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• You can assign new controller types.
• Schematic View offers extensive MAXScr ipt
exposure.
• Performance has been substantially improved.
•Abilitytodrilldowntomoreproperties(such
as static values and custom attributes).
How the Components of Schematic View
Behave
Everything displayed in the Schematic View
window is shown as a box with a name. There are
various conventions to indicate different states
regarding these objects.
Solid End—Signifies that the entit y is
arranged.
Open end—Signifies that the entity is free.
Red Border—Signifies that the entity is
animated.
End Ar row—Signifies that the entity
shares a relationship with another entity.
White Fill—Signifies that the entity is
selected in the Schematic View window.
White B order— Signifies that the entity is
selected in the viewpor t.
Up Arrow—Collapses the entity it springs
from and all child entities thereof up into the
parent entity
Down A rro w—Expands the next child
entity down from the entity that the arrow springs
from.
Overlap—Schematic View will prevent
newly visible nodes from overlapping with existing
nodes. This applies to free mode: make an object,
free it, make another object and it will fall on top
buttotherightoftheoriginalobjectsobothcan
be accessed and moved.
Instances—Schematic View will bold the text of
instanced entities, for nodes this will show up on
thebaseobjectentity. Intheexampleillustrated,
Box02 and Box03 are instances.
Procedures
See Using Schematic View (page 3–690)
Interfa ce
SeethefollowingtopicsdescribingtheSchematic
View user interface.
Schematic View Menus (page 3–692)
Schematic View List Views (page 3–694)
Schematic View Preferences Dialog (page 3–695)
Schematic View Toolbars (page 3–699)
Schematic View Display Floater (page 3–701)
See also
New Schematic View (page 3–702)