Function Overview for 3D Models (SAP Library

Function Overview for 3D Models

The systems automatically starts the integrated viewer when you display an original application file in the supported processing situations either inplace or outplace. The scope of functions for both calls is identical.

You can call functions as follows:

The viewer function bar (toolbar) contains all the functions that are active in the current processing situation.
The selection is dependent on personal settings (options).

You can find a selection of functions in the context menu.
Press the right mouse button to call up the context menu in the screen area of the viewer.

Formats for 3D Models

The following overview shows the 3D models that you can display with the integrated viewer from Engineering Animation, Inc (EAI):

Extension	Description
.JT .WRL *.STL	Direct Model Virtual Reality Modeling Language Stereolithography

Functions for 3D Models

The following overview shows all the tab pages that are active when displaying 3D files. In the column Use some of the functions are described.

Tab Page	Functions	Use
Viewer	Full-view Print	When an object cannot be completely viewed in the screen section of the viewer, you can use this function Full-view to display it again. This function is useful after you have made changes to the display of the 3D model with the following functions: Move, Center, Zoom.
Navigation	Rotate x axis y axis z axis Move Center Zoom Zoom area	You can rotate the 3D model about any axis freely in order to look at the model from any angle. You can then create or fix comments as markups using redlining functions.
Tools	Redlining Measurement Compare models Sectioning
Options	Performance Background Save format Toolbar	You can improve performance dramatically by switching on Frame view, turning off Interior view or setting the Number of frames per second. The changed display of the 3D model can be saved in the following formats: Bitmap (24 bit color, 8 bit gray scale) JPEG (24 bit color) TIF
Layer	Original application file Layer name	When you start the viewer only the original application file is displayed – no layer is active. The tab page Layer is not active if no layers exist yet for the original application file. Only after you create a comment as a markup using redlining functions and then saved them in one or more layers does the entry Layer appear, and the layer names are listed. You load the saved information by clicking on the selected layer. The currently loaded layer is indicated by a check mark. You can process this layer and save the changes. Clicking again deactivates the layer. If you have loaded more than one layer, and then added further comments, the comments are saved in the active layer. The system determines the active layer based on the sequence of the layer loaded. The layer at the bottom of the list is active.