Visualization

The Visualization options let you customize visualization-related settings for Product Finder.

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Explore Strategy in the 3D Area

No geometry

Select the No geometry radio button to visualize no geometry in the 3D area when exploring the selected content. Only the root of the structure is displayed in the tree (fast).

By default, this option is deactivated.

Partial outer skin with quality

Select the Partial outer skin with quality radio button to visualize a partial indexed simplified geometry of the structure in the 3D area when exploring the selected content. Only the outer skin of the structure is displayed with a variable quality. Move the quality slider to modify the number of rays intersecting the geometry to visualize. The higher the number the less partial the geometry. Since the outer skin is computed by index that may not be up to date, the displayed geometry might not exactly represent the design structure but it is faster to load.

By default, this option is activated.

On servers without Indexation Server installed, this option is not available.

Indexed simplified geometry

Select the Indexed simplified geometry radio button to visualize an indexed simplified geometry of the complete structure in the 3D area when exploring the selected content. Since the indexed simplified geometry is computed by an index that may not be up to date, what is displayed might not exactly represent the design structure but it is faster to load.

By default, this option is deactivated.

On servers without Indexation Server installed, this option is not available.

Simplified geometry

Select the Simplified geometry radio button to visualize a simplified representation of the geometry of the complete structure in the 3D area when exploring the selected content. It is not recommended to use that mode for big structures as it takes a lot of time to compute the complete simplified geometry.

By default, this option is deactivated.

By default, on servers without Indexation Server installed, this option is activated.

Expand Strategy in the 3D Area

Nothing but simplified geometry on local leaves

Select the Nothing but simplified geometry on local leaves radio button to visualize the simplified geometry of the node in the 3D area when expanding it down to its Representation level.

By default, this option is activated.

Partial outer skin of each child with quality

Select the Partial outer skin of each child with quality radio button to visualize a partial indexed simplified geometry of the structure in the 3D area when expanding a node. Only the outer skin of each child is displayed with a variable quality. Move the quality slider to modify the number of rays intersecting the geometry to visualize. The higher the number, the less partial the geometry. Since the outer skin is computed by an index that may not be up to date, the displayed geometry might not exactly represent the design structure but it is faster to load.

By default, this option is deactivated.

On servers without Indexation Server installed, this option is not available.

Indexed simplified geometry of all children

Select the Indexed simplified geometry of all children radio button to visualize an indexed simplified geometry of the complete branch in the 3D area when expanding a node. Since the index may not be up to date, the displayed geometry might not represent the exact structure as it is saved in the database but it is faster to load.

By default, this option is deactivated.

By default, on servers without Indexation Server installed, this option is not activated.

Simplified geometry of all children

Select the Simplified geometry of all children radio button to visualize a simplified representation of the geometry of the complete branch of the selected node in the 3D area.

By default, this option is deactivated.

Visualization performances

Standard visualization

Select the Standard visualization radio button to activate the standard visualization mode available for any content without any specific optimization.

By default, this option is activated.

Progressive visualization

Select the Progressive visualization radio button to activate the progressive loading of objects. Important: this option will cost more time to load.

By default, this option is deactivated.

2D documents

Automatically display 2D documents

Select the Automatically display 2D documents check box to activate automatic 2D Document display.

By default, this option is deactivated.

Selection in the 3D Area

Select Representations

Check the box to select representations in the 3D area.

Uncheck the box to select parent references instead of representations.

By default, this option is activated.