About the TruPlan Browser

The TruPlan browser is similar to the Inventor Model browser on the left side of the Inventor window.

To access the browser, Click + beside the Model tab in the Inventor browser, then select TruPlan from the drop-down list.

TruPlan Browser Structure

The browser shows the components of your TruPlan project:

• Root (top) node (in this example, "TOOL TEST PANEL 3-4")
• Materials
• Rosettes
• Manufacturing configurations
• Geometry folders
• Layups (in this example, "Plate" and "Overcore")

You can expand items in the browser, and you can create folders to organize your work. You can reorder folders or other objects in the browser, as well as copy and paste. To make a geometry folder the default location where new geometry gets placed, right-click it and select Default Folder.

About Selecting Items

Availability of buttons on the TruPlan ribbon depends on what you have selected in the browser. For example, the Ply button is not available unless you first select a layup in which to create a ply. Use the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple items as you would in most Windows applications.

About Visibility of Items

Use visibility to show or hide items to make your work easier. For example, if you only want to see certain surfaces or geometry in the canvas, right-click those items in the browser and make sure that Visibility is selected. Right-click the items you do not want to see and deselect Visibility.

The visibility setting of a parent node overrides the visibility settings of its children. So if you deselect visibility for a parent node, all its children are hidden no matter what their visibility settings are. If you enable visibility for a parent node, only its children with visibility enabled are shown.

Icons in the TruPlan Browser

Each type of item in the TruPlan browser is represented by a corresponding icon.

	Root
	Material
	Packaging
	Rosette
	Geometry
	Projection
	Layup
	Sequence
	Ply
	Subdivision (for sub-plies)
	Sub-ply
	Curve (sketch)
	Point
	(Indicates an item needs update)
	(Indicates a referenced surface)
	Strategy
	Fiber Path
	Mesh
	Analyses
	Compaction Analysis
	Angle Analysis
	Gap Analysis
	Tow Length Analysis
	Wrinkle Analysis
	Steering Analysis
	Tape Cut Analysis
	Flat Pattern Folder
	Flat Contour
	Flat Point