Products/Graphical/Planner

This page provides a complete 3D system consisting of a Catalog, a Basket, a Configurator, and an interactive 3D planning window. Using these modules you can create multiple products and troubleshoot attachment points and inter-product rules.

On the left side, there is the Catalog. The data inside this catalog come from commercial data like XcR or SimpleCom.
The corresponding catalog options need to be set up inside the Settings. In this view, one or more catalogs can be shown on the same layer or nested in subfolders. The last layer of each catalog holds the articles that can be chosen. An article can be chosen by clicking one of the lines and is transferred onto the right side to the basket (see section 2).

On top of this table, there is also the option to store selected articles inside a Catalog Setup. This setup can be called to recreate a former selected set of articles.

At the bottom of this table, there are two buttons available. They will export the current 3D View as igxc.json or oc.json.
Keep in mind, this will only export a json file no assets!

The Basket holds the selected articles from the catalog. The basket is divided into two sections. On the top there is the basket itself on the bottom there are the configuration options for each article (see section 3).

Inside the basket, an article can be selected for configuration, update inside the 3D View, highlighting inside the 3D View, or deleting from the 3D View.

To delete an article from the basket, select it, press the right mouse button, and select delete.

If an article from the Basket is selected, it can be configured here. The behavior is the same as inside the Products/Graphical/Configurator. The Update button applies the current configuration to the 3D View. The Auto Update option applies the configuration automatically after each selection. The configuration profiles hold the options to select or create a predefined configuration.
For the configuration profiles take care, they are applied to all products in the basket

Inside the 3D View, all articles from the basket can be shown. The behavior of the 3D View is similar to the Products/Graphical/Configurator.

The differences to the 3D View from the Products/Graphical/Configurator page are:

• show multiple articles updated from the basket
• move a selected article on the floor
• rotate a selected article (Shift+LMB)
• snapp two articles either by attach points or by bounding box

In case of snapping two articles the bounding box is highlighted either in green or in red In case the bounding box is green the snapping rules are taken into account. E.G.:

• snapping two articles at their attachment points
• no snapping in case articles overlap
• using snapping offset in case article positions don't fit 100% for snapping

In case the positioning of an article should ignore the snapping rules, place the article at its final position and hold it with the left mouse button down. After some time at this place the bounding box will turn red, the snapping rules are ignored now. If releasing the mouse button the article stays in place.

The menu on the top of the 3D View holds the same options as in the Products/Graphical/Configurator.

For the article snapping the menu is extended by another property called Handling. In this there are three properties that can be chosen:

• Collisions (Moving): If true, a collision between two articles is detected and marked red. In this case, an article cannot be placed in the same position as another.
• Collisions (Snapping): If true, snapps two articles as long as their bounding boxes do not collide.
• Interactors [Strg]: If true, moving articles inside the 3D View are restricted. If an article part has an interactor, this part is not used for detecting the mouse event for dragging. In case an article uses an animation.json all geometries are turned off for dragging. Only the attachment points can be used.

I: When I want to create/update the 3D object, I get this error in the Converter Console: ERROR: Cannot access product …

S1: Please check if the Scope the Converter is working on, matches the Scope of the Product you want to insert. Sometimes, the user forgets to export the Project DB after connecting to another Project Database in the Login screen. Try to export the Project DB and then call Update again.

S2: You're working in the correct Scope but before you have been in the page Products/Graphical/Configurator where you created an exclusive export of the Project DB, but for another Product. Try to export the Project DB and then call Update again.

I: There is a message in the Log window saying: Cannot open the SimpleCom file! Please export the Commercial Data as SimpleCom file.

S: In case the Planner page runs the SimpleCom configurator (to be chosen in Settings) which needs a SimpleCom file. You can create it in this page but pushing the button SimpleCom. You can also export this file in Assets/Commercial.