About Slides

A slide can be seen as an alternative view of an assembly in a defined state. It enables you to study a variant of your mock-up by defining specific component positions and specific attributes.

This page discusses:

Slides

In slides, you can create review data (notes), and overload attributes.

In slides, you can create the following kinds of review data (notes):

  • graphic annotations
  • text annotations
  • measures
  • sections

You can overload the following attributes:

  • component positioning (using Robot manipulation, Cumulative Snap, or Explode Assemblies commands)
  • component graphical attributes (color, transparency, line type, and line thickness)
  • component hide or show state
  • rendering style.

Overloading of attributes such as graphical properties, and show or hide state, is limited to products. That is, these modifications are not replicated between slide and assembly for products. However, for parts, models and manikins these modifications will be replicated (modifications on parts, models and manikins are always replicated in both directions). Likewise, modifications in slide context to product attributes that are not in the above list (of attributes that can be overloaded) will be replicated on the assembly.

Overloaded Attributes and the Relationship Between a Slide and the Associated Assembly

This sub-topic discusses the relationship between a slide with overloaded attributes and the associated assembly.

  • Modifications to the assembly will impact those attributes of the slide that are not overloaded (so, for example, if you make some modifications to the assembly immediately following the slide creation, all of these modifications will impact the slide).
  • Modifications to the slide never impact the assembly, the result of such modifications to the slide is to overload the modified attributes.

    Graphical attributes, hide / show state, and viewpoint, once modified in the slide, will be considered overloaded. The overloaded values do not impact the assembly. These overloaded attributes will subsequently be independent from the assembly, that is modifications to the corresponding attributes in the assembly will not impact the values of the attributes in the slide.

    Position attributes are implicitly overloaded when modified in the review.

Applicative Data Available in Review Context

This sub-topic discusses the applicative data available in review context.

The following applicative data is available in the review context:

  • Measures
  • Sections
  • 2D Markers
  • 3D Markers

All applicative data is created directly under the review node and is common to all slides that are created for this review.

If the most recently applied slide currently has no annotations, the annotations from other slides are displayed with a grey background color in the tree.

Miscellaneous Information

This sub-topic provides miscellaneous information regarding slides.

The Assembly is the Reference for Slide Creation

Slide creation always uses the assembly as the reference. Any modifications to attributes in the assembly will effect every slide that does not overload those modified attributes.

Slide Linked to Sheet in 2D Validation

In a 2D Validation context, in the case of images containing multiple sheets, the slide is linked to the sheet which is the current one at the time of its creation.

Propagation of Overloaded Attributes in Review Context

The propagation of attributes in review context will work exactly as in assembly context. Note, however, that the propagation of the value of a product's overloaded attribute to its children will not cause the child product's attribute to be considered overloaded.

Save Command in Review Context

The Save command will be enabled in review context, you should be aware that it has no effect on the assembly.

Review In-work Context

The review in-work context is persistent, i.e. when you save a review, the exact context is saved with the review. If the context contains any modifications that were not saved in a slide, then when you open the review the next time, these modifications will still be seen as in-work. If you then apply a slide, an information box will indicate that there are modifications that have not been saved.

Real Time Rendering Entities Inside Slides

Environments, Lights, Cameras and Stickers can be created inside slides. Only the Hide/Show attribute can be managed. These options are available if you have a Real Time Rendering license.