The Items Manager lists all items within a project and provides several functions that can keep your project organized and help you make selections.
Accessing the Items Manager
From the sidebars, select Items to show or hide the Items Manager.
You can also adjust the Items Manager sidebar to view longer names or deeper folder hierarchies easily.
Items Manager icons and structure
Every sketch, body, plane, axis, image, and 2D Drawing you create in your project is defined as an item and is listed in the Items Manager. You can quickly identify the different types of items in the Items Manager panel by the icons displayed next to the item name.
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Construction plane or axis |
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Mesh |
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| Image | ||
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Items Manager Functions
In the Items Manager, you can:
Make selections
The Items Manager is another option to make selections in your design. You can define a selection set in the Items Manager panel and launch tools from the adaptive menu. To make selections easier, you can filter items in the Items Manager by selecting All Items at the top and choosing an item type.
If you're using a keyboard and mouse/trackpad, hold the CTRL or Command key to select more than one item, or press the Shift key to select a range. For more information on making selections in Shapr3D, visit Selecting geometry.
Adjust image opacity
You can adjust the opacity of an image from the Items Manager by clicking or tapping the percentage value beside the image to open the Opacity slider. Use this slider to adjust the transparency of the image.
Create and use folders
You can create folders in the Items Manager to organize your projects and group together selection sets. To create a folder, select
at the bottom of the Items Manager.
Once a folder is created, you can add items to the folder using drag and drop.
Rename an item
You can rename an item from the Items Manager by tapping and holding an item with a pen or secondary clicking (right-clicking) with a pointer to an item, then selecting Rename.
Hide/show items
Each item in the Items Manager includes a Visibility icon that can be toggled to identify and control the visibility of project elements. Select
to hide an item or
to show an item.
You can select the Visibility icons of folders to change the visibility of all items within a folder.
Zoom to an item
You can zoom to an item from the Items Manager by tapping and holding an item with a pen or secondary clicking (right-clicking) with a pointer to an item, then selecting Zoom to (iPadOS or macOS) or Zoom to Selection (Windows).
Delete an item
You can rename an item from the Items Manager by tapping and holding an item with a pen or secondary clicking (right-clicking) with a pointer to an item, then selecting Delete.