View a video
that will show you the different window layout options for the Assembly Pane
and Properties Pane.The Properties Pane allows you to manipulate data of items selected in the view windows.
View a video
that will show you the different window layout options for the Assembly Pane
and Properties Pane.
View a video
that will show just a few of the things you can do with the Properties Pane
such as identifying surfaces and changing the properties of surfaces, control
points and markers.
Also see :
The Properties Pane can be shown by selecting Properties from the View menu, or pressing the F3 function key on your keyboard.
The Properties Pane works very similar to the Assembly Pane in the way that it can be floating, docked or set to auto hide. The Assembly Pane and the Properties Pane can also be docked together into one pane (one above the other or side by side) or as tabbed panes behind each other.
Regular docking and floating options for
Properties Pane;
same as for the Assembly Pane.
When you drag the Properties Pane on top of the docked Assembly Pane, you will see the following:
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Properties Pane docking position: 1: Above Assembly Pane 2: To the right of Assembly Pane 3: Below Assembly Pane 4: To the left of Assembly Pane 5: To the left of Assembly Pane as a separate pane 6: Underneath the Assembly Pane into a tabbed pane.
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Properties Pane docking in the same area as the Assembly Pane has different options.
The Properties Pane can be closed by clicking on the cross in the top right of the Pane.
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Closing when docked |
Closing when floating |
The Properties Pane can be used to view and modify the properties of the following objects:
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Object |
Selection method |
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Surfaces |
Assembly Pane and rendered Perspective view One single surfaces can be selected at any time |
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Control Points |
Multiple control points selection from any view window |
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Markers |
Multiple control points selection from any view window |
Single object selected
The image below shows a single control point selected in Perspective view. The Properties Pane can be divided up into two areas that show the following:
1. The object selected. In this case the row 1, column 4 control point on the Bullwark_Trim surface.
2. The properties of the object selected.
a. Some fields are greyed out which means they are read-only and cannot be edited. For example, in case of a control point object, these are the Surface that the control point belongs to and the row and column numbers.
b. The fields that can be edited are the position and the weight of the control point. For example, you can move the control point fwd to 55 m by simply selecting the Long Pos. value field and typing 55. The position of the control point will be updated in the view windows as soon as you hit enter or click outside of the Long Pos. value field.
The Properties of the selected control point are listed in the Properties Pane on the left.
Multiple Control Points Selected
The image below shows multiple control points selected. The Properties Pane now allows you to modify the properties of the entire selection, or select one particular object to be modified individually using the drop down in area 1.
When
multiple control points have been selected, you can modify the properties of
the selection or switch to individual control points using the drop down.
Only values that are the same for all selected objects are shown in area 2 in the Properties Pane. For example: all selected control points in this image share a control point weight 1.
You can modify the properties of a group of control points in a selection by typing in the value fields. For example, if you would like all control points to move to a Long Pos. of 60 m, you can simply type 60 in the Long Pos. field and all control points will move as soon as you hit enter or click outside the field.
Selecting, viewing and modifying the properties of surfaces and markers works in much the same way.
Note
You can not select more than one surface simultaneously.
Also see: Assembly Pane.
