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Tip: How to Rotate CATIA V5 model by certain degrees?

How to test the Visualization Performance of your CAD workstation?

Requirement:

While working with the component, sometimes it is necessary to perform certain degree of
Rotation of the 3D component

Solution:

This solution explains how to rotate a model by certain degrees.

This can be also used to test the 3D visualization performance of your workstation.

Following steps can be followed to rotate the component by specific degrees:-

1. Open any CATProduct or CATPart file.

2. In the power input box, enter the following command:

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The Rotation Performance dialog box opens:

3. In the Rotate Axis area, select the desired rotation axis by clicking the appropriate option:

Vertical: corresponds to the default axis which is vertical and parallel to the screen
Horizontal: corresponds to the horizontal axis, parallel to the screen
Sight: corresponds to the axis which is perpendicular to the screen.

4. In the Parameters area, you need to define:

The angle for each rotation step (in degrees) in the Angle field.

The number of steps in the Repeat field.

5. In the LOD Selection area, select the desired level of details:

Static Mode
Dynamic Mode.

Depending on the mode you select, the test is performed according to the value you set in Level of Details area
available in Tools > Options > General > Display > Performance:

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Selecting Static Mode means that the test is performed using the value set with the Static slider.

Selecting Dynamic Mode means that the value used for the test is the one defined with the
While Moving slider.

6. Click Apply to start testing.

The parameters you defined are applied and the corresponding result performance is displayed in the
Visualization Time box as shown below

The time displayed corresponds to the average visualization time per frame (in milliseconds).

This average value is computed as follows: for instance, if you display 40 times your model (whatever the
Angle value), the average visualization time will be the total visualization time (i.e. is the sum of all milliseconds
spent to draw the 40 frames) divided by 40.

The total visualization time is not displayed in this dialog box but you can compute it very easily. To do so,
multiply the value displayed in the Visualization Time box by the value displayed in the Repeat box.

Click Cancel to exit the command

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