Preview of Components in Component list

ania1sun · 28 Feb 2015, 17:56

%(#4040FF)[Hi there
Could you please advise how to get nice preview in Component catalogue.

I enclose printscreen of nice gas hob Component as it is in the project and the preview of the same gas hob upside down in Components catalogue .]

gilles · 28 Feb 2015, 18:05

Blue axis of the component must be upside down.

TIG · 28 Feb 2015, 18:19

Place an instance.
Select it.
Use the Context-Menu to 'Change Axes'.
Set the red/green axes so the blue axis is in the right direction.
Now place another instance.
It should be the right way round.
Do a save_as on the component...
Overwrite the external SKP that is currently wrongly oriented, with this fixed one.

ania1sun · 2 Mar 2015, 11:22

@tig said:

Place an instance.
Select it.
Use the Context-Menu to 'Change Axes'.
Set the red/green axes so the blue axis is in the right direction.
Now place another instance.
It should be the right way round.
Do a save_as on the component...
Overwrite the external SKP that is currently wrongly oriented, with this fixed one.

The blue axis is up so correct. I attache the skp. Component. Still cannot figure it out

TIG · 2 Mar 2015, 11:53

Works alright for me from the outset.
Here's my version [v8] which previews properly AND inserts correctly...
It is not the best set up SKP.

HOB GAS FOSTER 5 BURNERS szer.870.skp

Dave R · 2 Mar 2015, 12:00

With it placed correctly, explode the parent component and make a new component of it.

That needs a lot of other help, though. There are quite a number of reversed faces that should be corrected and the component's file size could be quite a bit smaller if it was built correctly.

ania1sun · 2 Mar 2015, 17:31

@tig said:

Works alright for me from the outset.
Here's my version [v8] which previews properly AND inserts correctly...
It is not the best set up SKP.

%(#0040FF)[Thanx Tiger
Could you advice any tutorial that shows how to set up similarly complicated Component in a proper way ?]

ania1sun · 7 Apr 2015, 12:55

Ht there, I still cannot figure out the way how to have nice new created Component preview in Components folder.
I attache present preview of Component and printscreen how I would like the preview to look like.

gilles · 7 Apr 2015, 15:24

Set the view like you want then create the comp.

Or explode, purge unused, set the view like you want then create the comp.