Scanning a 3D Shape in Functional Plastic Parts

You can scan the 3D shape and define a current object without taking the complete 3D shape into account. It is useful for the analysis or the better understanding of the 3D shape design.

  1. From the Review section of the action bar, click Scan or Define In Work Object .

    The Scan window appears enabling you to navigate through the structure of the 3D shape. Moreover, the 3D shape can be updated feature by feature.

  2. Select the Update mode to define the way of scanning: in Functional Plastic Parts, only this mode is available.
    All features of a 3D shape are scanned in the order of the update (which is not necessarily the order of the tree). The current position in the scan graph does not correspond to the in work object: indeed the underlined object in the graph is not necessarily the one underlined in the tree.
    • Datum features appear first; geometrical sets and ordered geometrical sets do not appear in the Scan Graph.
    • Deactivated features appear in the Scan Graph.
  3. Click Display Tree .

    The Scan Tree panel appears above the status bar and displays all the features belonging to the geometrical feature set. You actually need to click the buttons allowing you to move from one current feature to the other.

    • Click:
    • Previous to move to the previous feature.
    • First to move to the first feature.
    • Next to move to the next feature.
    • Last to move to the last feature.
    • First to Update to move to the first element to be updated and consequently update it.
    • Play Update to replay the update of the geometry.

    A progress bar is displayed, while the scenario is being replayed. In case of update errors, the replay stops at the first error. The Update Error dialog box opens.

  4. Click Exit to exit the command.

At each step of the scan operation, you can see both the edition and the highlight views of the "In Work" feature. For the features that have their own protected shapes (protected, cutout, hole features etc.), the scan view shows:

  • The preview shape

  • The faces that it creates

  • The protected volume



For a shape feature like a shellable prism, the scan view shows:

  • Its preview shape
  • The faces that it creates.

For a cut feature, the scan view shows a highlight of the cut surface.

Important: Sketcher elements are not taken into account by the command.

The 3D shape is put in No Show mode, so is its 3D display, to build a new 3D display that contains the same features but in a different order. As a consequence, if a geometrical set or an ordered geometrical set is in No Show mode, it is ignored and its elements are considered as being in Show mode. To put the contents of this geometrical set or ordered geometrical set in No Show mode, use the Geometrical_Set.x object > Hide components contextual command.