How is my design space organized?

You can declutter your design space with the Items manager in Shapr3D to get a better overview on what’s in your work. Open the Items manager by selecting  in the title bar or going to View > Show Items, and select items in the panel to immediately select the related shapes in your design.

Every body, group of sketches, plane, axis, and image you create in your project is defined as an item, searchable in this panel. Any 2D drawings you've created are also stored here, in the Drawings tab. If you create new 3D bodies with one of the Boolean tools (Subtract, Intersect, Union), those new items are named after the original bodies’ names.

Notice that each item type is indicated by these icons:

• Body
  
• Sketch
  
  Note: Sketches are automatically organized by the planes they are drawn on. So each sketch item can include multiple sketches from the same plane. You can combine multiple sketch items into one folder.
  
• Plane and axis
  
  
• Image
  
  

In the Drawings tab, all 2D drawings you create are stored. 

How do I use the Items manager? 

Organize the geometries and declutter your project with the Items manager: 

• Select  to open or hide the panel.  
  
  
• Select   to hide the selected items, select  to make them visible again. 
  
  
• Select  to group items together into a folder.
   
  If you duplicate a folder, the new folder retains the original folder structure. 
• Move other items into existing folders or move items from one folder to another via drag and drop.
  
  
• Make your image more transparent by adjusting its opacity with the transparency scale. 
  

Regardless of the item type, you can right-click each item or folder and use these functions:

• Zoom to
  Select Zoom to to zoom into the item(s).
  
  
• Rename Item/Folder
  Select Rename Item or Rename Folder to rename the associated item or folder.
  
  
• New Drawing...
  If you select a body-type item, you can create a 2D drawing of that body. 
  
• Delete
  Select Delete to delete the associated item or folder. 
  
  

You can right-click a drawing and use these functions:

• Rename Drawing
  Select Rename Drawing to edit the drawing's name. The default name is inherited from the body's name. 
  
  
• Delete Drawing
  Select Delete Drawing to delete the associated drawing.
  
  
• Drawing Preferences...
  Select Drawing Preferences... to edit the custom settings for the 2D drawing. 
  
  
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  Select this icon to select a body and create its 2D drawing.