Creating a View or a Specified Area for Operation

You can update the snapshot inside the out-of-date picture marker with the latest views of items in an operation or a specified area. This is associated with an operation or its work instructions. These views are like slides in a presentation. You can also dress up these slides with additions like text or graphic marker. The slides are called 3D work instructions, because they enable viewers to see instructions in terms of your 3D content.

Before you begin:

Open Work Instructions with a system specified as active that has text work instructions already defined in the Textual Instructions.

  1. Select an operation with previously defined work instructions. Example Op 30.


  2. Either;
    • Click Create View for Operation .
    • Click Create View with Specified Area for Operation .

      Create a View by selecting an area on the screen (trap-selection). The original view (and viewpoint) remains active after the new view created to allow you to quickly create more views.

      The window selector appears. .

      Move to place the window selector accordingly then click and drag, then release. The Views panel appears to show a thumbnail of the selected view.

      This is an available (active) view:

      • Whenever there are no existing views for the new selected Operation.
      • When there are already some existing views for the new selected Operation and the views activate.
    Note: The views must be activated, if not the message appears, You must activate views for the operation before you can add Views to it.

    Click Activate Views for Operation if you have multiple views, use this to activate a view once it has been deactivated.

    • The Views panel shows a thumbnail of the view. A check mark at the lower right depicts the activated view.

      A view contains the following information that you can change by right-clicking the view:

      • Update - Updates the view with your changes.
        • Camera Viewpoint (default or you can change).
        • Visibility (Hide/Show) applied on DressUp.
        • Visualization properties changes (for example Visibility, Color, Transparency) applied by you on objects.
        • Transformation (Translation, Rotation) changes applied by you on objects.
      • Apply - Applies the contents of the View to the 3D.
      • Rename - Renames the object. This opens a box with the name. They are names as View.Index, where the index is a number one-greater than the highest current index. All indexes are not updated on a View deletion / resequencing because the software cannot make a call on your intent.
      • Delete - Deletes the object.

    • In the Operations Sequencer, the camera icon with a green background shows that you have a created a view and it is activated.



    • The Item & Resource dialog box appears.



      See Item & Resource Panel.

  3. Click the content in the work area, then click Graphic Properties .


  4. Change the color and the transparency.


  5. Click Text , from the primary Instruction Authoring action bar, then click in the work area.
    See Creating and Editing a Text Marker in a View
  6. Right-click the view thumbnail in the Views panel, select Update, or click Redraw Views for Operation .
    The thumbnail shows the modified view.

  7. In the Compass, click Play.
    The views appear, as you ordered them.

Notes:

An overlay icon, Assigned Instructions on the View indicates that it is associated to one / more Textual Instructions.

You can modify the width and type of line (for example, solid or dashed) by clicking Graphic Properties .

To avoid seeing views when you play the operation sequence, click Deactivate Views of an Operation in the Instruction Authoring section. If you have deactivated the views, reactivate them by clicking Activate Views .

If you make changes to the content of your operation, click Update Views in the Instruction Tools section of the action bar. Then update the views for the operation to reflect the changed content. To see whether you need to update the views, select the Views Update Status BI.

The thumbnails representing each view do not update automatically. To update the thumbnails of the views for an operation, click Redraw Views . You can access this command after activating and updating the views.

To delete all views associated with an operation, click Delete All Views for Operation in the Instruction Authoring section.