Attached Options

Attached options

There are a few options available to the user to increase the flexibility of the attached panel.

On entering the panel the current blanking status of the model is saved and can be restored with the RESTORE SAVED button. The blanking status can be saved at any point by pressing the SAVE CURRENT button. This can be useful if too many entities are revealed, making it possible to repeat the process with some attached categories switched off (see Restricting the extent of "attached to" propagation ).

RECURSIVE will iteratively keep finding attached items until no more can be found or MAX LOOPS is reached. (The STOP button can also be pressed if it is taking too long).

Setting Selection to SINGLE ELEMS on means each time Apply is pressed only the entities immediately attached will be made visible. Setting Selection to ATTACHED PART on will make the parts attached visible.

Setting Rigid body to WHOLE PART on or SINGLE ELEMS on is analagous to setting Selection to ATTACHED PART on and SINGLE ELEMS on respectively but only applies to rigid parts. This option is only available if a ZTF file has been read in. If WHOLE PART is on then non-contiguous rigid parts will be found.

Instead of finding attached to all visible nodes, the user can select the nodes to find attached to. This is done by selecting SELECTED for the method instead of VISIBLE .