Add a User Object

To add a user object, you should do the following steps:

Start

To start to add a user object, you need first click the button (the left part of the above illustration) to bring out the page (the right part of the above illustration) for guiding you to add the user object, as illustrated below. As you see, the placemark, global view and basic information should be respectively defined to add the user object.

You need to click the button to define the placemark and click the button to define the global view for the adding user object.

Select placemark

NUCLEUS provides a library of built-in 2D icon or 3D model placemarks for you to choose, and you can do it by:

click 2D to choose a 2D icon, or 3D to choose a 3D model to present this user object;
navigate around the 3D view to find the place to plant your user object;
double-click to fix the placemark at the place, and you will find the coordinates will be automatically filled;
adjust the X, Y, Z values if you wish. To raise the user object, increase the Y value.
click on the button to save.

In addition to the built-in placemarks, you are allowed to use your customized placemarks as well. Specifically,

Uploading. You can upload the local files of COLLADA format into the placemark library, complementing your placemark library;
External files. You can provide the URL to an external COLLADA file to use it as the user object's placemark.

For the user object, which is now placed in the 3D view, you can relocate as well as edit its orientation and scale:

Reposition. If you want to change the user object's place in the 3D view, click the "Edit" button for "Position", then you can find a new place for the user object and click to confirm;
Edit the orientation (only applicable for 3D models).
1. click the "Edit" button for "Orientation";
2. click and drag in the 3D view to set focus to it;
3. roll the mouse wheel to rotate;
4. click the 3D view when done.
Edit the scale (only applicable for 3D models):
1. click the "Edit" button for "Scale";
2. click and drag in the 3D view to set focus to it;
3. roll the mouse wheel to scale;
4. click the 3D view when done.

Define global view

To define the global view for a user object, you can take the following steps:

click on the button in the Global View field (it will change to after the clicking);
adjust the 3D view, using the navigation and visualization means;
click on the button to save the global view for the user object.

If the user object has already defined its global view, the above steps will override the original global view, and this overriding cannot roll back.

Edit basic information

In the basic information section, the following information is required:

Name. This is compulsory, and you can type in a name that is of your preference.
Group. You can select a group (if it is existing) for the user object or type in a new group name for it. If you do not leave this field blank, the system will group the adding user object as "Unknown", as an example shows here.
Block. the user can choose which block the user object belongs to;
Description. You can add an annotation to the user object, and the annotation words can be searched when you use the search service.

If you have input the necessary particulars to define the user object, you can click the "Save" to finish the adding. Otherwise, you can click the "Reset" to clear off your input, or click the "Cancel" to terminate the process of adding the user object without any saving.

If your NUCLEUS license does not have the entitlement to add an additional user object, you will encounter a failure when you save. Thus, we suggest you checking the license before starting to plant in a user object.