Tutorial 10: Add parts list tables to your document with ease

Parts lists are extremely important to companies that need to assembly products, provide a spare parts catalog and other application such as user guides. With QuadriSpace Pages3D, it is very simple to create and edit custom parts lists; and then add these parts lists to your document page with a simple drag and drop.

1. Close the current Document.
2. Open the example file “[YOUR INSTALLATION DIRECTORY]/Tutorial 2/tutorial_2_part_10.qsd. This will open  the ‘chainsaw’ document without a parts lists.
3. Select the Insert Ribbon.
4. To add the default parts list to your document page, click on the Part Table Button (NOT Part Text) and drag box out in the gray area below the text on the right. When asked “Setup table to be interactive with 3D view?”, select “YES”. Pages3D will create a table of the default parts list in the area that you dragged out.
5. Use the font size pull-down from the Font Group to select a font size of 10.
6. Now turn OFF the Edit Page Button.
7. You should now be able to click on the table to highlight the associated part in the 3D view.
8. You can set the views highlight color to RED by Selecting the 3D View Ribbon and from the Render Style Group, click on Highlight Button and choose the red color.

Parts Lists are easy to create on a document page. Clicking a part in the list will highlight the part in the 3D view.