The Scene Menu contains the most commonly used algorithms to manage the Product Structure, in order to optimize it:


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Description

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Merge Final Level

Converts all final Assembly nodes of the selection into Parts by merging their children.

A Final Level designates an Assembly node whose children are exclusively Part occurrences.


Merge By Tree Level

Reduces the Product Structure (Tree) depth by merging together all Parts located at the specified Tree Level.

The Tree Level designates the level at which an occurrence is positioned in the Tree (Root node is Level 0)


Merge Parts

Merges all selected Parts together, as one single Part


Merge Parts By Assembly

Merges together into one Part all Parts contained under each Assembly node of the Product Structure


Merge Parts By Material

Merges Parts of the selection that share the same Material Property


Combine Meshes By Visible Materials

Combines (merges) Parts of the selection by visible materials. The visible material is the material displayed on a polygon in the viewer (not necessarily the one set as a Material Property of the Part that owns the polygon: see About Materials).


This function is equivalent to executing successively Explode By Materials then Merge Parts By Materials.


Transfer CAD Materials On Part Occurrences

All materials inherited from a parent node or from the CAD surfaces of a Part are transferred to the Material Property of this Part.

This action is executed for each Part of the hierarchy. This makes the material management easier in PiXYZ STUDIO.


Compress Tree

Compresses a sub-tree of the Product Structure (Tree) by removing empty nodes, or any node containing only one sub-node, and by removing useless instances


Rake Tree

Simplifies the Product Structure (Tree) by transferring all occurrences under the Root node of the scene (flattens all transforms)


Delete Empty Occurrences

Deletes Assembly nodes without children


Apply Transformation

Used to change the transformation matrix of a selection


Create Symmetry

Creates planar symmetry from a selection


Make Instances Unique

Destroys connection of a selected Instance with its other instances, making it unique (also called singularize)


Reset Transform

Sets all transformation matrices of the selection to identity


Rename Long Occurrence Name

Automatically reduces the character length in Assembly and Part name attribute to the specified value



NOTE                Optimizing the Product Structure can be very beneficial to limit the number of draw calls and maximizing performances in the final staging tool (Unity for example), as less transformation matrices are computed.