Show Controls

Used to manipulate control nodes in the control panel that lists all the control nodes of utility group and can be organized by setting their properties.

Accessed from:

Ribbon: Computational Design > Model > Controls > Show Controls
Ribbon: Computational Design > Home > Primary > Show Controls

The GenerativeComponents control panel provides a convenient way to group together all of your nodes that display useful information or provide interactive controls.

The control panel supports the node types Color, ColorGradient, DateTime, Expression, Gauge, Slider, and Watch.

Every newly-created node of any of those node types is added to the control panel, automatically.

right-click > Edit — activates the Node Properties dialog where node properties are managed.
right-click > Show in Control Panel — when unchecked, the node entry is removed from the control panel list.

Setting	Description
Toolbar icons	Tools to manipulate control modes (Choose which nodes are shown here) – toggles and displays the left-most column of "Show in Control Panel" check boxes against every control node currently in graph. (List by Type) – in this mode, the nodes in the list are grouped by their types. (Hold Changes Until Applied) – in this mode, changes we make to the nodes' values are not applied until and unless we click the Apply Changes button. (Apply Changes) – in "hold changes until applied" mode, clicking this button applies all pending changes. (Cancel Changes) – in "hold changes until applied" mode, clicking this button discards all pending changes.
Control panel list	Lists node details in three column. (Show in Control Panel) – check to show the node in the Control panel list. Only checked nodes in the column are listed when you toggle back the Choose nodes icon. This column toggles when is clicked. Node - The Node name. Displays the default name, assigned when the node was created. Value - The Control tool's values. Displays the graphical controls used to interactively set the value for the node.

Setting

Description

Toolbar icons

Tools to manipulate control modes

(Choose which nodes are shown here) – toggles and displays the left-most column of "Show in Control Panel" check boxes against every control node currently in graph.
(List by Type) – in this mode, the nodes in the list are grouped by their types.
(Hold Changes Until Applied) – in this mode, changes we make to the nodes' values are not applied until and unless we click the Apply Changes button.
(Apply Changes) – in "hold changes until applied" mode, clicking this button applies all pending changes.
(Cancel Changes) – in "hold changes until applied" mode, clicking this button discards all pending changes.

Control panel list

Lists node details in three column.

(Show in Control Panel) – check to show the node in the Control panel list. Only checked nodes in the column are listed when you toggle back the Choose nodes icon. This column toggles when is clicked.
Node - The Node name. Displays the default name, assigned when the node was created.
Value - The Control tool's values. Displays the graphical controls used to interactively set the value for the node.

Key-in: GC DIALOG CONTROLPANEL SHOW