.
This chapter covers the items found under the
Controls
menu at the top of the MeshTV
Main
window. These items are:
Animate
,
Annotation
,
Blocks
,
Color table
,
Expressions
,
Groups
,
Lighting
,
Line-out
,
Material
,
Palette editor
,
Powerwall
, and
Species
. Menu items with a
...
in the name indicate that a window will open when the item is selected. The dotted line at the top of the menu denotes a "tear-off" menu, which means that when you click on the dotted line, the menu will "tear off" and stay posted until you close the window or press the ESC button while the window is selected. The
Controls
menu window is shown in
Controls Menu
.
This section gives a quick description for each menu item. More detailed descriptions follow this section.
The Controls pulldown menu allows you to animate families of plots at different time steps, to annotate your plots, to work with blocks in a multiblock problem, to modify the color table used for pseudocolor plots, to create your own variables, and to manipulate materials and material species.
Selecting this menu item pops up a window which allows you to set attributes for animating plots from files you have already opened.
Selecting this menu item opens a window which gives you control over MeshTV plot annotations.
Selecting this menu item pops up a window which allows you to manipulate blocks if your data file contains a multiblock problem.
Selecting this menu item pops up a window which allows you to edit color tables or select a color table for pseudocolor and surface plots.
Selecting this menu item pops up a window which lets you define your own variables and perform operations on them or on existing variables.
Selecting this menu item pops up a window which allows you to manipulate groups if your datafile contains meshes and variables in multiple groups.
Selecting this menu item pops up a window which allows you to manipulate light sources and shading of three-dimensional plots.
Selecting this menu item opens a window which lets you set globally-applying variables for reference lines and their accompanying curves.
Selecting this menu item opens a window which allows you change the color palette for a visualization window or select colors for plot attributes.
Selecting this menu item opens a window which allows you to manage how MeshTV windows are displayed on the Powerwall.
Selecting this menu item brings up a window which allows you to turn material species on and off.