Your first 15 minutes

Nothing in this tutorial is saved. You cannot change the project’s records by following it.

What you will learn

• Open a structure, and know when it is ready.
• Move around the model with the mouse and the keyboard.
• Measure a distance on the structure.
• Find out what any button or figure means.

Before you begin

• You have signed in once. See Sign in for the first time.
• You use Google Chrome on a desktop or laptop computer, with a mouse.

Step 1 — Open the structure

1. Sign in at twin.aer-intel.com.

   The projects page opens.

2. On the Raiva Upstream V1 card, click Open twin →.

   A progress window opens over the picture. It shows four stages, from Finding a high-performance computer for you… to Model loaded — 100%.

3. Wait until the window closes.

   The model of the structure appears, and Navigate is lit on the toolbar at the bottom of the window.

Step 2 — Move around

1. Drag with the left mouse button.

   The model turns around a centre point.

2. Drag with the right or the middle mouse button.

   The view moves sideways.

3. Turn the mouse wheel.

   The view moves closer or further away.

4. Double-click a point on the concrete.

   The view flies to that point, and the point becomes the new centre of rotation.

5. Press the arrow keys.

   ← and → move the view sideways. ↑ and ↓ move it straight up and down.

Note

The zoom stops at about 1.5 m from the surface. To go closer, turn the wheel three more times in quick succession; you can then go to 0.40 m. Closer than 1.5 m the picture is magnified, not sharper.

Step 3 — Measure a distance without saving it

1. On the toolbar, click Measure ▸ Distance.

   Distance is lit. A click now places a point.

2. Click one end of what you want to measure — for example, one side of a joint between two blocks.

3. Click the other end.

4. Press Enter to finish the line.

   The line appears on the model with its length. The Measurement panel opens on the left and shows Length and other figures.

5. In the Measurement panel, click Explain.

   A plain-language sentence appears under every figure. Click Explain again to hide the sentences.

6. Press Esc until Navigate is lit.

7. At the bottom of the Measurement panel, click Clear all.

   The line disappears. It was never saved.

Step 4 — Ask what something means

1. On the toolbar, click Explain.

2. Click Advanced on the toolbar.

   A card says what Advanced is for. Nothing is pressed or changed while Explain is on.

3. Click any other button, figure or label that you want to understand.

4. Click Done to leave Explain.

Step 5 — Leave

1. At the left end of the toolbar, click ‹ Projects.

   The projects page opens.

2. To finish for the day, click Sign out at the top right.

What you learned

• How to open a structure and read the progress window.
• How to move as in a CAD model: drag, right-drag, wheel, double-click and the arrow keys.
• How to measure without saving, and how to clear the result.
• How to ask AerTwin what anything on the screen means.

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