3D Shape Infrastructure

The 3D Shape Infrastructure options let you customize general settings for 3D Shape Infrastructure.

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This page discusses:

Display in Tree

There are six types of elements you can display in the tree. To display them, select the respective check boxes:

  • External References
  • Constraints
  • Parameters
  • Relations
  • Bodies under operations
  • Expand sketch-based feature nodes at creation

External References
Copies with links of geometry from other documents.

By default, this check box is selected.

Constraints
Dimensional and geometrical constraints created in the document.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Parameters
Parameters created using the Knowledge Advisor capability. For more information about parameters and relations, see the CATIA Knowledge Advisor Users Guide.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Relations
Relations (formulas) created using the Knowledge Advisor capability. For more information about relations, see the CATIA Knowledge Advisor Users Guide.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Bodies under operations
Bodies attached to other bodies in different ways (via Add, Assemble, Remove, Intersect, Union Trim operations). The option is selected.

The option is cleared.

This option is available only with Part Design. For more information, see Part Design Users Guide: Associating Bodies.

By default, this check box is selected.

Expand sketch-based feature nodes at creation
Expands sketch-based features nodes so as to display sketch nodes. If not selected, sketch nodes are present in the tree but you need to click the plus sign to the left of features to expand them.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Display in geometry area

There are five options available for customizing the geometry display:

Only the current operated solid
This option is used when editing features belonging to attached bodies (bodies that underwent Boolean operations) only. It displays
  • only the features of the current body,
  • all the other bodies and geometrical sets directly aggregated to the 3D shape.

This setting can greatly improve the performance whenever you edit these features.

Note: You can also click Only in Current Body in the App Options panel.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Only current body
Displays the geometry of the current part body or open body only.

It is available in the design mode only.

By default, This check box is cleared.

Geometry located after the current feature
This option is reserved for Ordered Geometrical Sets (OGSs) and bodies that can include both Part Design features and Generative Shape Design features (for more information, see CATIA Part Design Users Guide: Hybrid Design). If selected, it displays:
  • the geometry of the current feature and
  • only the Generative Shape Design and the wireframe geometry located after the current feature.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Parameters of features and constraints
Displays the parameters attached to Part Design features and Sketcher constraints permanently.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Axis system display size (in mm)
Lets you define the size of axis systems

By default, the size of axis system is 10.

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Checking operation when renaming

Select the desired option:

No name check
Permits all types of rename operations whatever the locations of the elements in the tree.
Warning: This option is inefficient for geometric elements renamed using the engineering knowledge language.

By default, this option is selected.

Under the same tree node
Prevents two elements belonging to a common node from having the same name. For identical name, a warning message is issued informing that the element you are renaming will be suffixed as 'Renamed'. The check operation is case-insensitive.

By default, this option is cleared.

In the main object
Prevents two elements belonging to the same main node from having the same name. The check operation is case-insensitive.

By default, this option is cleared.