Creating Frames

You can create frames to organize elements.

Before you begin: Open a 3DShape with geometric elements, a car model, for example.

See Also
About Organizing Geometric Elements
About Soft Parametric
  1. From the Surfacing section of the action bar, click Organize .

    Note: De-activating the icon only minimizes the Organize panel, but does not end the command. The Organize command is running while the app is active.

  2. Click Create Frame in the Frames section.
    An empty frame "Frame 1" is created.
  3. Double-click "Frame 1" and enter a name, for example "Wheels".
  4. Select all elements belonging to the car wheels and click Add Selected Elements in the "Wheels" frame row.
    The selected elements are added to the "Wheels" frame.
  5. Create a frame "Glasses" and add all elements belonging to the car glasses to it.
  6. Hover over the frame rows.
    The elements belonging to the frames prehighlight.

  7. Click "Glasses" to make it the current frame.
  8. Select "MASTER" in the Display Lists section and set the "DEFAULT" and "Wheels" frames to No Show .

    You can specify the frame mode:

    OptionDescription
    Active You can modify the elements of active frames provided that you selected the "MASTER" or the user-defined display list they belong to.
    Template You cannot select and modify elements. You can only use the wireframe display.
    No Show You can set the elements to the hidden mode.

    Note: You can change the state for all but the current frame. Do not select the None display list.

    Only the Glasses frame elements are displayed.

  9. Hover over the rows of the hidden frames.
    The elements belonging to the frames prehighlight.

  10. Click the "Wheels" frame.
    The frame is set to Active and its elements are displayed.

  11. Optional: Switch the Play /Pause mode to define the update behavior when sculpting the elements.
    • Elements belonging to frames that are set to Play mode are immediately updated (through Adapt or Rebuild in the Soft Parametrics section). Continuity conditions restore.
    • Elements belonging to frames that are set to Pause mode are not updated. Sculpting is faster and more precise.