5.1 More regarding the object detail screen

The start of this chapter introduced the object detail screen in the context of the process of selecting an object (to bring up the object detail screen) and then loading that object to the build plate (via the detail screen’s “3D PRINT” button). Section 5.2 will discuss the “EDIT” button (only available for your own objects; used to navigate to the object management screen where for your own objects you may change the information displayed here, at the detail screen), Section 5.5 will discuss the object detail screen’s “DOWNLOAD” button, Section 5.6 will discuss the “SHARE” button, Section 5.7 will discuss the “REMOVE ME” button (only present on objects shared with you individually), Section 5.10 will discuss the heart-shaped “LIKE” icon (only active for others’ objects), Section 5.11 will discuss the “COMMENTS” pane for commenting on objects, Section 5.12 will discuss the “REPORT” button for reporting problematic objects, and Section 10.1 will go into further detail regarding the “3D PRINT” button and getting printing!

However, the object detail screen has several additional features to become familiar with as you continue to use the Polar Cloud. Displayed on the object detail screen are two panes. The upper pane displays the name of the object, a primary image and possibly additional images of the object, control buttons, descriptive text, the object license, etc. For the lower pane, you may select “FILES” or “COMMENTS” to display the individual files comprising the object, or comment threads regarding the object, respectively; the lower pane has its own control buttons.

In the upper pane:

• At the upper left, the “Display Name” and icon for the Polar Cloud owner (creator) of the object are displayed. Clicking on the member’s icon or display name will take you to the member’s profile screen.
• The “Name” of the object is also displayed at the upper left. (For your own objects, you can change the “Name” and the other object details listed below at the object management screen, discussed in Section 5.2.)
• At the upper right are three icons tallying, respectively, individual Polar Cloud members with whom the object is shared, groups with whom the object is shared, and “LIKE”s for the object. Click the heart icon (of an object not your own) to “LIKE” the object yourself.
• A primary image for the object is displayed towards the upper left, below the object name.
• Below the primary image, additional thumbnail images for the object may be present; clicking on one of these small thumbnail images will display it in the larger size in place of the main object image. If the object has more images than may be displayed at once, you may scroll through a carousel of images using the left or right (blue) arrows.
• The main control buttons are displayed:¹ “3D PRINT”, “DOWNLOAD”, and “SHARE”. (An object of your own would also display an “EDIT” button; see for instance Figure 5.4. An object shared with you individually would also display a “REMOVE ME” button; see Figure 5.48.) Note that the “3D PRINT” button is a button you’ll be using a lot, as it loads the object to the virtual build plate, a process described in detail in Section 10.1.
• Formatted text “Description” and “Recommended Print Settings” are displayed.
• “Tags”, if the object has any set, are displayed.
• The object’s license (full details of which may be displayed by clicking on the license string) and the date the object was created and last modified are displayed.

On the lower pane:

• Under the “FILES” tab, control buttons “DOWNLOAD” and “3D PRINT” (equivalent to the control buttons at the top of the screen) are displayed, plus a “REPORT” button (to report an inappropriate object to Polar Cloud administrators).
• Under the “FILES” tab, the file(s) comprising the object are displayed in a tile listing. Each file tile displays a rendered image (for object files) or file icon (for subsidiary, descriptive files), the file name, the number of prints (for object files) and number of downloads of the file, and the file size. (A logo link back to the object file’s source may be displayed towards the lower right of the image on such object component tiles; see Chapter 6.)
• Under the “COMMENTS” tab, Polar Cloud members may post comments, questions, or tips regarding the object. (Note that “COMMENTS” may be disabled via the object manage screen; when “COMMENTS” have been disabled, no “COMMENTS” tab will be present on the object detail screen.)

Figure 5.5 shows a sample object detail screen for a public object. This object comprises several component object files, and includes several images (including photos of the printed object). It includes some formatted “Description” and “Recommended Print Settings” text, as well as several “Tags”.

In Figure 5.5, note the “License” field at the lower right of the image (upper) pane of the screen, above the “FILES” pane; clicking on the license name, “CC-BY-SA” in the example of Figure 5.5, will open a new window to the full licensing details. “CC-BY-SA” indicates a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license – the default for Polar Cloud objects. (Note that for your own objects, you may, and in the case of objects uploaded from external sources often should, select a different type of license at the object “manage” screen, discussed in Section 5.2.)

In Figure 5.5, note that this composite object is comprised of three separate .stl files, shown in the lower “FILES” pane. Each such individual .stl file or OBJ file, as well as any uploaded images of the object, will also be displayed in the upper pane as separate thumbnail icons below the primary image for the object. When there are more image thumbnails than will fit, they will be displayed carousel-style, with blue arrow keys to scroll through the icons. Clicking on any of these thumbnails below the primary image will cause that thumbnail image to be displayed in the bigger, primary image window; see for instance Figure 5.6.

Examining the enlarged photo of the screw component in Figure 5.6, one may observe that this screw component benefits from printing in a particular (perhaps not immediately intuitive) orientation, using support. (The “Recommended Print Settings” text also discusses this orientation recommendation.)