Steps and Procedures Right-Click Menu

Use

The Steps and Procedures panel menu contains a number of commands used to control the steps and procedures, including viewing, arranging, activating, and renaming steps, and updating the step thumbnails. In addition, you can create and edit procedures containing specific steps.

Available options differ, depending on the current position of the cursor.

Features

Procedures

The following right-click options are available for procedures.

Menu Option	Functional Description
Play	Plays the selected step in the selected viewport
Reset	Resets the step to the first frame of the animation defined in the sequence list for the step
Reset to End	Resets the step to the last frame of the animation defined in the sequence list for the step
Update Thumbnail	Update the thumbnail for the step or procedure.
Select Assignment Layers	Opens the Assignment Layer - Selection window, and allows you to find assignment irregularities (multiply assigned or over consumed).
New Procedure	Creates a new procedure
Rename Procedure	Rename the selected procedure
Delete Procedure	Deletes the selected procedure
Duplicate	Makes a duplicate of the selected step or procedure
Duplicate and Reverse	Makes a duplicate of the selected procedure, in reverse order
Reverse	Reverse the step order of the selected procedure.
Render to Raster or Video	Opens the Render To window, and allows you to render the selected procedure to a raster image file or an AVI file.
Create Step	Opens the Step Properties window, and creates a new step with the current render and viewport settings.
Renumerate Step	The Renumerate Steps command goes through each step in a procedure starting from the beginning, removes all tail numbers, and adds new numbers starting from 1. Note Some steps may not require a number. For example, “Safety Step” or “Preparation Step”. If you’ve renamed a step and removed the number, its name not changed. The unnumbered steps display at the end of the procedure.
Procedure Properties	Opens the Procedure Properties window, and allows you to modify the selected procedure properties.

Steps

The following right-click options are available for steps:

Menu Option	Functional Description
Play	Plays the selected step in the selected viewport
Reset	Resets the step to the first frame of the animation defined in the sequence list for the step
Reset to End	Resets the step to the last frame of the animation defined in the sequence list for the step
Delete	Deletes the selected step
Update Step	Updates the selected step with the current render and viewport settings
Update	Performs various update functions: Update Render Mode: Update the render mode of the selected step, ignoring the camera view and scene visibility, to current render mode state. Selection Visibility: Updates the selected step visibility options. For example, grid Camera: Update the camera of the selected steps to the current camera view. This option enables you to easily adjust the initial view in a selected step or make consistent camera view in all steps.
Add to	Adds the selected step to a procedure Note This option is available only when there are multiple procedures.
Move to	Moves the selected step to another procedure Note This option is available only when there are multiple procedures.
Copy Link to Clipboard	Creates a link to the clipboard
Remove from Procedure	Removes the selected step from the procedure
Render to Raster or Video	Opens the Render To window, and allows you to render the selected step or steps and animation sequences to a raster image file or an AVI file.
Render to Vector	Opens the Vector Illustration window, and allows you to render the selected step or steps and animation sequences to a vector image file.
Highlight Sequences	Opens the Animation Sequence Highlight Properties window, and allows you to automatically highlight all objects that are animated within attached animation sequences per step.
Highlight Selection	Opens the Selection Highlight Properties window, and allows you to set colors and animation to the currently selected parts in the step.
Remove Highlight	If one is selected, remove the selected highlight. If no highlights are selected, all highlights are removed from the step.
Reverse Step	Reverses the animation in the step
Add Assignment	Opens the Assignment Properties window, and allows you to add an assignment to the selected object, for the selected step.
Remove Assignment	If one is selected, remove the selected assignment. If no assignments are selected, all assignments are removed from the step.
Properties	Opens the Step Properties window, and allows you to modify the selected step properties.
Combine Steps	Combines multiple steps into a single step Note This option is available only when multiple steps are selected.