Controling Graphical Objects

Graphical objects can be displayed or hidden by clicking the left mouse button on the object name in the object tree of the viewer window.

The graphical objects can be edited by clicking the right mouse button on the object name in the object tree of the viewer window. Different dialog windows will popup, depending on the type of object being edited. These windows will allow the user to modify some of the rendering attributes of the graphical objects.

Graphical objects can also be deleted from the viewer by holding the DELETE key and clicking the right mouse button on the object name in the object tree of the viewer window. Currently the objects are deleted with no further confirmation.

Objects coming from different domains of a parallel simulation are grouped together. When computing a set of ribbons, the resulting objects are also grouped together. The same operations mention above can be performed on whole groups of objects when clicking not on individual object names but on group names (see also the controls of the viewer window ). Note that the title of the editing window will indicate the type of object being edited, the group number and whether a single item is being edited or the whole group.

Axes

The controls provided in the axes editing dialog window allows the user to:

draw the axes as 3D objects (cylinders and cones)
toggle the arrow heads
toggle the axes anotations
reset the axes sizes to fit the bounding box
scale up/down each axis independently
set the color of the axes
set the line style (fill, dash, ...)
set the line width (pixels)
set the arrow head size and angle
set the anotation color
set the axes labels
set the anotation font size
set the resolution of the 3D objects (number of slices to draw a cylinder)
scale up/down the radius of the cylinders
set the material for the front and back faces of the 3D object

Bounding Box

The controls provided in the bounding box editing dialog window allow the user to:

draw the box as 3D objects (cylinders)
set the color of the box
set the line style (fill, dash, ...)
set the line width (in pixels)
set the resolution of the 3D objects (number of slices to draw a cylinder)
scale up/down the radius of the cylinders
set the materials for the front and back faces of the 3D objects

Points

The controls provided in the points editing dialog window allow the user to:

draw the points with a uniform color
toggle point anotations (if available at creation time)
draw the points as 3D objects (spheres)
draw all the points with a uniform size
scale up/down the point sizes
set the color to render points with a uniform color
set the resolution of the 3D objects (number of slices and stacks to draw a sphere)
set the materials of the front and back faces of the 3D objects
set the color of the anotation text
set the font size of the anotation text

Lines

The controls provided in the lines editing dialog window allow the user to:

draw the lines with a uniform color
draw the lines as 3D objects (cylinders)
set the color to render lines with a uniform color
set the line style (fill, dash, ...)
set the line width (in pixels)
set the resolution of the 3D objects (number of slices to draw a cylinder)
scale up/down the radius of the cylinders
set the materials for the front and back faces of the 3D objects

Surface Shading

The controls provided in the shading editing dialog window allow the user to:

draw the surface shading with a uniform color
toggle element (triangle) anotations (if available at creation time)
draw the triangles as flat (normals at the faces) or a smooth surface (normals at the points)
reverse the triangles orientation
set the color to render the surface with a uniform color
control de rendering of the front and back faces (render as: filled polygon, lines, points, do not render -remove-)
set the materials for the front and back faces
set the pattern to fill the polygons with
set the line style (fill, dash, ...)
set the line width (in pixels)
set the point size (in pixels)
set the anotation color
set the anotation font size

Vectors

The controls provided in the vectors editing dialog window allow the user to:

draw the vectors with a uniform color
draw the vectors as 3D objects (cylinders and cones)
toggle the arrow heads
draw all the vectors with a uniform size
scale up/down the vector sizes
set the color to render vectors with a uniform color
set the line style (fill, dash, ...)
set the line width (in pixels)
set the resolution of the 3D objects (number of slices to draw a cylinder)
scale up/down the radius of the cylinders
set the materials for the front and back faces of the 3D objects
set the arrow head size (as a fraction of the total longitude of the arrow) and angle

Ribbons

The controls provided in the ribbons editing dialog window allow the user to:

draw the ribbons with a uniform color
reverse the orientation of the ribbon discretization (triangles)
draw as ribbons, cylinders or spheres
set the color to render the ribbons with a uniform color
control de rendering of the front and back faces (render as: filled polygon, lines, points, do not render -remove-)
set the materials for the front and back faces
set the pattern to fill the polygons with
set the line style (fill, dash, ...)
set the line width (in pixels)
set the point size (in pixels)
set the resolution of the 3D objects (number of slices and stacks to draw cylinders and spheres)

Legends

The controls provided in the legends editing dialog window allow the user to:

set the legend title
set the lenend min/max values
extract the title, min and max values from a field of the current data set
set the color of the anotations
set the font size of the anotations
set the number of labels (values) to display
set the number of colors to draw
set the number of digits to use to display values

Text Anotations

The controls provided in the text editing dialog window allow the user to:

change the text of the anotation
set the color of the anotation
set the font size of the anotation

Curves

The controls provided in the curves editing dialog window allow the user to:

change the title of the curves object
set the color of the anotations
set the labels of the x and y axes
set the font size of the anotations
toggle the display of the curves legend
reset the axes range
toggle the display of a grid
set the line style to draw the grid
set the number of ticks in the x and y axes
set the axes range (xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax)
for each curve: (selected with the up/down arrows):

toggle the display of the curve
toggle the joining of the points with lines
toggle the drawing of symbols at the points
set the color of the curve
set the name of the curve
set a symbol to draw at the points
set the line style of the curve