Markup Manager

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Markup Manager

Toggle Visibility

Markup Manager Settings

Link Markup to Snapshot

Use Cases

How to Store Documentation Data?

How to Introduce Employees to Material Flow?

How to Add Points of Interest?

Toggle Visibility

Make sure Markup Manager is ON, then click on the circle symbol to activate the visibility of the specific Markup.

Markup Manager Settings

In settings you can find options to set opacity levels:

Enable makrup opacity: if opacity is disabled markup is always visible
Opacity threshold (min): if the camera is closer to the minimum value, the markups are more visible
Opacity threshold (max): if the camera is further up to the maximum value, the markups are more hidden
Opacity fading rate: the value represents the opacity relative to the camera zoom

If camera is between min & max, then markup has transparency that is a proportional to the distance, the closer to the markup the more it's visible.

Insert Markup

After selecting Insert markup, a record will be created with the given timestamp name.

Click on viewport to select markup position.

Click on markup and position the connector with an offset. Pick color from pallete if needed.

Properties

Select a Markup record, the dialog allows you to change properties:

Name: When naming your Markup, give it a name that will make it easy to find.
Popup title: Set title for the popup.
Popup content: Set content for the popup.
Anchor point: Set the coordinates of the attachment point.
Offset: The amount of distance by which Anchor point is out of position.
Connector: Show Connector on viewport.
Color: Set any color from palette.
Actions: Delete Markup.

Types of Markups

The type of Markups allows you to decide what icon will be visible in the viewport and visually describe the key areas, you can pick from:

Bell,
Electricity,
Fire,
Maintenance,
Note,
Text,
Ventilation,
Image.

Custom Properties

With custom properties you can create fields and assign data for specific Markup.

You can choose from a variety of properties:

Text: Short text field.
Boolean: Toggle switch.
Date: Date field.
Rich Text: Long text field.
File: Upload any extension file.
Thumbnail: In 2D picture.
IoT: Connect IoT devices.

With many different fields you can build Markup documentation.

Dynamic Properties

With custom properties you can create dynamic values for specific Markup.

Create a text property for desired asset.

For more information see Custom Properties

Insert Markup

Click on Markup and copy paste this formula into the markup's Text:

custom text {property("Asset Identifier", "Property Name")}

Click on Asset, find Asset Identifier and copy to your clipboard.

Click on Markup and paste to your formula. Your formula should be like below:

custom text {property("1f438e9ad96fb3a43d43cea3", "Property Name")}

Click on Asset once again, find Property Name, copy to your clipboard.

Now click on Markup and paste Property Name to your formula. Your formula should be like below:

custom text {property("1f438e9ad96fb3a43d43cea3", "Expiration Date")}

You can change 'custom text' in your formula as you want, in this example 'Expires' is added as text string.

From now formula is:

Expires {property("1f438e9ad96fb3a43d43cea3", "Expiration Date")}

And text markup will show the value from property:

Expires 14.10.22

Link Markup to Snapshot

For more information see Link Snapshot to Markup

Use Cases

How to Store Documentation Data?

Storing documentation data can be useful for understanding and tracking production processes. It allows for data exchange and synchronization between project users.

From now on, click on any entities to access the data.

How to Introduce Employees to Material Flow?

This will be your foundation tool for your lean material delivery system and it’s in one place adding flexibility for designing the right Material Flows.