Project Tree

Project Tree

The top left box of the software Interface is the managment panel of the current project that contains all the acquired and modified data.

The project tree of a structured project is different from the one of a free project.

Structured Project

This image shows an example of a Project Tree during a structed project.

Data Status and Selection

Every entry in the project can be in 3 different status marked by different color boxes:

• No Data (Gray Box): This element is needed for the project to be complete but no data is available. You need to import or scan this element
• Acquired (Blue Box): There is an acquisition of this element. You can align this data with the rest of the project, edit it or convert it into mesh format
• Meshed (Green Box): There is a mesh of this element. You can edit this data and export it.

It is possible to interact with the Project Tree:

1. Left Click on an element to select it
2. Left Click keeping CTRL pressed on an element to add it to the current selection
3. Right click on an element to open the Element Context Menu
4. Left Click outside the list to clear the current selection

All the selected items will be visible in the 3D View and the software will activate the buttons for all the available actions of the menues, the Main Toolbar and the Support Toolbars according to the current selection.

The information is layed out as a tree, every element can have child elements. This represents the information dependency in the project. For example a single stump is part of a jaw so it's a child of the jaw and the software, when asked to align the stump to the rest of the project, will align it to its parent jaw.

Context Menu

By right clicking on a Project Tree element a context menu will appear

The context menu has:

• A Sub Menu with the tools for the selected element (Mesh, Acquisition)
• A Restore Acquisition button that will remove a mesh and recover the previous acquisition
• A Change Color button that will change the assigned color of this element, used in the 3D View
• A Change Strategy button that will change the scan and mesh strategy of this element
• A Import... button that will import an acquisition or mesh from the disk in the supported formats
• A Export... button that will export the acquisition or mesh to the disk in a supported format
• A Export Visible button that will merge and export all the current selected meshes in one single file

Drag And Drop

You can drag one element and drop it over a different one

The available actions will be:

• Clone to create a copy of this element
• Move To ... to clone the element and remove the original one

Free Project

This is a screenshot of a Free Project Tree

In a free project mode the software have no idea of the dependencies between the data. So there's no tree, no childrens. Only a list of objects.

The objects can be of 2 types. Acqusitions (blue icon) or Meshes (green icon).

For the most part this project works the same from the Structured Project.

The differences are:

• To create a copy of a data you need to open the context menu and select the Clone action.
• If you drag one element above another you can move the dragged element in two ways:
  • The Direct Align Action to align the two elements autmatically
  • The Manual Align Action to align the two elements manually

Now you can return to the Main Page or continue to the Main Toolbar