A context menu of actions is available for any selected item
in the browser.
To open the context menu, right-click on either an entity
folder, an individual entity, or the white-space of the browser.
Review
In Review mode you can review selected entities irrespective of their display state,
masked, active state (Entity State Browser), but not outside of the
spherical clipping, if enabled.
Review mode is currently supported in the following browsers: Model, Solver, Part,
Mechanism, and Entity State.
Review is currently supported for: Assemblies, Beamsection collectors, Beamsection,
Blocks, Bodies, Boxes, Components, Configuration, Constrained extra nodes,
Constrained rigid bodies, Constraints, Contact surfaces, Control volumes, Cross
sections, Design variables, Design variable links, Design Objective Reference,
Design Variable Property Relationship, Elements, Groups, Joints, Laminates, Load
collectors, Loads, Loadsteps, Materials, Mechanisms, Objectives, Optimization
constraints, Optimization responses, Output blocks, Part, Part Assembly, Part Set,
Plies, Properties, Regions, Seatbelts, Sensors, Sets, System collectors, Systems,
Vector collectors, and Vectors.
Invoke Review Mode
Select valid entities to review.
Note: You are only able to review one type of entity at a time.
Select entities in the browser.
From the action mode tools in the browser, select an entity type and
enable the Selector (). In the graphics area, select entities.
Invoke review mode.
Right-click on selected entities in the browser
and select Review from the context menu.
Press Q (only when a supported browser is active or the graphics area is
active).
Note: When the graphics area is active and you have two browsers which support Review mode open simultaneously in
the left and right tab areas, pressing Q will invoke
Review mode for the entities selected in the last browser you accessed. If the Entity State Browser is one of the two browsers opened, then pressing Q
will invoke Review mode for the entities selected in the other browser.
Tip:
Append entities to your selection by left-clicking. Remove entities from
your selection by right-clicking.
Switch your review selection from one entity to another or from one entity
type to another by selecting a new entity. You can also switch your review
selection from one browser to another when you have
two browsers, which support Review mode, open
simultaneously in the left and right tab areas. The graphics area will
automatically display your new selection.
In the browser, use the up and down keys to
review.
Figure 1.
Disable Review Mode
Manually exit review mode by right-clicking on a selected entity in the
browser and selecting Review
from the context menu, or press
Q.
When other interaction modes may conflict, Review mode will be automatically
turned off.
Warning:
Review is reset when:
Switching the Visualization Color mode to any mode except by
Thickness or by Element Quality
Changing Visualization FE and Geom styles
Switching browsers or browser views
Undocking browsers from the tab area
Clicking anywhere in a browser that does not support
Review
Enabling an action mode tool
Changing data
Review is reset and disabled (when Review is on) or disabled (when
Review is off) when:
Any panel or pull-down menu referring to a panel is opened
and remains open
Switching the Visualization Color mode to by Thickness or by
Element Quality
The Spherical Clipping panel is opened
Color of Reviewed Entities in the Graphics Area
Entities being reviewed will appear with their current visualization style in the
graphics area, while all other non-reviewed entities will display transparent. Figure 2. Two Components Selected in Review Mode
Entities being reviewed that do not have a visualization style assigned will display
yellow. Figure 3. Sets Selected in Review Mode
When a single group entity is being reviewed, the contact pair’s main surface will
display blue and the secondary surface will display red. When there is only one
surface definition being reviewed, it will display red. Figure 4. Single Contact Pair Selected in Review Mode
When multiple group entities are being reviewed, they will display in their own
entity color. Figure 5. Multiple Contact Pairs Selected in Review Mode
). In the graphics area, select entities.
