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Pull-down Menu Items:

  1. File
    Creates models, Saves, and Exports (to specific formats). Also saves the Set-up for a future session and Exits the application.
  2. Edit
    Provides tools to create and edit model data. Widgets provide editing of grid attributes (rescaling and centering), editing the grid in 2-D and 3-D, and 3D editing of initial conditions, time-varying boundary conditions, and material properties and their location. See Section 5 for a description and Tutorial #2 (Section 3.2) for their use.
  3. Draw -
    Provides various drawing options which include: a new window with a different perspective, toggle controls for drawing objects (axes, wireframe, and the grid lattice), radio-buttons for coordinate system (right- or left-handed), colormaps, lighting model, stereo view, and other options (smoothing, depth-cuing, wide angle perspective, and draw area size). See Section 4 for a description of setting these selections.
  4. Tools -
    Provides the primary drawing tools for scalar and vector data using multiple orthogonal slices (vertex-, cell-based, or both) with transparent overlay of an image, precise view control, cell contouring and multiple isosurfaces, with transparency. Section 4 has a description of each tool and the Tutorials in Section 3 show their use.
  5. Remote -
    This tear-off widget provides for remote tracking and steering of simulators through a connection interface, a list of registered variables (for interactive tracking) and a list of registered parameters (for interactive steering). See Tutorial #3 in Section 3.3 for additional details.



Robert Sharpley
Tue Dec 9 10:30:18 EST 1997