Displaying and Editing Angular Limitations and Preferred Angles  

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This procedure describes how to display the values of the angular limitations for the DOF (degrees of freedom) that is currently active. It also describes how to set angular limitations as a percentage.

  1. Click Angular Limitations and select a segment. The limits arrows are displayed. These arrows are set by default at the mean values of movement limits. The colored region represents the total range of motion for that DOF.

     

    • The green arrow shows the upper limit.
    • The yellow arrow shows the lower limit.
    • The blue arrow is used to change the position of the active segment.

    Selecting another segment while the command is running opens the angular limitations for the new segment and closes them for the previous one.

  2. When you double-click the limits arrows, the Angular Limitations dialog box appears (see below). It is also possible to access the edition mode through the contextual menu. When you right-click the limits arrows, select Edit…

  3. Using this dialog box, you can activate the angular limits (select Activate manipulation to make the grayed out Lower and upper limit windows active) and modify the values directly with the sliders, the spinners, or by using the left mouse button to manipulate the spinner arrows. It is also possible to edit the Angular Limitations by direct manipulation of the green and yellow arrows in the 3D viewer.

    • Select Reset to return to the default values.
    • Select Close to exit the dialog box.

     

  4. With the mouse in the limits window, right-click to get the contextual window. This allows you to edit, add or change to a different DOF.

  5. Selecting the Edit... allows you set the Preferred angles, as the Preferred angles dialog box appears.


  6. Click Angular Limitations   to close the command and hide the angular limits arrows.