While the preview is still showing in IE, navigate to the path in the address bar using Windows Explorer. THIS ‘HTML frame’ is the key to capturing properly formatted SVG images. The preview will appear in Internet Explorer (IE) and will show the local path to the ‘temporary’ SVG image and the supporting HTML frame. Once the navigation links have been created, it’s simply a matter of previewing each of the views with the proper Technical Illustration settings. This way, you can move the main folder to any computer or website and the links will still work. TIP: For this example I’ve setup links that are path independent and relative to the folder the content is saved. You will be prompted for the TYPE of link and the PATH of that link. To ‘jump’ from one place to another, link a Geometry or Collaborative actor to a location by selecting one or several actors, then in the Property Manager, select the LINK box. It is best to setup what you would like each SVG view to be called, and determine a naming convention that is consistent and easy to apply.īy setting up a navigation structure ahead of time, the creation of the interactive content is reduced to a repetitive series of steps, and the result is immediately usable. In 3DVIA Composer, one can hyperlink any actor to nearly any location, whether it be HTTP, FTP, a file on the network, or any point or portion of an animation in the Composer file. Once the BOM ID’s and callouts are placed in the views, and the BOM is shown, the Technical Illustration Workshop will assist us in saving the SVG images with the proper line weights and effects for our vector graphics images.īefore we save the SVG files, we need to create the ‘navigation’. SVG files from Composer have an ‘automatic’ foundation of interaction built in to them by the BOM ID’s and callouts placed in the views with the BOM Workshop. However, there is a trick to getting nicely formatted SVG files to show on HTML web pages, and it all comes from the PREVIEW. 3DVIA Composer has long had the ability to save Views as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files viewable with a web browser.

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