Managing Attribute Overload

When you perform a design review, you may create number of slides to study different variants of the mock-up.

Sometimes you might want to:

  • Modify some attributes of a slide and then prefer to remove some of those modifications at a later moment.
  • Save the current graphic properties or activation status in the slide without modifying them.

The ability to modify the attributes overloaded in the slide enables you to perform such scenarios.

Before you begin: Add the Manage Attribute Overload command in any of the sections of the action bar.

For more information, see Customizing Sections in the Action Bar.

  1. Activate a slide and modify a property of one of the objects, for example modify the graphic property, color.
  2. Click Manage Attribute Overload .
    Overloaded attributes are indicated by a filled cell.
  3. In the Manage Attribute Overload dialog box, under Domain, select the domain for which you want to manage overloads.
  4. To remove an overload, select the check-box indicating an attribute overload.
    The cell in the graph will no longer be selected, indicating that the attribute is no longer overloaded.
  5. To overload an attribute that is not yet considered overloaded (For example, the graphic properties), click the corresponding cell in the graph.
    The cell in the graph will now be selected, indicating that the attribute is now considered to be overloaded.
  6. Click OK to validate the modifications.
    The modifications are immediately visible in the 3D area.

Notes:
  • When overloading position or graphic properties using the Manage Attribute Overload dialog box, the initial values of the parameters are the corresponding values for the assembly. Attribute values for the components can then be modified at any time in slide context.
  • When removing position overload from a parent product component, its children will no longer be overloaded from a position point of view. The Manage Attribute Overload dialog box is updated accordingly.
  • A typical scenario of overloading position, graphical properties might be: the user wants to capture in his slide the current values for position / graphical properties, so that if they are modified outside the slide, the slide itself is not impacted. It is similar to a full slide limited to some attributes. Overload position is identical to the command overload position.
  • Unloaded objects cannot be overloaded.