• Visual Compare

Visual Compare

This project helps the user identify the differences between two views: open one view as the Active Content; then bring up the second view as a Reference; then compare the two.

Reference can be any viewpoint, view or drawing, as detailed in the description of the Virtual Trace project.

Once the Active Content and its Reference are chosen, you can use the Visual Compare options and functions. These are accessible from Trace and Reference Palette (open this palette via a menu command.)

Set Color of Active Content and Reference

The user can set separate color attributes for the Reference and the Active Content: a custom color for each, or else retain the original colors.

For each color (Reference and Active Content), the user can adjust the slider to make its display very transparent (far left) or very intensely colored (far right) or anywhere in between.

Color of Reference is set to red :

Display Order of Active Content vs. Reference

You can switch the on-screen display order of the Active Content and the Reference: click the “switch” icon in the Trace and Reference palette.

Splitter

This function lets you split the screen into two, with the Active Content on one side and the Reference on the other. The two views are divided by a Splitter bar.

To activate the Splitter function, click the Splitter icon from the Trace and Reference Palette. Four “splitter handles” appear, one on each edge of the screen. Choose any one of them and move it in a perpendicular direction, to create either a horizontal or vertical splitter bar. As you drag it, the content on either side of the splitter changes dynamically. Once you let go of the mouse button, the splitter bar returns to its original position.

A drawing section is compared with it’s own model section with the splitter:

Temporarily displace Reference

Clicking the Temporarily displace Reference button changes the cursor to the familiar “hand” shape, allowing the user to move the Reference to a new position (i.e. to move it “out of the way”). Once you let go of the mouse button, the Reference jumps back to its original position.

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