The application Home tab provides an option to connect to Altair One, view recent activities, launch Altair Drive Web application, open Altair One Drive files location in Windows Explorer
and view the preferred log details.
Submit a request to Altair Drive Web for generating a preview for a model file from
your mounted location.
Before you begin: Login into Altair
One to visualize generated preview details of a model file.
Preview the metadata values and view model in 3D using Altair Drive Web.
Click Open Folder on the Home
tab.
Your mounted files location is displayed in Windows
Explorer.
Right-click a model file, click Altair One > Generate Preview.
A request to generate a preview for the selected model file is submitted.
After the generate preview is submitted, Windows notifications are displayed to
help you monitor the progress of the preview. You can open the action center
from the task bar () or use +A
to view all the notifications.
To navigate to the same model file in Altair Drive Web, click View
Online on the Home tab of Altair Drive
Desktop application.
The Altair Drive Web is launched and the Files
tab is displayed.
Click Notification
and click the model file name link to
navigate to the model file location.
Hover over the model file, click Details
.
A panel opens on the right.
By default, the Info tab displays
the general information of the selected file.
Click .
A preview of the model file is displayed in 3D view.
Click Metadata
The generated metadata values for the model file is displayed.