1.7.5. Special features
The contextual menu contains specific commands depending on the under-laying objects.
Easy selection of the units for the active result.
In order to work with a specific tool (animation control, meshes selector, etc.), it is possible to set the integrated pane hiding easily the other tools available.
Every pane for animations, meshes, results or preferences can be expanded or contracted. If contracted, then it is opened like a menu-button.
It is possible to create a new mesh by selecting some elements of existing meshes.
When creating the new mesh, it is possible to apply a translation or symmetry to the nodes.
List of nodes, elements and results, with the possibility of displaying them in the graphical screen.
Objects like vectors, main axes and local axes are drawn at a given density, avoiding to draw them on every node or element.
Option to draw the boundary conditions symbols.
It can read the results data from disk or recalculate it on demand. Only a few results data are kept in memory.
It can save all data on a file taking care of not rewriting the already written parts. Data is saved with the model or exported to a external file.
It allows full undo/redo operations.
It allows to create sophisticated animations by using an XML-file and an automatic creator form.
It is possible to export meshes and results to NASTRAN and VTK formats.