INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE





1- Tabs

This software splits the design of a project in "Tabs" (pages). Every tab lets you insert data regarding current design phase.


2- Viewport

Viewport shows the 2D or 3D section of current project.

You can use mouse wheel to zoom.

To pan view, keep right mouse button pressed and move mouse.


3- Commands

Every tab has commands specific to current project phase.

In the sample shown, current tab is relative to the lines insertion, therefore a series of commands for lines manipulation are shown.


4- Progress bar

When software is performing an operation, this bar will inform you about its progress. In some cases (for example, during simulation) operations can be stopped clicking "Stop" button.


5- Keyboard button

When selected particular operations (for example, creates lines), will activate this button, which will allow you to manually enter the required values. This feature is activated by pressing the appropriate button or the enter key.


6- Keyboard commands

There are various keyboard command that are extremely useful to interact with the software: