CanvasVisual Properties

Gets all connectors.

Field Value

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When true, allows scripting to wait for the OnMoved event. This is false by default to avoid performance degradation for visuals that move frequently. <p> Example scripting: <pre> sender.AllowWaitOnMove = true; Wait( sender.OnMoved ); </pre>

The current angular velocity of the Visual in radians/second.

Determine if any animations are currently in progress for this Visual.

The global application object.

Field Value

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If true, then the visual will always face the camera. This is useful for text that should always face the user, for example. <p> Note that the visual's Rotation property will be set automatically, and so will overwrite any updates made from scripting or from the property grid.

Field Value

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The catalog order code of the component as it appears in the bill of materials, e.g. "'XYZ-203-37.TZ1'". If this is blank there will be no entry in the bill of materials for this component.

Field Value

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The cost of the component as it appears in the bill of materials, e.g. "1595.95".

Field Value

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The description of the component as it appears in the bill of materials, e.g. "Driven Roller Module". If this is blank there will be no entry in the bill of materials for this component.

Get the bounding box of this visual including all its children.

Get the bounding sphere of this visual, including its children.

Field Value

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Shows whether this object casts a shadow or not. Useful for large objects such as warehouses where the walls shouldn't cast shadows on the conveyors.

Return the collection of child Visuals.

The diffuse color of the first mesh material on the mesh object.

The diffuse colors of the all the mesh materials on the mesh object.

Field Value

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A list of visual Types that are allowed to connect to this visual. If empty, then all visuals are allowed to connect, provided they are not specified in the ConnectDisallowed list, and that the connector-specific rules also allow the connection. <p> See also: <ul> <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Visual.ConnectDisallowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Allowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Disallowed </ul>

Field Value

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A list of visual Types that are not allowed to connect to this visual. If a Type appears in both ConnectAllowed and ConnectDisallowed, then ConnectDisallowed takes priority and the connection is not allowed. <p> See also: <ul> <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Visual.ConnectAllowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Allowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Disallowed </ul>

All pairs of connectors from this visual.

Field Value

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A white list of control points that should be shown and editable.

Field Value

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A black list of control points that should be hidden and not editable.

(Inherited from MeshObject.)

The current destination for this visual (usually a load). This can be used by equipment to decide which direction to transfer a load, or it can be ignored. It is specific to the equipment processing the load.

The Visual that the load is current at waiting to be ordered. Any Visual can be a Station but LoadCreatorVisual the first station set when calling LoadCreatorVisual.OrderLoad(). This is normally set for loads.

Information about the current transfer in progress for this visual using the Transfer Protocol. This is normally set for loads.

The collection of CustomProperty objects for this Visual.

Return all visuals below this point in the Visual hierarchy .

Return all visuals below this point in the Visual hierarchy .

A description of the Visual.

The document that this Visual belongs to.

Whether the visual be dragged using the mouse.

Number of triangular faces in the mesh

Number of faces in Mesh for Visual and all its children.

The first child visual of this visual, or null if this visual has no children.

Field Value

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For a load or vehicle this will create a fixed joint between it and its parent unless there is another joint in the way. This should be true for creating composite loads or vehicles or false where there is just a logical connection to the parent, e.g. boxes in a tote.

The full name of this Visual, including the names of all Parent Visual separated by '.' characters.

Determine if this Visual has any children or not.

Determine if this Visual has any siblings or not.

(Inherited from Visual.)

A unique identifier for this Visual.

Field Value

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When right clicking on the object should child objects menu items be included. Default is false.

The InitialLocation of the Visual in meters from the Origin of the Parent Visual.

The InitialLocation and InitialRotation in Matrix form.

Field Value

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The parent that should be assigned upon reset. This is useful for vehicle-type components that should reset their position to a particular track section, for example.

Field Value

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Moves the visual back to its initial location and rotation when Reset is pressed.

The InitialRotation of the Visual in degrees relative to the Rotation of Parent Visual.

The InitialRotation in Matrix form.

The InitialRotation of the Visual in radians relative to the Rotation of Parent Visual.

The InitialLocation of this Visual and all its Parent Visuals in Matrix form.

The InitialLocation and InitialRotation of this Visual and all its Parent Visuals in Matrix form.

Is this visual a floor visual.

Can this visual change its Location/Rotation relative to its parent at runtime. This is used to improve simulation and graphical performance by analyzing what can and can't move during a model run.

There is a mesh and the properties are set to visible.

Whether this visual and all its ancestor visuals are Static.

Whether the visual's body is kinematic.

Field Value

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The layer for this object. If (As Parent) it inherits its layer from its parent, which may in turn inherit the layer from its parent, etc.

The visual's X, Y, and Z coordinates relative to its parent.

The visual's X coordinate relative to its parent.

The visual's Y coordinate relative to its parent.

The visual's Z coordinate relative to its parent.

The current matrix transform of the Visual local to its Parent Visual.

Field Value

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If True, then MoveTo, TurnTo will issue events that indicate when the visual has started accelerating, cruising, decelerating and has stopped. <p> When enabled, the events are issued as OnAnimatorEvent. <p>An example function that will handle these events is: <pre> function Box_OnAnimatorEvent( sender : Visual, args : AnimatorEventArgs ) { switch (args.EventType) { case AnimatorEventType.Accelerate: print("Accelerating"); break; case AnimatorEventType.Cruise: print("Cruising"); break; case AnimatorEventType.Decelerate: print("Decelerating"); break; case AnimatorEventType.Stop: print("Stopped"); break; } } </pre>

The name of the Visual.

The native C# scripting class instance for this visual

Field Value

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The namespace and class name to instantiate for this Visual, e.g. Demo3D.Components.Component (in this case Demo3D.Components.dll will be loaded to try to find the class)

Field Value

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The string used to format the new name of this component if it is copied or added to the project from a catalog. The variable name "ID" will generate a unique number for that type of component in the current project.

The next sibling of this visual, or null if this visual has no siblings.

Field Value

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Occurs after a property of the parent visual is updated.

Field Value

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Occurs after a property of the visual is updated.

Field Value

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Occurs after a property of a visual that has this visual in its PropertyUpdatedSubscribers list is updated.

Field Value

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Occurs when an animator completes.

Field Value

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Occurs when the visual starts to accelerate, cruise, decelerate and stop during a MoveTo or TurnTo command. Note that this event will only be issued if MoveToEventsEnabled is set to True.

Field Value

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Occurs before a property of the parent visual is updated.

Field Value

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Occurs before a property of the visual is updated.

Field Value

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Occurs when a child is parented to this visual after the reparenting has been performed.

Field Value

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Occurs when a child is unparented from this visual after the reparenting has been performed.

Field Value

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Occurs when the visual is clicked on in demonstration/navigation mode.

Field Value

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Occurs when this visual is connected to another visual

Field Value

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Occurs after a custom property of the visual is renamed.

Field Value

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Occurs after a custom property of the visual is updated.

Field Value

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Occurs when this visual is disconnected from another visual

Field Value

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Occurs when a visual has finished being dragged to a new location.

Field Value

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Occurs when a visual is about to be dragged to a new location.

Field Value

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Occurs at the end of each experiment. This allows finalization of any data collection, for example.

Field Value

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Occurs at the before each experiment starts running but after the current experiment row variables have been set. This allows initialization of the model to be done before OnInitialize has been called.

Field Value

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Occurs at the start of each experiment. This allows for initialization of any data collection, for example.

Field Value

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Occurs when Export is called from the Tag Browser. This allows custom information to be written about each tag in addition to the default data.

Field Value

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Occurs when Play is pressed at time 0.

Field Value

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Occurs when a key is pressed or released and this visual is selected.

Field Value

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Occurs when a key is pressed and this visual is selected.

Field Value

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Occurs when the document is loaded.

Field Value

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Occurs when a message is sent from another visual's MessageListeners list.

Field Value

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Occurs when the mouse moves away from the visual.

Field Value

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Occurs when the mouse moves over the visual.

Field Value

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Occurs when the mouse enters the visual.

Field Value

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Occurs when a mouse button is released after being pressed on the visual.

Field Value

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Occurs when a visual has moved or rotated. NOTE: For fast moving objects like loads this can be a performance hit.

Field Value

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Occurs when a MoveTo or TurnTo has finished.

Field Value

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Occurs when a parent or parent's parent, etc. has moved or rotated. NOTE: For fast moving objects like loads this can be a performance hit.

Field Value

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Occurs when the parent for the visual changes.

Field Value

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Occurs before OnInitialize is called. The OnPreInitialize is called for every visual in one pass. Then a second pass calls OnInitialize for every visual.

Field Value

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Occurs whenever the render status of a visual type is changed. This is usually in response to the user pressing one of the "Show X" buttons on the toolbar; for example, "Show Lights", "Show Support Stands", etc.

Field Value

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Occurs when Reset is pressed.

Field Value

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Occurs when the status of the "Show Direction Arrows" configuration is changed.

Field Value

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Occurs when the document is unloaded

Field Value

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Occurs when this visual is added to the model. The scene's "OnVisualAdded" is also called for each visual that is added.

Field Value

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Occurs when this visual is removed from the model. The scene's "OnVisualRemoved" script is also called whenever any visual is removed.

The parent Visual for this Visual.

The default collision margin for physics collision geometry belonging to the visual's PhysicsBody.

Whether the physics for the visual is enabled or not.

Field Value

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Visuals that will be notified when any custom property on this visual is updated. Each visual will be notified via its "OnAfterSubscribedPropertyUpdated" script. <p> See also: <ul> <li>OnAfterSubscribedPropertyUpdated </ul>

The rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to ts Parent Visual.

The rotation of this Visual relative to its Parent in Matrix form.

The rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

The X rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to its Parent Visual.

The X rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Y rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Y rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Z rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Z rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

Field Value

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If this component is clicked on or is included in a selection rectangle then the parent is selected instead and its properties are shown instead. Once this is set the properties can only be changed from the Project Explorer Window.

Field Value

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Enter a non-empty name for each property that should be shown in the Simple Properties view.

Surface area of shape - for certain shapes (e.g. box, sphere, cylinder) this is overridden and it is accurate Otherwise it is the surface area of the triangular faces in the mesh. This requires a "closed" mesh, that the mesh does not have both front and back faces, and any overlap in the mesh will be counted multiple times.

Surface area of Visual and all its children.

Field Value

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List of names that can be used to provide multiple categories of components in a catalog. The catalog can show only components with tag "Pallets", for example.

Field Value

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The format string for the tooltip that appears for an object.

Get the top level visual, the one which has no parent.

The current state of transfers in or out of this visual using the Transfer Protocol. This is normally set for transfer enabled equipment (not loads).

Whether this visual supports the Transfer Protocol. This is normally set for transfer enabled equipment (not loads).

A type string for the Visual.

Field Value

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A string that can be used to store any custom data about the visual. This is passed to the WebGL and VR renderers to be used in remote applications.

Field Value

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A dictionary of user key value pairs that can be used to store any custom data about the visual.

The current linear velocity of the Visual in meters/second.

Number of vertices in the mesh

Number of vertices in Mesh for Visual and all its children.

Field Value

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Indicates if the built-in visual is drawn. If not visible, the component will still operate as normal, allowing it to be grouped with an imported graphic for custom component types.

Field Value

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The object becomes visible when it's center is this distance from the camera or greater. The default is 0. Useful for level of detail control.

Field Value

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The object becomes invisible when it's center is this distance from the camera or greater. The default is Infinity. Useful for level of detail control, such as hiding small objects like bolts when they get far from the camera.

Volume of material in shape - for certain shapes (e.g. box, sphere, cylinder) this is overridden and it is accurate Otherwise it is the volume enclosed by the triangular faces in the mesh. This requires a "closed" mesh, that the mesh does not have both front and back faces, and any overlap in the mesh will be counted multiple times.

Volume of Visual and all its children.

The world axis aligned bounding box of this Visual including the bounding boxes of all the child visuals and their children.

The world axis aligned bounding box of this Visual only (excluding any children).

Get the bounding sphere of this visual, including its children, in world space relative to the Scene.

Get the bounding sphere of this visual, excluding its children, in world space relative to the Scene.

The visual's world X, Y, and Z coordinates relative to the Scene.

The visual's world X coordinate relative to the Scene.

The visual's world Y coordinate relative to the Scene.

The visual's world Z coordinate relative to the Scene.

The Location and Rotation of this Visual in Matrix form.

The world rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The rotation of this Visual relative to the Scene in Matrix form.

The world rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world X rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The world X rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world Y rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The world Y rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world Z rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The world Z rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world X-Axis for the visual

The world Y-Axis for the visual

The world Z-Axis for the visual