Once given a name, they can be quickly looked up by name. An operation on a scene. In Inventor, actions are derived from the SoAction abstract base class. Actions include the GLRenderAction, RayPickAction, WriteAction, SearchAction, GetMatrixAction, HandleEventAction and GetBoundingBoxAction. An axis-aligned box that is guaranteed to contain some part of the scene.
Inventor uses bounding boxes to optimize certain operations.
One or more pieces of data stored in a node or engine. Group A node that contains other nodes as children. The generic name for any object that is part of the scene, such as lights, cameras, shapes. Path A series of nodes, each of which is a parent of the next node in the series. Paths are returned as the result of pick and search actions.