hide/show status are only kept during the session, they are lost when the data is removed of when you refresh the widget.

The graphic properties for colors and opacity are defined on the lowest colorization layer. As a result, they can be overridden by any other colorization layer, such as:

  • Colorization option from the 6WTags
  • Search in current dashboard results
  • External KPIs
The resulting rendering is a union of graphic properties colors/opacity and of other color layers listed above. If the same object is colored in both cases, the most recent layer is applied. Since the graphic properties are always the oldest layer, it is overridden.

In 3D Navigate, some colors may not be applied on the root path if the path contains subpaths that have overloaded the graphic properties color defined previously.

For example, if you first defined a color on occurrence B:

B

|_C

|_D

Then you open this structure in 3D Navigate:

A

|_B

|_C

|_D