Part Tree Top Menu Bar

Part tree top menu bar

The top menu bar allows quick access top common functions, as well as controlling how the part tree behaves and is displayed.

Opts

There is a range of options for controlling the part tree available via the Opts pop-up menu. These include how items are labelled and ordered as well as whether assemblies, tree lines and icons are drawn.

Type

From the Type pop-up menu it possible to select a variety of different item types to be displayed in the tree in addition to parts. These appear below the parts in the tree, and most of the options (edit, blank etc) are available through the "right-click" menu.

The GROUP option available here can also be used to list the HBM visualisation entities related groups in the Part tree. These groups can be read from a *.vis file from the "Groups >> Read" panel. The detailed information about this is available here.

Blank / Unblank / Only

One use of the part tree is as easy way access to blanking commands. Blank , Unblank and Only (blank all other items) and commands can be applied to the currently selected items.

Sel all / Clear

The Sel all and Clear buttons can be used to select all items and empty the selection respectively.

Select

The Select button invokes an object menu for selecting parts. Selection can also be made via the Quick Pick option "Locate in Tree". Operations such as blank,colour, etc may then be carried out on the selected entities.

Include / Assembly / Set Part Tree

The Include/Assembly/Set Part Tree popup determines what type of hierarchy is displayed.

Include and Assembly have effect only when the requisite information is available to D3PLOT via the ztf file, and in the case of assemblies, via an assembly file written out by PRIMER.

Assemblies are user-defined hierarchical groupings of parts, created in PRIMER.

Set Part Tree information is only read into D3PLOT if it is available in the PTF file. Set Part Tree is a keyword in Ansys LS-DYNA, which can used to set-up a hierarchical groupings of parts and/or other Set Part Trees.

Find

The Find button gives a search option. Text or an ID number is entered in the text field. D3PLOT finds a part whose title contains the text, or a part with an ID matching the number. The arrows determine whether the search direction is up or down from the current selection. Next will find the next matching item. The search will only find matches for currently enabled options (i.e. if id is disabled and items are labelled by name only a search for part 15 will return no matches regardless of its presence in the tree).