Adding Hyperlinks

Adding Hyperlinks

An item can have multiple hyperlinks attached to it, although only the default hyperlink (the one at the top of the list) can be displayed in the navigation window at one time. The default is the link that will be followed when clicked.

Adding hyperlinks to an item

1. Either

   • Select a single item (see for more details on how to do this) on which you want to attach a hyperlink and go to Review, Hyperlinks, Add Hyperlink

   or

   • Right click on the item on which you want to attach a hyperlink and choose Hyperlinks, Add Hyperlink from the context menu.

   The Add Hyperlink resizeable dialog is displayed

   

2. Type in the name of the hyperlink into the Name text box.

3. Type in, or browse to, the actual hyperlink value in the Link to file or URL . This is what will be linked to when the hyperlink is clicked on.

4. Choose the category that the hyperlink will belong to from the Category drop down. You can add more categories than the default Hyperlink and Tag categories by simply typing in the name of your category into this box. See for more information on categories.

5. If you want the hyperlink to be attached to a specific point on the item, instead of the default center of the item's bouding box, then click on Add . A cross-hair cursor will appear in the main navigation window, allowing you to select a point on the item where the hyperlink will be attached to. See for more information on attachment points.

6. Click on Clear if you want to delete all attachment points associated with this hyperlink and revert to the hyperlink being attached to the center of the item's bouding box.

7. Click OK to add this hyperlink to the item or Cancel to return to JetStream without attaching anything.

Hyperlinks Categories

Hyperlinks can be categorized so that you can group them to distinctly display or not display in the main navigation window at one time. The seven default categories are:

• Hyperlink

• Tag

• Viewpoints

• Clash Detective

• TimeLiner

• Selection sets

• Redline tags

  Note

  The Clash Detective and TimeLiner categories are only available if you have a valid license for these plugins.

Tags are just hyperlinks that are displayed by name rather than by icon in the navigation window. The last three of these categories are defined by JetStream and so you cannot assign a hyperlink to one of these categories, other than by setting up a viewpoint, a selection set, or a Clash Detective result.

Use the Hyperlinks Options to select which categories are displayed when hyperlinks are turned on.

To add a new category, simply type in the name of the category into the Category box on the Add Hyperlink dialog when you are adding or editing a hyperlink.

Deleting Hyperlinks

Deleting Hyperlinks

You can delete all hyperlinks from an item by right clicking on any tab in the Properties control bar and choosing Delete Hyperlinks from the context menu.

You can reset all the hyperlinks on an item to those that were originally converted from the CAD file, by going to Edit, Reset Item, Hyperlinks with an item selected. Likewise, you can reset all the hyperlinks on all items in the scene to their original state by going to Edit, Reset All, Hyperlinks

Deleting a single hyperlink from an item

1. Either

   • Select a single item (see for more details on how to do this) from which you want to delete a hyperlink and go to Review, Hyperlinks, Edit Hyperlinks

   or

   • Right click on the item from which you want to delete a hyperlink and choose Hyperlinks, Edit Hyperlinks from the context menu.

   The Edit Hyperlinks dialog is displayed.

   

2. Select the hyperlink under the Name column.

3. Click on Delete

4. Click OK to confirm deletion or Cancel to return to JetStream without the hyperlink deleted.

Displaying Hyperlinks

Displaying Hyperlinks

To turn on hyperlinks

• Click Hyperlinks on the Workspace toolbar.

or

• Go to Tools, Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are drawn as icons in the main navigation window and tags as text. Clicking on a hyperlink in the main navigation window will follow the link and right clicking on it will open a context menu offering you the options of Follow Hyperlink Edit Hyperlink (see ) or Select item containing hyperlink , which will select the item onto which the hyperlink is attached.

Attachment Points

Hyperlinks and tags are by default attached to the center of their owner's bounding box, but you can override this with more convenient attachment points. When adding or editing a hyperlink, you have the option of adding attachment points, as described in . If you add more than one attachment point, the hyperlink will be displayed attached to the closest attachment point to the camera during navigation. This allows you to set up hyperlinks so that they are always available for following when drawn in 3D mode during navigation, rather than disappearing behind objects. Leader lines will be drawn from the attachment point to the hyperlink. The size of these lines can be defined in Hyperlinks Options

Editing Hyperlinks

Editing Hyperlinks

Editing a hyperlink

1. Either

   • Select a single item (see for more details on how to do this) from which you want to edit a hyperlink and go to Review, Hyperlinks, Edit Hyperlinks

   or

   • Right click on the item from which you want to edit a hyperlink and choose Hyperlinks, Edit Hyperlinks from the context menu.

   The Edit Hyperlinks dialog is displayed.

   

2. Select the hyperlink under the Name column.

3. Click on Edit

   The Edit Hyperlink dialog is displayed

   

4. Complete this dialog as outlined in

5. Move hyperlinks up and down the list using the Move Up and Move Down buttons, or by dragging them to their new position in the list. This way you can prioritize a hyperlink to become the default hyperlink that is followed when click on in the main navigation window.

6. Click OK to confirm the edit or Cancel to return to JetStream leaving the hyperlink as it was.

Following Hyperlinks

Following Hyperlinks

To follow a hyperlink, simply click on it in the main navigation window. If multiple hyperlinks are attached to an item, the default hyperlink will be followed.

You can also follow one of the non-default hyperlinks attached to an item by selecting the item and going to Review, Hyperlinks and selecting the hyperlink from the list.

The default hyperlink can also be followed from the Properties control bar by selecting the item, right clicking on any tab in the bar and choosing Follow Default Hyperlink from the context menu.

Hyperlinks Options

Hyperlinks Options

Setting hyperlinks options

1. Go to Tools, Global Options, Hyperlinks

   The Hyperlinks dialog is displayed

   

2. Icons that appear overlapped in the main view can be hidden if the Hide Colliding Icons check box is checked.

3. Enter the distance in the Radius box for how close hyperlinks have to be in order to be drawn in the main view. Any hyperlinks further away than this distance will not be drawn. The default value of 0 means that all hyperlinks will be drawn.

4. Check the In 3D check box if you want to draw the hyperlinks icons in 3D in the main view. They then float in 3D space just in front of their attachment points to the items. If this box is unchecked, then all hyperlink icons are drawn in 2D over the top of the all geometry.

5. Enter the maximum number of icons to draw in the main view in the Max Icons box.

6. Hyperlinks can be drawn with leader lines (arrows) pointing to the attachment point on the item that the hyperlink is attached to. Enter the X- and Y- distance in Leader Offset for the number of pixels to the right and up that these leader lines will use.

7. Each hyperlink is a member of a >category. This enables you to easily manage sets of hyperlinks. Use the Visible check box to switch a category on or off in the main view. Some categories also have comments associated with them. Use the Hide Icons Without Comments check box, if available, to do exactly that - only draw hyperlinks that have a comment attached to it, so that you can see any areas of issue in the model. See for more information on comments.

8. Use the Image and Text radio buttons for each category to tell JetStream how to draw that category of hyperlinks. If text is drawn rather than the icon, the hyperlinks description is used as a tooltip style text box in the main view instead of an icon.

9. Click OK to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them.