Design Review

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Description

Usage

Dynamic Walls

Creates walls that change colour when a model passes through.

With the cursor hover over and click on the "Dynamic Walls" button, once selected simply click on where you want to begin the wall and move to the position you want the wall to end and left click once again.

Note: When drawing a wall, it can only be drawn on an axis.

A blue wall should now be drawn with the length of the wall shown in the centre

Full wall

Allows the user to cycle the Dynamic Walls through 3 different modes, Full Visibility, Ghosted and Lines.

With at least one Dynamic Wall drawn, using the mouse cursor hover over the "Full Wall" button. To then begin cycling through simply use the left mouse button to cycle by clicking on the button repeatedly.

The modes cycle through as such: 1. Full Visibility, 2. Ghosted, 3. Lines.

The walls will start out on "Full Visibility" and begin cycling from there, for example if you draw a wall then select the "Full Wall" button, the wall will then move to "Ghosted".

Table Top View

Shrink a design review from full scale down to small scale to review whole review easily

select the icon using the pointer to select

When enabled the whole design review will shrink down to a fraction of its size around the review origin. In small scale mode all manipulation tools can still be used to alter a design review.

Selecting the icon again with the left mouse button will disable table-top view and the design review will return to full scale.

Hide / Show

Hide and Show components in the design review

select the icon using the pointer to enable hide / show controls. Once enabled you will be able to:

•Hover over a part and press the "Q" key to hide it.

•Press the "E" key to bring back the last hidden part

•Press the "Q" key to bring back all hidden parts

Select the icon again using the left mouse button to disable the hide / show controls.

Save Review

Saves the current open review

Select the icon using the pointer. Your save will be confirmed, click the red cross to close this panel.

Save As New

Saves the current review as a new unique review name

Select the icon using the pointer. Your new design review name will be displayed. Click the red cross to close this panel.