Context Menu

Access additional Model Browser options from the right-click context menu.

The context menu items appear only when applicable.
Entity Available for Description
Analyze Laminate, Material, Ply, Zone Perform traditional composite stress toolbox calculations.
Assign Property Opens a dialog from which you can assign the selected template property to elements.
Card Edit Laminate, Material, Ply, Property, Shape, System Collector, Table You can edit any single item's card. You can edit multiple items provided that they use identical card images. This option displays the card image of the chosen entity for the current solver template; if a template is not loaded or if the entity does not have any card images associated with the loaded template, an error message displays in the status bar.
Collapse All Folders, Laminate Closes the selected folder(s) and its children folders (if any), so that only the selected folder displays.
Collapse All White space Closes all of the folders in the tree structure, so that only the top-most level of items displays.
Create White space and entity folders Creates entity of selected type and opens it in Entity Editor.
Delete All Deletes the selected entities. If the entity to be deleted contains children, these will not be deleted.
Drape Laminate, Ply Access to Kinematic Drape, Laminate Tools, and Drape Estimator methods. For more information, see Tools.
Duplicate Laminate, Material, Ply, Property, Shape, System Collector Duplicates the selected entity and opens it in Entity Editor. For a ply, the option of duplicating multiple times is provided.
Empty Laminate, Ply, Shape Preview and delete empty collectors.
Expand All folders, Laminate Opens the selected folders and children in the tree structure, exposing every item nested in the selected folder.
Expand All White space Opens all of the folders in the entire tree structure, exposing every item nested at every level.
Export White space, Laminate (Ply and Sub config only) Export Laminate data. File types include:
  • CSV – formatted table of plies within laminate
  • Catia Stack Up
  • Fibersim
Hide Laminate, Material, Ply, Property, Shape, System Collector

Turns off the entity in the graphics area. This selection affects each item’s local display control: it will make the icon become ghosted indicating the display state is off. This can also be used on an entity folder. In such cases, this hides all the items within that folder.
Import White space, Laminate (Ply and Sub config only) Import Laminate data. File types include:
  • CSV – formatted table of plies within a laminate
  • Catia Parts – This will open the Import Browser with necessary settings to import Catia composite data
  • Catia Stack Up
  • Fibersim – This will open the Import Browser with necessary settings to import Fibersim composite data.
Insert Ply (contained in Laminate only) Creates a new ply and inserts it above the selected ply in a laminate.
Interfaces Laminate (Interface config only) Opens the Interfaces Dialog, which is used to define Interfaces in an Interface Laminate. Interfaces specify the order Sublaminates contact each other. For more information, see Interface Laminates.
Instantiate Ply (contained in Laminate only)

Generates the input number of instance plies. Instance plies are exact replications of the master ply. Any changes made to the master ply will propagate to all instances. If an instance is edited directly, the link to the master ply will be broken.
Isolate Laminate, Material, Ply, Property, Shape, System Collector Isolates the selected entity in the graphics area and hides all other entities.
Orient White space Orient is used to access tools to manipulate element orientations:
  • Element Normal – accesses the Orientation Review tool to manipulate element orientations. See Visualization.
  • Material – accesses the Aerospace Material Orientation tool. See Aerospace Composite Tools.
  • Ply Normal – accesses the Orientation Review tool to manipulate ply normals. See Visualization.
Realize Ply Coverts a ply shape defined using geometry to a shape defined by an element set. See Shapes Defined by Geometry.
References All Any single item or multiple items can be selected. Opens the References Browser and displays the relationship of the selected entities to other entities in the model in a hierarchical tree structure.
Remove Ply Removes the selected ply(s) from their parent laminate and into the Unstacked Ply folder.
Rename All

Any item can be renamed in the name text field. The new name must be unique. All instances of the renamed item update automatically. You can cancel the rename operation by pressing Esc. The high-level entity folders are non-editable, but you can rename folders containing the assembly hierarchy.
Reverse Orientation Laminate, Ply Multiples the orientation of selected ply(s) or plies within the selected laminate by -1.
Reverse Sequence Laminate Reverses the stacking sequence of plies contained in a laminate.
Review Laminate, Material, Ply, Property, Shape, System Collector Invokes Review mode, which displays selected entities irrespective of their display state, masked, active state (Entity State Browser).
Show Laminate, Material, Ply, Property, Shape, System Collector Displays the item(s) in the graphics area. The item's icon changes to bold indicating that the display state is on. Show can also be used at the folder level of an entity.
Show All White space Shows all entities contained in the Composite Browser.
Smooth   Accesses the Aerospace Ply Geometry Smoothing tool. For more information, see Aerospace Composite Tools.
Unused Laminate, Material, Ply (Unstacked), Shape Preview and delete entities which are unreferenced in the database.