Edit 3D Properties (dialog)

The Edit 3D Properties provides all of the 3D settings relating to the selected object or graphic.

The dialog shows different tabs for point-oriented objects and for length-oriented objects.

Change settings with the spin buttons or in the text boxes with keyboard keys

• By default clicking the arrow buttons incrementally changes the value in 0.1 steps of the selected unit.

  Instead, you can also click in the text box and click the Up arrow or the Down arrow on the keyboard.

  When you specify an angle, the Up arrow or the Down arrow change the value in steps of 1 degree.

• Holding down the Shift key changes the value in 1.0 steps when clicking the buttons.

  When you specify an angle, holding down the Shift key and clicking the Up arrow or the Down arrow changes the value in steps of 10 degrees.

• Holding down the Ctrl key changes the value in 0.01 steps when clicking the buttons.

  When you specify an angle, holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the Up arrow or the Down arrow changes the value in steps of 0.1 degrees.

• You can view or change the Name of the object or of the graphic.

• You can define extrusion settings for objects which are length-oriented in 3D on the Tab Appearance of the Length-oriented Objects.

• You can define the surface qualities of the graphics, which are used for the MUs and for the Worker on the Tab Appearance of the MUs. You might, for example, override the color when you activated vector graphics on the Tab Graphics of the MUs in 2D.

• You can define the configuration of the Store in 3D on the Tab Appearance of the Store.

• You can specify settings for the background color of the Frame or of the folder on the Tab Background.

• You can specify settings for the camera animation of the Frame on the Tab Camera Animation.

  Only the Frame provides this tab.

• You can activate or deactivate captions, which you created, on the Tab Captions. You can show or hide the Names and/or Labels of the objects in 3D by clicking on the View ribbon tab.

• You can activate or deactivate graphic inheritance and the inheritance of the visibility and select settings for visibility of the object towards the outside on the Tab Graphics. In addition, you can click Graphic Structure to show the graphics structure of this object and set if the object is an obstacle for the worker or not.

• You can set graphic sequences, which the Worker uses when he is just walking or walking and carrying a part on a Footpath on the Tab Graphic Sequences. This ensures that the Worker looks as realistic as possible in your simulation model.

• You can select if the graphic of the object is an obstacle for the Worker on the Tab Graphic Settings.

• You can define settings for rotating and translating the animation joints of the animation objects on the tab Joint.

• You can specify point cloud settings for the Frame on the Tab Point Cloud.

• You can define settings for poses of the joints of the animation objects on the tab Poses.

• You can specify settings for the material of graphics on the Tab Material.

• You can specify settings for the animation of the parts on the material flow object on the Tab MU Animation.

  All material flow objects provide this tab.

• You can specify settings for the animation of the robot arm of the Pick-and-Place Robot on the Tab Robot Arm Animation.

  Only the Pick-and-Place Robot provides this tab.

• You can specify settings for the animation of those objects, which you can insert into a Frame, and for the objects on the Tab Self Animation.

  All material flow objects provide this tab.

• You can specify transformation settings for graphics on the Tab Transformation.

• You can click Open 2D Dialog or Open to open the dialog of the selected object in Plant Simulation 2D.

• The Navigate Menu, The View Menu, The Tools Menu, and The Help Menu provide additional commands.

When you are working in the 2D part of your model, you can click Edit 3D Properties on the Home ribbon tab.