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UI customization .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Quick Access
Toolbar Help Center
Ribbon Tabs
Command
Dashboard Locator
Tab
Graphics
Assembly Toolbar
Model Tree
Accessory
Window
Component
Model Tree Graphics
Window
Message Area
Navigator
Open/Close Find Tool
Browser
Open/Close
Main toolbar
Activate command
search
Type command
name to search
• Hover cursor
over a command
to see the path
Command location • Command may
in the UI will be be selected from
highlighted search results
Matching commands
are listed here
Command search
settings
• Regenerate Ctrl G
• Find Ctrl F
• Delete Del
• Copy Ctrl C
• Paste Ctrl V
• Undo Ctrl Z
• Redo Ctrl Y
• Repaint Ctrl R
Surface
Feature
Standard
Simple Hole
Set Mode
Transition Mode
Common dashboard controls
Placement
panel
3D dragger
Blind
Depth
Symmetric
Through all
To next
Through until
To selected
Flip direction
Remove material
Material
Thicken sketch
Pause Tool
No preview
Controls
Un-attached preview
Attached preview
Verify mode
Complete
Cancel
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Orienting the model
• Coarse
Ctrl
Zoom
Assign appearance
Object-action
1. Select Surface/Quilt/Intent Surface/Part
2. Select Appearances button pull-down
3. Select/create desired appearance
Action-object
1. Select Appearance button pull-down
2. Select/create desired appearance
3. Select Surface/Quilt/Intent Surface/Part
1. S
elect Edit Model Appearances from the
Appearance pull-down menu
2. Adjust appearance attributes using draggers
3. Select Map tab to map images and textures
To edit texture placement, select surface using
color-picker
Manage appearances
Chain 1. Construct initial chain To select the outer-most boundary edges of a quilt:
A collection of adjacent edges and curves that 2. Hold CTRL 1. Select a one-sided edge of a quilt
share common endpoints. Chains can be open- 3. Select an edge for new chain 2. Hold down SHIFT
ended or closed-loop, but they are always defined 4. Release CTRL down 3. H ighlight Boundary chain
by two ends. 5. Hold down SHIFT (Query may be required)
6. Complete new chain from selected edge 4. Select Boundary chain
Surface set
5. Release SHIFT
A collection of surface patches from solids or Individual chains
quilts. The patches do not need to be adjacent. Surface loop
One-by-One
Methods of construction To select adjacent edges one at a time To select a loop of edges on a surface path:
along a continuous path: 1. Select an edge
Individual
1. Select an edge 2. Hold down SHIFT
Constructed by selecting individual entities (edges, 2. Hold down SHIFT 3. H ighlight Surface chain
curves, or surface patches) one at a time. This is 3. Select adjacent edges (Query may be required)
also called the One-by-One method.
4. Release SHIFT 4. Select Surface loop
Rule-based 5. Release SHIFT
Rule-based chains
Constructed by first selecting an anchor entity From-To
(edge, curve, or surface patch), and then automat- Tangent
ically selecting its neighbors (a range of additional To select a range of edges from
To select all the edges that are tangent
edges, curves, or surface patches) based on a rule. a surface patch or a quilt:
to an anchor edge:
This is also called the Anchor/Neighbor method.
1. Select an edge 1. Select the From edge
2. Hold down SHIFT 2. Hold down SHIFT
3. H ighlight Tangent chain 3. Q uery to highlight the desired
(Query may be required) From-To chain
4. Select Tangent chain 4. Select From-To chain
5. Release SHIFT 5. Release SHIFT
Individual surface sets Loop surfaces Excluding surface patches from surface sets
To select all the surface patches that are To exclude surface patches during or after
Single surfaces
adjacent to the edges of a surface patch: construction of a surface set:
To select multiple surface patches from
1. Select a surface patch 1. Construct a surface set
solids or quilts one at a time:
2. Hold down SHIFT 2. Hold down CTRL
1. Select a surface patch 3. P lace the pointer over an edge of the 3. Highlight a patch from the surface set
2. Hold down CTRL patch to highlight the Loop Surfaces 4. Select the patch to de-select it
3. S elect additional patches 4. S elect Loop Surfaces (the initial surface 5. Release CTRL
(Query may be required) patch is de-selected)
4. Release CTRL 5. Release SHIFT
Constructing chains & surface sets
Rule-based surface sets using dialog boxes
Seed and boundary surfaces
To select all surface patches, from a Seed To explicitly construct and edit chains &
Solid surfaces
surface patch up to a set of Boundary surface sets, click Details next to a collector:
To select all the surface patches of solid surface patches:
geometry in a model:
1. Select the Seed surface patch
1. Select a surface patch on solid geometry
2. Hold down SHIFT
2. Right-click and select Solid Surfaces
3. S elect one or more surface patches
to be used as boundaries
Quilt surfaces
4. R elease SHIFT (all surfaces from
To select all the surface patches of a quilt: the Seed up to the Boundaries
1. Select a surface feature are selected)
2. Select the corresponding quilt