Flex Web Application

Use

You can publish files to the Flex Web Application (.html) format.

When publishing to the Flex Web Application format, you can:

  • Select a base template to apply to the published scene

  • Control other properties relating to the saved .rh file and additional information that may be used by the template

The export properties continue for each template.

If you want a template that you have created to be discovered by SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author and displayed in the template list, you must copy your template into the Plugins\FLX_Publishing folder. This is a sub folder of the folder where SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author is installed. Alternatively, the path to a template can be specified in the Export Properties of Flex Web Application window.

Features

This format contains export options. You can use them to customize the way in which your file is published.

Export Interface

Field

Functional Description

Templates

Used to view and select the template on which to base the new HTML document

  • Preview: Displays a preview of the selected template

  • Name: The names of the available templates

  • Description: The description of the selected template

  • Use External Template: Selects the external template on which to base the HTML document

    • File Name: The file name and path of the template

    • Browse: Browses for and selects the template

  • Start Browsing Program after Publishing: Opens the program and displays the HTML after the file is exported to the .html format

RH File Options

Establishes the way in which .rh files are exported

  • Compression: Indicates whether file compression is used when exporting files. This reduces the file size while maintaining the quality. Compression helps to reduce the amount of storage and transmission bandwidth required for 3D models.

  • RH Compression: Establishes the compression settings, if compression is to be used

    • Compression Mode: Determines the type of the compression with which to export the file. The faster the compression, the faster the file is saved but the larger the resulting file.

      • Very Fast: Compresses the file using a low level of compression. This creates the largest file. However, the compression speed is very fast

      • Fast: Compresses the file using a medium level of compression

      • Normal: Compresses the file using a high level of compression

      • Best: Compresses the file using the maximum level of compression. This creates a very small file. However, the compression speed is very slow.

    • Dictionary Size: Determines the size of the dictionary size to use for compression. The larger the size of the dictionary, the better the compression.

  • Export Animation: Saves the keyframe animation in the file

  • Vertices Quality: Establishes the percentage of the data about the vertices to keep. Lossy compression is used here. Once you have compressed the vertices data, this information is lost. That is, you cannot reverse this compression.

    • Percentage: Selects the percentage of data to keep

  • UV vertices quality: Establishes the percentage of the data about the UV points to keep. Lossy compression is used here. Once you have compressed the UV point data, this information is lost. That is, you cannot reverse this compression.

    • Off: Does not compress the UV points

    • Percentage: Selects the percentage of data to keep

  • Normals quality: Establishes the percentage of the data about the normals to keep. Lossy compression is used here. Once you have compressed the normals data, this information is lost. That is, you cannot reverse this compression

    • Off: Does not compress the normals

    • Percentage: Selects the percentage of data to keep

  • File protection: Establishes the type of protection that the exported file has. This is helpful if you want to distribute a proprietary model to people who need to see the file, but should not edit or copy it. For example, if a company’s Web site features an online parts catalog which displays their parts, and the company does not want their competitors obtaining usable copies of these parts. Note that the file name, path, and protection status is displayed in the application title bar.

    • No: File protection is disabled

    • Conversion Protected: Prevents the file being saved to any format other than this format

    • Read Only: The file can be viewed, but not saved

  • Disable Measurements: Protects the measurements in the exported file. Once this option is enabled, the file cannot be measured by using the SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author measurement tools.

  • Export viewports: Saves the current viewport layout in the file

  • Thumbnail: Creates the specified size thumbnail image of the current model. The thumbnail image displays any setting that has been applied to the model. The thumbnail is displayed in Windows Explorer (with Thumbnail view turned on). Alternatively, you can select to not create a thumbnail image.

    • No thumbnail: Does not create a thumbnail

    • [size]: Creates a thumbnail of the specified width and height, in pixels

  • Password Encrypted: Sets password-controlled encryption for the file

  • Save watermark: Saves a watermark with the file. Note that if this field is set to YES, and Watermark file is empty, a default watermark is stored in the file.

  • Watermark file: Selects the watermark image to be saved with the file

Additionals

Additional settings relating to all models and images

  • Author: The name to display in the Web page

  • Title: The title to display in the Web page

  • Description: The description to display in the Web page