Publish

Uploading models

Reviewing models

Publishing models  

Maintaining models
 

Once you have uploaded models using the File Upload tool and reviewed them in the Uploaded files area, you can publish them, making them visible to the entire global user community on 3D ContentCentral. Also, you can use Models on your website to make these models visible on your company's website.

You can choose to publish or unpublish any model or group of models on 3D ContentCentral at any time, showing them to the community or keeping them hidden until they are complete and ready for display.

The model files and all other files contained within your Supplier Services account remain your property. 3D ContentCentral is a secure online location that maintains your sensitive intellectual property.


Publish Models

Publishing a model makes it available for the 3D ContentCentral community to view and download. Published models are also available for Models on your website.

To publish models:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
  2. Click Publish.
When the models are published, the Publish Status changes to Published.

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Unpublish Models

Unpublishing a model removes it from the user-visible portion of 3D ContentCentral and Models on your website locations.

To unpublish models:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
  2. Click Unpublish.
When the models are unpublished, the Publish Status changes to Unpublished.

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Protect Intellectual Property

You can use the Include/Exclude Features checkbox in the Uploaded files page to protect intellectual property in two ways.

Defeature is a new capability in SolidWorks 2011 that enables removal of details and components that may represent intellectual property. If Defeature is defined for a model in SolidWorks 2011, setting Features to Excluded enables the Defeature properties prior to download. If Defeature properties are not defined in a model, setting Features to Excluded will still help protect intellectual property by saving the model as an external surface model prior to download.

To enable predefined Defeature schemes or make models featureless:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
  2. Click Include/Exclude Features.
Excluded appears in the Features column when you specify the download as featureless.
Note: Selecting a model that is featureless (Excluded in the Features column) and clicking Include/Exclude Features again reverts the model to featured (Included in the Features column).

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Delete Models

Deleting a model removes it and all of its data from the grid, as well as 3D ContentCentral. You must upload the model again in order to publish it or to access its data from the Uploaded files area.

To delete models:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
  2. Click Delete.
When the models are deleted, they are removed from the model grid.

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Apply/Remove Categories

You can apply or remove categories from one or more models using a predefined list of categories.

To apply categories to models:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
  2. Click Apply Categories.
  3. Select the categories you want to use for the models from the Apply/Remove Categories window.
  4. Click Apply to apply the categories to the selected models.
  5. To remove categories, clear (deselect) the categories and click Apply.
Applied categories appear in the Categories column of the selected models in the model grid. Removed categories are removed from the Categories column of the selected models in the model grid.

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Apply Tags

You can add tags to models using the model grid.

To add tags to models:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
  2. Click Apply Tags.
  3. Type the tags for the models separated by commas.
  4. Click Apply to apply the tags to the selected models.
Tags appear in the Tags column of the selected models in the model grid.

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Get Report

Use Get Report to export an Excel spreadsheet containing all of the model data for the selected models.

To generate the Excel spreadsheet:

  1. Select the models from the model grid by checking their selection boxes.
    Note: Selecting no models generates the report for all models.
  2. Click Get Report.
  3. In the File Download window, click Open to display the Excel spreadsheet, or click Save to save the Excel spreadsheet to a specified location. The filename is provided; you provide the location where you want to save the file.

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Upload Models

To upload files to 3D ContentCentral, click UPLOAD NEW FILES.

Note: For more information on the File Upload tool, see its help.

Uploading files is a two-step process. First you add the files to the Upload Queue in the File Upload tool, and then you upload the files.

You can add files to the Upload Queue by dragging and dropping them from your Windows directory to the Drag & drop your files here to upload area, or using the Import From Excel utility.


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Using Drag and Drop

To add files to the upload queue by dragging and dropping:

  1. Select the files and drag them to the Drag & drop your files here to upload area in the File Upload tool.
  2. When you drop the files on the File Upload tool, the program checks each file and determines if it is a new upload or a replacement. For each upload, a row is added to the Upload Queue containing:
    1. Upload Status
    2. File Name
    3. Part Number
    4. File Version
    File Version displays NEW Upload if the file is new and Revision if it is already in 3D ContentCentral Uploaded files area.
  3. When you select a single row by clicking its selection box, the File Details appear. You can enter or modify all of the data for the model. Use the arrows at the bottom of the File Details pane to view the information for other files in the Upload Queue.
    Tip: You can upload the files without modifying the File Details in the File Upload tool. You can modify the file details directly in the 3D ContentCentral Uploaded files area.
  4. Select the files you want to upload in the Upload Queue pane and click .
    Note: When the upload completes, 3D ContentCentral runs the models through some basic checks. Models that pass these checks are placed in the 3D ContentCentral Uploaded files area with an Unpublished status. Models that fail these checks are rejected and are placed in the Rejected Models section of the 3D ContentCentral Uploaded files area.
  5. In the Confirmation window, click Close.
    Note: This process uploads the models; it does not publish them.

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Using Import Files

To upload files using the Import From Excel utility:

  1. Using the Excel template, complete the information for the models you want to upload and save the file.
  2. Click Import From Excel.
  3. In the Open window, browse to the Excel file that contains your data and click Open. Each model from the spreadsheet appears in the Upload Queue pane. You can enter or modify the data for any model using the File Details pane.
  4. Select the files you want to upload in the Upload Queue pane and click .
    Note: When the upload completes, 3D ContentCentral runs the models through some basic checks. Models that pass these checks are placed in the 3D ContentCentral Uploaded files area with an Unpublished status. Models that fail these checks are rejected and are placed in the Rejected Models section of the 3D ContentCentral Uploaded files area.
  5. In the Confirmation window, click Close.
    Note: This process uploads the models; it does not publish them.

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