About Captures

The Context Toolbar

The following context toolbar appears when you click or select a view in the in the tree or in the 3D area by selecting the frame of the view.

• Edit Filter:XXX : Edits a capture of a view when the view is associated with at least one capture.
  Note: When several captures are associated with the selected view, the same number of Edit Filter:XXX commands are provided in the context toolbar. The tooltip displays the name of the capture to be edited.
• Capture display area : Captures current tab size into the view display area definition.
• Remove display area : Removes the display area of selected views.
• Capture : Creates a capture when the view is not associated with any capture.

The following context toolbar appears when you click Edit Filter:XXX , and then click or select an element in the work area. You can activate or deactivate visible property using this context toolbar.

This context toolbar provides the following functions:

• When an element is selected, its visual properties are displayed in the context toolbar.
• When you modify the properties of the selected element through the context toolbar, they are memorized to be applied to the next selections. It also allows you to copy the selected property and apply to the next selection. Clicking in an empty area or interacting with the Edit Filter dialog box stops the auto copy on the selections and displays the visual properties of the next selections.

Note the following points when selecting the elements when editing a capture:

• If you select one or several elements, and if those elements are not included in the filter yet, they are automatically added to the filter. Note that auto copy is available only for the first selection. If you select an element which is already filtered, the auto copy of the property is stopped.
• If at least one of the selected elements belongs to the filter, or if the current visual property is selected, no object is added to the filter and the context toolbar displays the common Show/Hide state of all the selected elements.
• If the selected elements are not yet added to a filter, activating the show property adds them to the filter.
  • Captures: Elements that are not filtered are not displayed until the visibility property is activated.
• If you select a view, (in the tree or in the 3D area by selecting the frame of the view), the Select all annotations of the view command appears in the context toolbar.

  Activating this command selects all annotations contained in the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation view and displays the context toolbar near the mouse cursor.

The Visualization Chooser

While editing a capture you can choose the type of visualization you want in the 3D area. The Visualization Chooser is displayed at the upper right corner of the active tab and provides the following preview options:

Type of Visualization		Example
Standard previsualization mode: Shows the content of the filter.
Reversed previsualization mode: Shows all the elements that are not contained in the filter.
Combined previsualization mode: Display filters: Shows all the elements that are not contained in the filter in standard visualization, and the elements that are contained in the filter in half transparent and in specific color.

Immersive Dialog Box

The immersive dialog box appears when you edit a capture. It displays the name of the capture and allows you to change it if required.

Edit Filter Dialog Box

The Edit Filter dialog box comprises of:

• The list of Explicit Filtered Elements: It is composed of:
  • A header line with various sorting options:
    • Sort filtered elements by type of element
    • Sort filtered elements by alphabetical order: Ascending (A to Z) and descending (Z to A).
    • Sort filtered elements by visibility: Ascending (elements with the visual property activated first and the others) and descending (elements with the visual property deactivated, and the others).
• Rows representing filtered elements: Each row contains the following columns:
  • The icon representing the type of element
  • The name of the element
  • Visual properties: The show/hide visual property is available as that of the context toolbar, except the undefined state.
  • Remove element: Allows you to remove the corresponding element from the list and all selected elements of the list. The visual filter is updated accordingly.

• A label displaying the number of selected elements. When no element is selected, it displays No element selected.

The Edit Filter dialog box allows you to:

• Modify the visual properties of the selected elements in the same way as with the context toolbar.
• Remove the elements from the filter.
• Have a visual feedback: When you select a filtered element in the 3D area, the corresponding row in the filtered element list is highlighted. Conversely, if you select a row in the filtered element list, the corresponding filtered element in the 3D area is highlighted. The entire scene appears in white half transparent, and the element appears highlighted in blue.

Restore Show State

The Restore Show State button appears during editing the capture if some elements which must be displayed by the visual filter are in no show mode. Clicking Restore Show State restores permanently the show state of elements visualized through the visual filter.