Collectors and Collected Entities

Collectors are named organizational containers for collected entities. Collected entities are nameless entities which must reside within one, and only one, collector. Collected entities are mutually exclusive to a collector.

Collector Entities

An example of a collector is the component collector which collects collected entities such as points, lines, surface, solids, elements, and connectors for model organization purposes.

The current collector is bolded in the Model Browser. Newly created entities are automatically organized within the respective current collector.

Collectors control the display state, on or off, of all their collected entities as a group. The display state of collectors can be controlled in the Model Browser.

With the exception of assemblies and bags, operations performed on a collector affect the collected entities within the collector. For example, if you delete a vector collector, the vectors within the vector collector are also deleted.

Collected Entities

Examples of collected entities include points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors, which are collected by a component collector.

Newly created entities are automatically organized within the respective current collector.