Workload Instruction Composer (WKC) PE

 

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Attribute-25 is not available for Work System Components
Work System Components can use the attribute strattr_15. If this attribute has already been used, you can specify an alternate name of the attribute through an environment variable MH_3DVIA_SMGGRAPHIC_WSC.
Hide/Show of Annotations Annotations are not deleted when the View is deleted. When the view is deleted, they are send to the 'No Visibility' mode. When the user does 'Invert Visibility', then the hidden annotations are shown. These annotations also include those for which the View was deleted.
'Load on Demand' & usage of 'Redraw Thumbnails' 'Load on Demand' Feature

To improve the load performance of WKC, a 'Load on Demand' (LOD) feature has been incorporated. With this feature, only the geometry visible in the first View is loaded at the start of the session. The geometry visible in the other Views is loaded as and when needed (i.e., when the user navigates to those Views). This speeds up the user workflow as the user doesn’t have to wait too long to start interacting with the software.

Typical LOD Scenario:
If there are 10 operations under a Process and each operations is assigned with 10 parts then without the LOD feature, the geometry for all the 100 parts will be loaded into the session. This might take some time depending on the size and the complexity of the geometry. But loading of these 100 parts is sometimes not necessary e.g. if a user wants to work only on first 3 operations and their associated 30 parts. This is where the real advantage of LOD comes to play. With this feature, WKC only loads geometry of parts associated to the first operation. And whenever user selects any other operation either through selecting from ‘left hand side panel operation list’ or by double clicking the operation (view) thumbnail in 3DVia viewer; WKC loads the geometry of parts associated to that operation.

Customization:
This behavior can be controlled with an environment variable. By default the LOD is enabled. User can disable it by setting DEL_WIC_DISABLE_LOD = TRUE;

Thumbnails on disk:
For the LOD functionality to work properly, the thumbnails (*.jpg files) corresponding to all views have to be present in the user’s Windows Temp folder (C:/Documents and Setting/<User>/Local Settings/Temp). Thumbnails are normally created in this folder automatically when a view has been updated. Since there will be no thumbnails in the Temp folder the first time a user launches WKC on a given Process; the software will create temporary thumbnails in that location, one for each view. These temporary thumbnails contain the DS logo.
So when user launches WKC on a particular Process for the first time he sees correct thumbnail corresponding to first operation and the temporary (DS logo) thumbnail for the remaining views – since the geometry for those views has not yet been loaded. As mentioned above whenever user selects any other operation which he wants to work with then the parts corresponding to that operation are loaded and thumbnail is updated.
Every time a view is updated, the corresponding thumbnail on the disk is refreshed. So the next time launch of the same Process will show this updated thumbnail instead of a thumbnail with DS logo for that operation. This is helpful for user in saving time in subsequent sessions. If this functionality is not present then every time user will see DS Logo thumbnails for all the operations other than the first operation. Then in that case user is tempted to run “Redraw thumbnail” command to see thumbnails which he/she had already worked with.

'Redraw Thumbnails' Feature

'Redraw thumbnails' navigates through all the views and it is similar to user selecting each view one by one. Thus running 'Redraw Thumbnail' command will also load the geometry for all the parts for all the operations. User is advised to make use of 'Redraw thumbnails' command very judiciously, since he/she is not making optimum use of 'Load on Demand' functionality if is running 'Redraw Thumbnail' command immediately after session launch. User should use 'Redraw thumbnail' only in case if it is absolutely required e.g. when the assigned parts has undergone model changes.