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Difference between revisions of "Charge a 3D model"

 
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[[Image:stepreload_e2.jpg|none]]Image: Load STEP model<br><br>
 
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Your Windows file browser opens and you can load the previously saved step model and add it to this component housing. Eventually you ned to change its orinetation a bit.
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Your Windows file browser opens and you can load the previously saved step model and add it to this component housing. Eventually you need to flip it around a certain axis or to change its orinetation a bit using the x, y, z, sliders.<br><br>
  
  

Latest revision as of 13:50, 29 January 2021

If a component hasn't got a 3D model, first do a free update of the component database. Perhaps this component meanwhile is equipped with a 3D model. Self created components remain untouched by a component update.

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Image: The component browser: Do a database update (free of charge).

If yes, however, the component will not be automatically exchanged in your layout. You must replace it manually.


If it is still missing, you can add a STEP 3D model which you previously have downloaded from the internet. This works only for a USER component. You must first create a copy of an original TARGET component. TARGET will ask you to do this, the process is automated. Generally, you create a copy of a component by right-clicking on the component name in the component browser. There, select the option: "Create copy of <name> as new component". You do not need to create a copy of the symbol, only of the package.

In the component browser, right-click on the image area of the USER component in question, where you actually would expect the 3D image:

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Image: reload 3D model: Right click on the non-existing 3D model, select "Edit 3D...".

You will be asked if you want to create an extruded polygon of the floor plan. At this point say "No", because you want to attach a nice 3D STEP model which you earlier had downloaded from the web. To do this, press the following button:

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Image: Load STEP model

Your Windows file browser opens and you can load the previously saved step model and add it to this component housing. Eventually you need to flip it around a certain axis or to change its orinetation a bit using the x, y, z, sliders.