Rename an Element
As models become more complex, it becomes more important to rename elements.
For this tutorial, open the Rename dialog-box to rename an element you see in the Assembly-Tree.
After you rename an element, it remains possible to identify the element-type from its icon. The icon pre-pends the element-name in the trees in the Element Explorer, and if you select the element, the icon also shows in the Selection-Window.
There are three(3) methods to rename an element:
Method 1: Name the Element with its dialog-box
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With an open dialog-box: 1.Double-Click the element-name at the top of the dialog-box 2.Enter a new element-name 3.Press the Enter key on your keyboard. Unfortunately, not all element-types have a dialog-box with which you can rename the element. |
Method 2: Rename elements in the Element-Explorer
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Do the Windows® procedure: 1.Click, pause, click the element in the Element-Explorer - for example the Assembly-Tree 2.Enter a new element name 3.Press the Enter key on your keyboard Unfortunately, not all element-types show in the Assembly-Tree. |
Method 3: Rename dialog-box
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This method applies to all elements you can click in the Graphic-Area., Assembly-Tree, Geometry-Tree, and Kinematics-Tree. Use the Rename dialog: 1.Click an element, in the graphic-area or the Element-Explorer, so that it shows in the Selection-Window In the Selection-Box: 2.Right-click the element you want to rename 3.Click Rename element in the contextual-menu The Rename dialog-box is now open. Old Name - Read-Only New Name - 1.Enter a New Name (add a Letter to the end of the New-Name e.g. NewName-A) 2.Press the Enter key on your keyboard 3.Click TOP-TIP/ Please do not use a name that ends in a number (0, 1, ... ,9). |
 Rename dialog |
at the top of the dialog-box