Reference Guide for Component Customization > The Component Customization menu bar
Settings menu
This menu allows you to replace a component icon, modify a submodel’s image, remove a submodel's image, and modify a component's full description.
Change component icon
Use Settings > Change component icon... if you want to replace the existing icon which the current active customized object is associated with. You can do the same thing by clicking the Change Icon button:
In either case an Icon Selection dialog box is created.
Figure 84: The Icon Selection dialog box
Expand the tree structure and select the new icon.
Note that you will be presented with subset of icons. These are the ones that are compatible with the active customized object. It is possible that no icons are suitable! In this case you will have to create one. Naturally you must create your new icon before you can attach a customized object to it.
Change submodel image
If, for example, you have a library containing a large number of very similar components, you can associate a different image with each of them to make visual identification simpler.
Click the button to change the image associated with the submodel.
Remove submodel image
Click the to remove the image associated with the submodel.
Full description
See Full description for information on this option.
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