Preview

The Preview page provides a zoom on a particular item: Component, Drawing, Document, Media or any type of file.

A Preview of a SOLIDWORKS assembly, ASSY500_HEAD ASSEMBLY is shown below.



Preview page details

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Section

Detail

1

Title bar

The item’s title including the filename and basic attributes.

2

Action buttons

  • the Star icon to bookmark the item
  • the Compare icon to add item to comparison
  • a Download button to download the file to your browser. Depending on your machine’s settings and installed software, possibility to open the file in viewing or authoring software. Note that when opening an assembly, the depending parts are not automatically downloaded.
  • an Open button to open the file directly in the PDM system (if configured). See Open items in an application

3

Component properties and drawings

The properties retrieved from inside the binary file. Additional properties are displayed in the Explore tab.

4

Preview image

A large image of the item.

For parts, it is a 2D or 3D image of the part. Click on the play button to access the 3D Viewer

For assemblies, it is a 2D image of the assembly.

For drawings, it is a rendering of the drawing itself (non-zoomable).

For documents, OnePart shows a render of the first page.

For media and other files, OnePart shows an arbitrary capture whenever possible.

For some formats (including CATProduct) and some individual files, the image cannot be generated - a place holder is shown.

5

Computed properties

These are the attributes either detected or computed by OnePart such as:

  • Main colors

  • Bounding box

  • Hole detection
6

Container properties

The attributes of the file (or source) that the item comes from such as:

  • Source type

  • Source

  • the file Folder is clickable, leading to the List view with all items in the same directory; see Same location

  • the File Author(s) are clickable, leading to the List view with all items with the same author; see Same author

7

Tagging

You can add tags for the item that are visible to everyone and available as categories in the Why facet. See also Tagging



OnePart displays other attributes and related parts if applicable:
8

Related parts

Available only for Components and Drawings

Parents (see Related parts)

9 Children (Available only for Components and Drawings); see Assembly children
10

3D similarity panel

Available for parts only, includes a configuration icon to adjust the similarity thresholds.

11

Related documents

Available only for Components and Drawings.

This assembly example does not have any related documents.

12

Identical files panel

The panel is not displayed if there is only one, which is itself.

An indicator exists to identify the principal file; see the Grouping feature

13

PDM Part Configurations

Available for parts only that are from SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.

14

Other attributes

Additional attributes retrieved from the binary file are displayed.

Note: For other item types, such as PDF, Word, HTML, JPG, an image preview does display. However, a generic image displays if not supported by Exalead CloudView.

For details on part features, see Computed properties.