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Entities of Interest

Entities of Interest

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The Entities of Interest tool allows you to visualise specific groups of entities quickly in D3PLOT and action them. Actions include:

  • Only
  • Zoom In
  • GLB Export
  • Mixed-Mode Plot
  • Highlight
  • Colour By

Setup in PRIMER

In PRIMER, open Entities of Interest from the Workflows menu (Tools → Workflows → Entities of Interest). In the menu that appears, you can a dd groups of entities to a list, and save it to a Workflows .json file or add the data to your model in PRIMER and then write the keyword file.


Adding Entries to the List

For each group of entities, make sure that you complete the following steps:

  1. Name
    You must give your entry a name so it can be identitfied
  2. Type
    Select the entity type for your entry. Current options are Parts, Parts by Set, Parts by Include or Parts by Group
  3. Select...
    Select the entities for your entry by using the menu that appears on the right-hand side.
  4. Add
    Once you have completed the above steps, Add your entry to the list.

Only and Unblank all

You can select as many entries from the list as you want and then click Only to show only the selected entries. You can click Unblank all at any time to unblank the entire model.

Edit

You can only have one entry selected to Edit an entry. Much like adding an entry to the list, you then update its name and/or the entities in the entry. You can not change entity type.

Delete

Select one or more entries from the list and click Delete to delete them.

Saving

You can either save your list of Entities of Interest to a .json file or directly to the model. The user data from the file will then be picked up when the Workflow is selected in D3PLOT.

Use in D3PLOT

When you open Entities of Interest in D3PLOT, your list of entries will be displayed, along with action buttons:


Reset

You can Reset the selected models to default.

Only

Select one or more entries and Only them.

Zoom In

Select one or more entries and Zoom In on them.

GLB Export

Select one or more entries and GLB Export them for use in D3PLOT Viewer. This will open the GLB Export Options window, which has the following options:

  • Directory
    Provide a valid directory location for saving GLB files
  • Output
    Select the output type – either Current Frame or Animation
  • Frame Rate
    If Animation is chosen for output, select the default Frame Rate
  • Export
    Once the above options are all valid, click Export to export one GLB file for each of the selected entries. The exported GLB filenames will correspond to the entry names.

Mixed-Mode Plot

Select one or more entries and perform a Mixed-mode plot on them.
The selected entities will be plotted by a method of the users choice. The default is CT however you can select from the following options using the dropdown menu:
Continous tone solid contour (CT), colour contours with lightning model (SI), line contour plot (LC), cloud points plot (CL), Iso-surface contour plot (ISO), velocity arrows plot (VEL) and interface stresses and forces (INT).
Any entities that are not selected will turn transparent and grey. The transparency can be set by the user using the transparency textbox, the default is 75%.

Highlight

Select one or more entries and Highlight them.
The highlighted entities will turn opaque and a colour of your choice from the dropdown menu, the default is red.
The non-highlighted entities will turn grey and transparent of which the value can be set the user using the transparency textbox, the default is 75%.

Transparency

The Transparency textbox is used to control the transparency value used in Mixed-Mode Plotting and Highlighting. The default is 75%.

Colour

Select one or more entries and Colour them.
The selected entities will become opaque and turn a colour of your choice from the dropdown menu, the default is red.

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