Displaying a Tolerancing Capture 

This task shows you how to display a tolerancing capture and preview the capture in 3D.
See Managing Capture Options.
Display a tolerancing capture means show annotations and/or annotations plane according to a specific context.
For this, during the capture edition or when a capture is set current, user can record which elements is show/no show in the capture, see Managing Tolerancing Capture Options.
Furthermore, user can specify a capture point of view by associating a camera, see Creating a Tolerancing Capture.
The point of view defined in a capture in the part/product instance will be recomputed according to the location of the product instance containing the part/product in an assembly.

So, the capture will be displayed in the assembly as it is displayed in the part/product context.

As the capture annotation is considered as an annotation, its 3D representation, and automatically its object in the specification tree, can be displayed in the other captures, but take care this means that only the capture annotation is taken into account, not the capture display.
Though a capture has a specified view support, it manages the Hide/Show status of the annotations of other views also. Hence, if the annotations in the other views are in Show mode during the capture creation, they are also displayed.

Open the Annotations_Part_05.CATPart document.
The geometry looks like this:

The specification tree looks like this:

  1. Right-click the All Texts in the Captures node and select Display Capture command from the contextual menu.

    • All Texts capture is automatically set as current:.
      New created annotations will be associated with this capture.
    • During the capture display, the current type of Render Style, Parallel or Perspective, is used.
    The geometry and specification tree look like this:
    • The geometry is zoomed and rotated.
    • All annotations are hidden except notes.
    • Front View.1 is hidden.

  2. Right-click the Angularity in the Captures node and select Display Capture from the contextual menu.
     

    All Texts capture is automatically unset as current and Angularity capture is automatically set as current.
    The geometry and specification tree look like this:
    • The geometry is moved and rotated.
    • Annotation planes are hidden.
    • Only the datum and the geometrical tolerance are shown.

  3. Right-click the Normal View in the Captures node and select Display Capture form the contextual menu.

    Angularity capture is automatically unset as current and Normal View capture is automatically set as current.
    The geometry looks like this:
    • The geometry is zoomed.
    • Annotation planes are hidden.
    • Annotations are shown.

  4. Right-click the Reverse View in the Captures node and select Display Capture form the contextual menu.

    Normal View capture is automatically unset as current and Reverse View capture is automatically set as current.
    This capture has been created from the Normal View capture and only the part orientation has been modified.
    Normal View and Reverse View displays show you that annotations are automatically mirrored.
    To stop the automatic mirroring of annotations clear the Mirror annotations options in Tools > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotations, Display tab, Capture display area.

    In such case, you can use the command in Visualization toolbar or in Capture Visualization toolbar (in Tolerancing Capture workbench) to manage the mirroring of annotations. For more information on mirroring of annotations refer to Mirroring Annotations.

 

3D Preview of capture

 

When a capture is selected in 3D or in the specification tree, the clipping plane and section profile of the active view in the capture are displayed.

The clipping plane and section profile of the active view inside a capture will be displayed only if the 3D-Annotation-Query Switch On/Switch Off option command is active .

You can see that the section plane is displayed as thick orange line and the clipped surface is seen as the green section.

  • Section profile is displayed as thick line. The section profile will be shown only when the active view of the selected capture is section cut or a section view. For other views only the clipping will be seen, not the profile.

  • The clipped part seen, is similar to  when the Clipping Plane option is activated. The properties for the representation of the clipping plane is again taken from the Display and Hatching, coloring or dotting for clipping plane option set for the clipping plane.

  • The status of Clipping Plane command does not impact the capture selection process. Even if the command is deactivated the clipping profile is seen and the view is clipped on capture selection.

  • If Clipping Plane command is activated, the clipping of the active view is displayed. If a capture is selected whose active view is different from the active view in the CATPart, then the clipping of the CATPart active view is replaced by the clipping of the capture active view. The clipping of the CATPart active view will be restored when there is no capture is selected.

  • If more than one capture are selected, then the last selected capture is taken into account and the profile and clipping plane of its active view is displayed.

  • The Show/No Show status of the capture does not change the behavior. Even if the capture is in No Show mode, the clipping plane and the section profile are still displayed.

The already displayed or reviewed captures are highlighted with a purple background in the specification tree.

  • The purple background of the reviewed captures is non-persistent. That is, it is not kept after the copy-paste, undo, and redo operations, and closing the representation.
  • You can also reset the display history of the views and captures in the specification tree. To do so, right-click the Annotation Set in the specification tree and select Delete History of Displayed Views and Captures. The views and captures in the specification tree then appears in the default transparent background color.