Activate Pango

To activate Pango once installed, in Navisworks (Simulate or Manage), activate the Animalabs tab and click Mesh Analysis to open the Pango Panel. Alternatively from the View tab > Windows > Pango.

Select a Mesh and click Analyse Selection, the computed information is displayed in the Panel under each Section for the toggled properties. To analyse multiple meshes consecutively, activate the Automatic Analysis mode to automatically refresh the analysis results each time the selection changes.

Display & Behaviour Settings

At the top right of the Panel, click the Settings button to change the default Display and Behaviour of Pango:

  • Activate Select on Click to automatically select an object when clicked in Automatic Analysis mode. When turned of, the object or triangle is analysed, but Navisworks selection is not changed
  • Choose an Overlay mode between:
    • Render While Active: the overlaid labels are only displayed while the Automatic Analysis mode is on
    • Always Render: the overlaid labels are always being rendered until the Analysis is cleared out
    • Never Render: no overlay labels are displayed
  • The Font value control the size of the Font for overlaid labels
  • Activate the Label Background mode for labels to be painted on top of a black background stickers to avoid visual clash with geometry and other rendered items. While in activated, the labels are all painted with white font

Properties Sections

Pango is organised in collapsible Sections by topic of interest. Each Section exposes a number of properties to calculate on a mesh.

When a property is toggled on, it is calculated with the result displayed each time a mesh is analysed. In addition you can turn on 3D overlay for the calculated value to be displayed in 3D as an overlay on the mesh. The following Sections are available:

  • Wireframe and Mesh: providing statistics about the selection such as Triangle or Edges count, and defects
  • Quantification: to compute dimensions, areas and volumes of the mesh
  • Outline: to compute Well Known Text (WKT) outline of the component and associated settings
  • Chainage: to manage Alignment Networks and compute chainages

Refer to each section documentation for more information.

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