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  The object of your inquiry...
  April 4, 2008, 09:58 PM Jay Tedeschi

  Is easier to find than you may think. I know that for many of you this may be your first exposure to AliasStudio. Although it is fairly new to our suite of manufacturing tools, it has been the premier industrial design tool in industry for many years. It gives its users the ability to conceptually sketch, paint, model, render and analyze product designs. One of my goals for this year is to help you get acquainted with it, and de-mystify it as much as possible. So, with that said, let’s jump in the water… maybe not the deep end, but not the shallow one either.

  AliasStudio utilizes layer structure to allow it’s users to store and group data of any type based on the users preferences. Talk to 10 different users and you will probably get 10 different opinions on how best to utilize layers, but suffice it to say, that for any user facing the task of working with a model that he or she has not touched in a while, or data from some other user, the discovery of specific entities may be a bit daunting.

  

  In the image above, I have selected a set of surfaces from my model. Note that I have access to all of the entities which are near or under the cursor, the dialog box allows me to browse, with interactive highlighting, all of the possible selections. Having picked the item of interest I now want to find more information about it. Is it part of a group? What layer is it on? The Object Lister in AliasStudio can be used much like the browser in the Inventor products, and will allow me to discover the information I am interested in.  From the Windows pull down menu I can access the “Object Lister”.

  

  The Object Lister can be set to “Show” or organize data in this window based on layer structure or object association. If I select the up/down arrows to the right of the “Search & Pick” window, the Lister display will scroll automatically to the highlighted model entity selected earliler, expanding the object hierarchy as necessary to do so.

  

  

  Well, that’s it for today’s AliasStudio introductory session. I hope it was helpful. See you next week! By the way, if any of you find this useful, leave me some feedback and let me know… it would be nice to hear from you.

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