This document outlines the Visual Bookmarks functionalities in the think3 application.
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In the left pane, you the following tabs:
Visual Bookmarks provide a fast and simple way to save and restore the general state of a document by managing its visual appearance, the feature activation status and the presence or absence of Spreadsheet variables.
When you create a Visual Bookmark, you specify which sets of parameters must be captured, among a wide range including the view data, the render mode, the active layers, the work plane position,the clipping plane status, the visualization status of entities , annotations, and components and the presence or absence of features and Spreadsheet variables etc. All these data are stored into the Visual Bookmark and saved along with the document. You can recall an existing Visual Bookmark any time, so all the parameters it contains are restored and you bring the document back to the status at the time the Visual Bookmark was created.
Some typical applications of Visual Bookmarks are:
Just to have an idea on how you can effectively use Visual Bookmarks, when reviewing a design, you can create, export and import Visual Bookmarks that help identify design issues in a model being reviewed, in assemblies you can create several Visual Bookmarks bringing an assembly to different working situations, while in a Sheet Metal part you may wish to view it at different steps of the manufacturing process, that is keeping some specific features inactive or active. You can create also a special category of Visual bookmarks that capture only the exploded view of the assembly components. There is no limitation of the number of exploded views that you can capture depicting different sub-assemblies/working situations etc. You can later use these Visual bookmarks to directly generate 2D exploded views in the drawing environment.
Suppose, for example, you are working with an assembly, within your company, and a colleague of yours is working on the same assembly, but on another sub-assembly. You may wish to view just the components involved in the sub-assembly you are working on and define/keep some working parameters enabling you not to interfere with other parts of the same assembly, such as using light representations for those components that are not being worked on. Similarly, the colleague working on another sub-assembly may wish to define/keep some different parameters linked to the same document (viewing just the sub-assembly with its own components in detail, hiding or viewing not in detail not involved parts, working in wireframe mode rather than rendering mode, keep some features not active and so on) for your same operative reasons. Therefore, every person working on the same object can proceed with different operative working parameters, in order to dramatically streamline his/her job. Similarly, you may wish to transfer a model, with some specific Visual Bookmarks associated to it, to a colleague of yours that has now to handle it, in order to make his/her job easier.
You can use the Reverse command to simplify the model/drawing to work only on a part of it. For example, you might create a Visual Bookmark hiding all entities but the ones you are interested in. Afterwards, when you need to edit such entities, you can apply the Visual Bookmark, modify the model/drawing and use the Reverse command to restore the model/drawing back to the configuration in which all entities are displayed.
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