This section demonstrates how to use the Construction Zone Manager to create zones.
Zones are an important tool. They can be used to filter objects and highlight areas especially useful tool for sectioning a model, filtering objects and displaying areas of intrest.
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The Construction Zone Manager is used to create and manage zones and is opened using the Zoning button located within the 4D Simulation toolbox. When the Construction Zone Manager is opened the 3D Scene will change to an alternate render mode and a top down orthographic view to allow the user to easily see where the zone should be placed. |  | ||||||
Construction zones are created with at drawing tool that allows the user to make free form extrusions to describe the area that the zone encapsulates. Use the Create button to start creating a zone. Next click in the 3D scene to place each corner of the zone. in order to complete drawing the zone you must place at least 3 points. |  | ||||||
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If a zone does not have enough points they are displayed as red lines. | |||||||
A solid green line is always a permanent line and will be added as an edge of the zone. The Pink line desribes the line that will be added to the zone bounds once the user clicks in that location. The dotted green line describes the last line in the shape. If more lines are added the dotted line will change. If the zone is completed the dotted line will become an edge. Use the ESC key to complete drawing lines for the zone. | |||||||
After the Bounds of the zone are drawn the user is able to select the height of the zone separately. Use the blue arrows to adjust the height of the zone. Use the ESC key to complete adjusting the height of the zone. |  | ||||||
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When using zones for filtering it is important to understand how zones function in Fuzor. Zones are designed to contain a snapshot of a model. A zone is associated with the objects that are visible in the model and contained within the zone when it is created, edited or updated. This allows the user to create separate sets of zones for different model sets or sequences. When highlight a zone will highlight the objects it is associated with and not necessarily what is visible in the scene at the time. | |||||||
A user may need to update a zone in order for it to select new objects. The Update Zones button in the 4D toolbox updates all the zones in the project. all zones are updated to associate with objects that are currently visible in the model and contained within the zone . |  | ||||||
Adding Zones to Tasks
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Learn how to assign zones to tasks.
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