Activating a Terminal Node With a Progress Bar

This task shows you how to visualize the activation of shapes (using the Activate Terminal Node Command) with a progress bar that gives the number of activated shapes out of the total deactivated shapes.
For more information about the progress bar, please refer to Opening an existing Document with a Progress Bar.
Open the AnalyzingAssembly01.CATProduct document.
  • Select the root product AnalyzingAssembly01 and the command Edit > Representation > Deactivate Terminal Node. All the shapes are deactivated.
  • Or you can deactivate shape representation in the Tools > Options > Infrastructure > Product Structure > Product Visualization tab, by checking the box entitled Do not activate default shapes on open. Then, open the AnalyzingAssembly01.CATProduct. All the shapes are deactivated:
For more information about this functionality, please refer to Deactivate Terminal Node.

Select the root product AnalyzingAssembly01 and the command Edit > Representation > Activate Terminal Node. The shapes are progressively downloaded.

And you can see the progression of the downloading of shapes associated to a terminal node:

This operation is activated by default (there is no setting).

When this dialog box disappears, the whole geometry (assembly) and the Specification Tree are displayed.