Pipeline Favorites is a very powerful way for you to list your pipeline scripts as a Table of Contents and easily access a existing pipelines that are frequently used in your workflow. Your list of pipeline scripts can be viewed or run from the Pipeline Favorites list box. The image below shows how you can access your pipeline favorite scripts from the Pipeline Menu.

Your list of favorites can also be accessed by clicking Alt + W.

When Visual3D is installed, there are typically no pipelines made available to the favorites, so the list box is empty.

The pipeline favorites is populated based on data in the default Script Repository Folder. The Pipeline Folder can be edited in the Program Options.

Any scripts or subfolders within your selected folder will be populated in the list box.

On your computer, create a folder for each collection of pipelines in the default script folder. If the default script folder is populated, the pipeline list box will be populated when Visual3D is executed. Any folders within the default script folder that contain pipelines will be populated in the Favorites dialog. If scripts in the default folder aren't arranged into folders they will be populated alongside subfolders containing scripts.

Each of these folders can be expanded to reveal the pipelines stored in the folder. Double clicking with the Left Mouse Button will execute the pipeline script. Execution results can be displayed after running by selecting “Display Results”.

To illustrate how to use the pipeline favorites, we list here two pipeline examples that you will setup in your pipeline script folder.

Create a folder called Popup_Example_1 in the default script folder. In a text editor, copy the following pipeline commands and save as Example1.v3s in the newly created Popup_Example_1 folder.

!**************************************************************************
! Pipeline popup example 1 script
!************************************************************************** 

! Starting Fresh - Clear Workspace 
File_New 
;

Set_Pipeline_Parameter_To_Folder_Path 
/PARAMETER_NAME=FOLDER 
/PARAMETER_VALUE= 
! /PARAMETER_VALUE_SEARCH_FOR= 
! /PARAMETER_VALUE_REPLACE_WITH= 
! /PARAMETER_VALUE_APPEND= 
;

! Now ensure that the file open dialogs point to this folder not to the previously opened folders 
Set_Default_Folders 
! /PLUGINS= 
! /SEGMENT_GRAPHICS= 
! /PIPELINE= 
! /REPORT_TEMPLATE= 
/MODEL_TEMPLATE=::FOLDER 
/MOTION_FILE=::FOLDER 
! /DEFAULT_DATA= 
! /CMO_LIBRARY_PATH= 
! /DEFAULT_REPORT_TEMPLATE= 
! /DEFAULT_MODEL_TEMPLATE= 
;

Create_Hybrid_Model 
! /CALIBRATION_FILE= 
! /RANGE=ALL_FRAMES 
;

! Load the Model Template 
Apply_Model_Template 
! /MODEL_TEMPLATE= 
! /CALIBRATION_FILE= 
;

Open_File 
! /FILE_NAME= 
;

Assign_Model_File 
! /CALIBRATION_FILE= 
! /MOTION_FILE_NAMES= 
! /REMOVE_EXISTING_ASSIGNMENTS=FALSE 
;

Create a folder called Popup_Example_2 in the default script folder. For this example, we will split the commands from Example1.v3s into two pipeline scripts. In a text editor, copy the following pipeline commands and save as Build Model.v3s in the newly created Popup_Example_2 folder.

!**************************************************************************
! Pipeline popup example 2 build model script
!**************************************************************************

! Starting Fresh - Clear Workspace 
File_New 
;

Set_Pipeline_Parameter_To_Folder_Path 
/PARAMETER_NAME=FOLDER 
/PARAMETER_VALUE= 
! /PARAMETER_VALUE_SEARCH_FOR= 
! /PARAMETER_VALUE_REPLACE_WITH= 
! /PARAMETER_VALUE_APPEND= 
;

! now ensure that the file open dialogs point to this folder not to the previously opened folders 
Set_Default_Folders 
! /PLUGINS= 
! /SEGMENT_GRAPHICS= 
! /PIPELINE= 
! /REPORT_TEMPLATE= 
/MODEL_TEMPLATE=::FOLDER 
/MOTION_FILE=::FOLDER 
! /DEFAULT_DATA= 
! /CMO_LIBRARY_PATH= 
! /DEFAULT_REPORT_TEMPLATE= 
! /DEFAULT_MODEL_TEMPLATE= 
;

Create_Hybrid_Model 
! /CALIBRATION_FILE= 
! /RANGE=ALL_FRAMES 
;

! Load the Model Template 
Apply_Model_Template 
! /MODEL_TEMPLATE= 
! /CALIBRATION_FILE= 
;

In a text editor, copy the remaining two pipeline commands from Popup_Example1.v3s and save as Open Movement Trial.v3s in the newly created Popup_Example_2 folder.

!**************************************************************************
! Pipeline popup example 2 Favorites Open Movement Trial
!**************************************************************************

Open_File 
! /FILE_NAME= 
;

Assign_Model_File 
! /CALIBRATION_FILE= 
! /MOTION_FILE_NAMES= 
! /REMOVE_EXISTING_ASSIGNMENTS=FALSE 
;

When Visual3D is launched, the Favorites Dialog should look as follows:

Each of these items can be expanded.

If the Display Pipeline Results is checked, the Processing Results will be displayed.

For example the first example pipeline will generate these pipeline results: