Each newly created presentation is displayed in the VTK 3D Viewer. VTK 3D Viewer is detailly described in the documentation on GUI module.
To display an existing presentation, right-click on it in the Object Browser and select Display.
Right mouse-click on the Presentation gives access to the following options:
All parameters are context-sensitive:
NOT all types of visualization and NOT all properties can be set for a
certain 3D presentation.
Erase all - allows to hide all objects from the viewer.
Edit - allows to return to the menu where the presentation has been created and change its parameters.
Rename - allows to rename the presentation.
Copy - allows to create a copy of the presentation in the same subfolder (time stamp) in the Object Browser.
Erase - allows to hide the selected presentation from the viewer.
Display Only - allows to display only the selected presentation, hiding all other from the viewer.
Representation - allows to switch among the available representation types.
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Shrink |
Shading on |
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Properties
Opacity - allows to set the value of opacity of the presentation between 0 (transparent) and 100 (opaque).
Line Width - allows to set the width of lines representing edges of the presentation between 1 (thin) and 100 (thick).
Translate Presentation - allows to translate the presentation along coordinate axes.
Clipping Planes - allows to create cross-section views of presentations.
Sweep - allows to display pseudo-animation of the presentation.
Selection Info - provides information about the attributes of elements displayed in the viewer.
Dump view - exports an object from the viewer in bmp, png, jpg or jpeg image format.
Change Background - allows to change the properties of the background.
When you create several presentations of the same
object, you may wish to see them simultaneously, which
might be impossible, because they all are located at the same place. To
solve this problem, right-click in the viewer and select Arrange
Actors in the pop-up menu.
In Auto mode you specify along which Axis and at which Relative Distance the presentations should be lined up.
In Manual mode you set the coordinates for each presentation separately.
Displaying several presentations at the same time
may cause superposition of their scalar bars. To avoid this, check Arrange Scalar Bars radio button in
the Preferences - > Post-Pro - >
Scalar Bar. A separate scalar bar will be displayed for each presentation.
Alternatively you may wish to merge the scalar bars to have a common scalar bar for all presentations. To do this, select several presentations or fields in the object browser, right-click and from the pop-up menu select Merge Scalar Range.
To restore separate bars and scales for each module select Use Field Range from the same menu.
