Tools Section

The Tools section of the action bar provides app-specific commands for diagnosing deviation between elements and for performing terrain slope analysis.

For information about standard commands in this area, see the Native Apps Common Services.

This page discusses:



Geolocated Point
Creates a geolocated point.
See Adding a Geolocated Point.
App Options
Displays or hides the app options panel.
Object Properties
Accesses options for various visualization modes and graphic properties.
Action Pad
Provides a quicker access to favorite commands.
To add commands to the Action Pad, click the Customize button (if available), or select Me > Preferences > Customize. The Customize button is available when the action pad does not contain any command.
B.I. Essentials
Business Intelligence enables you to get information on the 3D objects in session.
Add to Favorites
Adds to the list of favorites.
Catalog Browser
Allows you to navigate the catalog browser and lets you use an element.
Links and Relations
Diagnoses incidents on links and relations.
Action Bar Customization
Starts the customization mode of the action bar.
Quick Select
Enables a quick selection.
Material Browser
Opens the materials browser.
Library Browser
Creates parameters and formulas.
Formula
Creates parameters and formulas.
See Creating a Formula.
Language Browser
Opens the language browser to write scripts.
Design table
Creates a design table.
See Creating a Design Table from an Existing File.
Equivalent Dimensions
Creates an equivalent dimension feature.
Creating Equivalences Between Features.
Insert New Object Parameter
Inserts an object's parameter under the selected object.
Engineering Template Instantiation
Instantiates an engineering template.
See Instantiating an Engineering Template Containing Meta Inputs.
Measure Item
See Flyout for Measuring Item.
Measure Between
Measures the distance or the angle between two selected objects, and saves the measurement results under an active 3D shape representation.
See Measuring Distance Between Geometric Entities.
Measure Inertia Data
Measures Inertia data.
See Measuring Inertia in the Context of a Representation.
Clipping Tool
Lets you make dynamic sectioning and thus clip the objects outside of a defined Region of interest (ROI).
Ruler
Displays and manipulates 2D or 3d area coordinate axes.
Geometrical Set
See Flyout for Inserting Geometrical Sets.
BIM Attributes
Allows you to attach attributes to BIM, and assign extensions to specify element attributes according to classification standards.
See Adding and Editing BIM Attributes
Semantic Geometry Tagger
Provides a visual semantic tag on geometries to help you diagnose the BIM model and assign missing semantic tags on geometries.
See Tagging and Publishing Semantic Geometry Elements.
BIM Manager Editor
Allows the BIM manager to track the progress of a civil engineering project by analyzing the mockup (attributes and extensions) and identifying missing elements.
Using the BIM Manager Editor.


Capture Component Specifications
Defines component positions with the help of axis systems, selects object types as components, captures component specifications needed to instantiate components, and instantiates components in part context.
Defining Specification Features.


Define Specification
Defines a specification from a feature so it can be later instantiated as a product.
See Civil Engineering 3D Design: Defining Specifications.
Power Copy
Creates a power copy.
Click to create a power copy template from selected features; for example, geometry, literals, formulas, and constraints.
See 3D Templates Capture: Creating a power Copy.
Instantiate from Representation
Instantiates a template stored in a representation saved in the database.
See 3D Templates Capture: Manage Templates Section.


Deviation Analysis
Colors specific zones of the terrain mesh according to a color scale associated with a range of angle values to identify terrain singularities, when it is projected onto a horizontal plane.
See Performing a Deviation Analysis.


Link Spreadsheet
Creates a link between model feature attributes and a spreadsheet.
See Creating, Updating, and Using a Link Spreadsheet.


Open OSM Map
Imports OSM Maps.
See OSM Map Files.

Flyout for Measuring Item

Measure Item
Measures the different parameters of a different object depending on its type and shape, and saves the results under an active 3D shape representation.
Measuring Geometric Entities.
Measure Thickness
Measures tickness of a selected object, and saves the results under an active 3D shape representation.
See Measuring Thickness.

Flyout for Inserting Geometrical Sets

Geometrical Set
Creates a geometric set.
See Part Design User's Guide: Managing Geometrical Sets.
Ordered Geometrical Set
Creates an ordered geometric set.
See Part Design User's Guide: Managing Ordered Geometrical Sets.