Select (multiple) objects by clicking on the
checkbox next to them or on their name in the navigation bar (tree bar)
at the top of the screen. To see common attributes for multiple objects, you can either hold
down the Ctrl key while selecting or click on
predefined groups or plant parts. This feature allows the simultaneous
display of (custom) common attributes for up to 1000 objects. Example: This menu is separated in four basic sections: The default colours section offers a basic set of predefined colours
that can be applied to the currently selected objects. Custom colours are defined by the user using the colour picker
function described earlier. Once defined, they can be used for colouring
just like the default colours. The slider at the bottom adjusts opacity, with the leftmost position
being fully transparent and the rightmost position indicating that the
selected objects are fully opaque. Custom color files can be created using Excel by inputting a color
and a corresponding condition. You can use color names or HTML color
codes starting with “#” followed by six digits representing the
intensity of red, green, and blue, along with two optional digits for
opacity. For condition, you can enter attributes like task,
piping, name, system path, or any other relevant attribute.
Example:
Objects
Select Objects
Common
Attribute Display during Multi-Selection
Select Clipping Mode
“Select clipping mode”
To improve object
visibility, clip the view to exclude areas around selected objects.
After
deselecting the clipping mode it may take a few moments until the entire
model is loaded again.
Please wait until the progress bar in the
status bar stops changing.
Select from three clipping modes and customize them with
individual options:Volume Clipping
“Volume clipping”
Select an object and surround it
with a rectangular clipping box that perfectly matches its size. This
ensures that only fully enveloped objects will be visible.
“Customise clipping”
To modify the clipping box’s
dimensions, slide the slider between 0 and 25 meters or drag a side of
the box directly. For repositioning the box, simply drag the colored
arrows.
“Centre and fit selected objects”
This option
autofits the viewing perspective, if the volume of the clipped body is
changed.
“Save volume to clipboard”
Save the volume of your
current clipping to your clipboard to include it into an excel file.
You can
expand the box to be bigger than 25 m and reduce it to be smaller than
the original size (to get a cross section).
If you drag a side to a
size smaller than 0 m, you will also move the opposite side of the
box.IntelliClipping
In “IntelliClipping”, the original clipping box
conforms to the shape of the object itself, which is surrounded by the
default selection box.
Inverse Clipping
“Inverse clipping” gives a free view to the centre of
the selected objects by clearing a quadrant along the x, y and z axis.
All other quadrants will be displayed as usual.
“Show/hide grid planes”
You can add a grid that
reacts to the camera’s distance to the object.
The grid will have a
size of 1 m x 1 m / 10 m x 10 m or 100 m x 100 m depending on the
camera’s distance from the object.
To change the size of the grid,
drag the sides of the quadrant .
Similar to
inverse clipping, in walk mode with an additional object or person,
there’s always a clear corridor between the object and the camera.
“Save volume to clipping board”
Save the volume of
your current clipping to your clipboard to include it into an excel
file.
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min X
min Z
max Y
max X
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2375.12
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3037.21
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Centre and Fit
“Centre and fit selected objects”
Select the
objects you want to centre and fit to your window and click on this
button.
Without a selection, all elements will be fitted into the
window.
Toggle Visibility
“Toggle selcted objects visibility”
To make objects
vanish or reappear, simply select them and click on this button.
Show Only
“Show only selected objects”
This function vanishes
every object except the selected ones. Toggle it to activate or
deactivate it.
Highlighting Objects
“Highlight selected objects”
All objects except the
selected ones will appear greyed out and semi-transparent.
You can
toggle the button to deactivate this function.
Object Colours
Colourise Selected Objects
“Colourise selected objects”
Change the display
colour of selected objects by opening the colour menu.
Colour Options
“Advanced colour selection” opens a pop-up menu for
detailed colour selection, enabling you to pick from the full RGB
spectrum of colours:
Once the colour is set up as required, confirm
[
] or
cancel
[
] your
selection.
The selected object(s) will instantly be displayed in the
chosen colour.
“Pick colours” lets you grab a colour from a 3D object
and save it in “custom colours”. Later, you can choose it from the
palette.
Just activate the function, click an object to pick its
color, and select a white custom color square to save it.
“Clear style” resets the colour of the selected objects
to their default colour, which was initially assigned during the
building process.
“Reset all colours” reverts all
assigned colours for all objects to their default
colour as initially assigned in the building process.
Default Colours
Custom Colours
Opacity Setting
Creating a Colour File
Your model is loaded with a default color file.
But you can also
create a “Custom color file” and load it via the file
management menu.
Aspect is an optional value used to color
insulation and/or simple physical for piping.
Color
Condition
red
Task=Equipment
blue
Task=Structure
#FF00FF22
Task=Supports
red
Task=Cableway
red
Task=Conduit
red
Task=HVAC
#FF00FF
piping
Measure Distances
“Measure distances” creates markers that are placable
on outlines and corners of 3D objects. The markers can be moved by
dragging them.
“Create new distance measurement” creates two connected
markers and shows the distance between them, as well as distances in the
XYZ planes.
“Create new minimum distance measurement” creates two
connected markers and shows the minimum distance between two selected
objects.
“Create new coordinate measurement” generates a single
measurement marker attached to its coordinate information.
“Prevent East-Axis/North-Axis/Up-Axis movement”
“Ignore intelligent targetting” is explained in more
detail with example images below.
This button “Estimates the diameter” of cylindrical
objects, e.g. pipes. This feature is especially useful for laser scans,
it also displays a red diameter to provide visual assistance.
Intelligent Targetting
Activated intelligent targetting
Deactivated intelligent targetting
For optimal
measuring in AdapterForSmartReview built models, use
the following settings:
Tolerance “100” Enable “Advanced Graphics
Handling for measuring and line tracking”.
When
activating “Object Recognition” in AdapterForDocuments
built models, additional measuring points like centers of pipes will
appear.
