The Project Data Bar

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Your project contents can be managed using the Project Data control bar.

Presenting a summary of your project files (files associated with your project), loaded data objects and loaded 3D visual data, you can use the Project Data control bar to manage the contents of your project and the data you are working with.

Note: Data that exists as a file on disk and has not yet been loaded into memory are referred to as "files". Once a file has been loaded, it becomes an "object". Some objects can be visualized, using one or more "overlays".

See View Hierarchy in Studio products.

Context-sensitive menus give you object- and file-level control over your strategic planning data.

Your Project Data control bar is split into the following sections:

Project Files

Project files are files that are associated with your project. These files support your planning optimization scenarios. These file references can link to files anywhere accessible to your PC, such as standard legends, pit design data and so on.

See Project Files folder.
Loaded Objects

All loaded data objects appear here, including visual (3D) and tabular data. Use this menu section to access object management tools and utilities.

See Loaded Objects folder.
3D Folder(s)

You can display your 3D data in one or more 3D windows. Some planning tasks will automatically load visual data whereas others providing tools for you to "Load Data" associated with a particular task. For example, you can opt to load design data in advance of assigning manual attributes interactively.

Where multiple 3D windows are displayed, they can be 'independent', permitting unique/isolated formatting or linked to the primary 3D view.

Independent, embedded 3D windows are automatically created each time you view a new surface in a project session (say, pushback surfaces via the Visualize panel, for example).

Where new 3D windows are generated to display a project data file, the same file is added to whatever is currently shown in the primary 3D window. Each 3D window is displayed as a separate item in the Project Data control bar. Overlays for all displayed objects are listed within those folders and can be formatted and animated independently.

See Project Data Bar - 3D Folder(s) .

Plots: Survey plots are listed in this part of the data bar. You can expand each item to reveal the data that comprises the plot. Selecting an item in this area will automatically display the Plots window.

See The Plots Window.

External Files

"External" files are files that sit outside your project folder (the folder that includes your project file). You can recognize an external file by a vertical line on the left of the file icon. For example, the image below (shown at 4x size) displays a "local" file on the left (inside the project folder) and an "external" file on the right:

You can see where an external file is located by selecting and displaying the Properties control bar.