Items Manager

The Items Manager icon-items-all.png 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 icons-top-win-sidebar.png to show or hide the Items Manager. 

You can also adjust the Items Manager sidebar to view longer names or deeper folder hierarchies easily.

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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.

  Body icons-items-bodies.png
  Sketch plane icons-items-sketches.png
 

Construction plane or axis

icons-items-planes-axes.png
 

Mesh

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  Image icons-items-images.png
  Folder icons-items-folder.png

 

Items Manager Functions

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.

Tip

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

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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.

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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 Icon-IMAddFolder.png at the bottom of the Items Manager.

Once a folder is created, you can add items to the folder using drag and drop.

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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.

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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 Icon-IMShown.png to hide an item or Icon-IMHidden.png to show an item.

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Tip

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).

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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.

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