Specifications

• On/Off: This button switches automatic update of the window on and off. When switched off, the

window does not update when the model is moving, and it is not possible to rotate, scale and pan

the view. The advantage of switching the update off is that it makes the analysis run faster,

especially on computers without a separate graphics processor.

• Properties : Button that opens the properties window (equivalent to menu item Windows ->

GUI Properties). In the properties, you have options for setting properties more specifically. We

shall not go into details about these options here, see below.

• Pan tool: Selecting this tool causes the cursor to change shape to a hand. When you drag the

mouse over the screen with the left button down, the picture moves with it.

• Zoom tool: When this tool is active, the cursor resembles a small magnifying glass. When you drag

the mouse over the picture with the left button down, it zooms in or out for upward or downward

movements respectively.

• Spin tool: This tool allows you to spin the model dynamically on the screen by dragging the mouse

with the left button down. The function is very intuitive and you will soon get the hang of it. It

works like the model is attached to an imaginative sphere centered on the screen. When you hold

down the left mouse button, you are grabbing the surface of the sphere and spinning it with the

movement of the mouse.

• Default views: These three buttons represent predefined viewing directions: the xy plane

(standard), the yz plane, and the xz plane respectively.

• Zoom all: This button refits the view to contain all the drawing elements.

• Record: This button starts video frame capturing explained in more detail below.

• Frame count: This panel displaying the number of captured frames during a recording.

• Stop recording: This button stops a video frame capturing session. The function is explained in

detail below.

Model View Properties

The Model View properties accessible to the user contains three groups:

1. View point settings that are also set by the typical interaction with Model View. Through Pan, Zoom

and Spin operations. These settings in the Properties be set directly or they can be grapped for use

in a camera implemented into your model. The view point definition in the properties of Model View

is using the AnyScript class AnyCameraModelView. This is done to enable easy exchange of view

point properties between model and Model View. The individual properties is introduced in the

AnyScript Reference Manual.

2. Viewer properties that control viewer behavior.

3. Scene properties that control general scene properties, such as back ground color, that are not

given in the model definition.