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An overview of the newFASANT graphical user interface is given.
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Welcome
Release Notes
See what's new in the latest release.
Get Started
The newFASANT User Guide contains examples with step-by-step instructions on how to get started with newFASANT.
Examples
The newFASANT User Guide contains a collection of examples that teaches you newFASANT concepts and essentials.
Utilities
The newFASANT utilities allows you to set up a remote server, use the batch utility to mesh and execute a project or upload a project to a queueing system.
GUI
An overview of the newFASANT graphical user interface is given.
Post-Process
Results can be post-processed to obtain customized results.
Antennas
A large collection of antennas are supported as well as importing radiation patterns and specifying the antenna feeding.
Materials
Materials can be defined, edited, deleted and assigned to specific surfaces or objects.
Command Line
The command line can be used to draw geometries or change the GUI configuration.
GTD
GTD can be used for 3D analysis of on board antennas and coverage parameters for radiocommunications systems.
PO
PO is used for radar cross section analysis of electrically large and complex targets using physical optics (PO).
GTD-PO
GTD-PO combines the GTD and PO high-frequency techniques for the RCS analysis of complex bodies as well as antenna and radio propagation in large urban environments.
MONCROS
MONCROS is used for 3D radar cross section (RCS) using the method of moments (MOM) technique.
MOM
MOM is used for the 3D analysis of complex antennas, on board antennas, electromagnetic compatibility and radar cross section (RCS).
Periodical Structures
Periodical structures is used for the analysis and design of reflection and transmission coefficients in periodical structures and metamaterials.
Parabolic Equation
PE is used for the analysis of radio-wave propagation over land and sea for medium and large distances.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is used for the 3D analysis of ultrasound emitting sources and time delay response simulation.
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
View the list of commonly used acronyms in newFASANT.

Tree

The left side of the main window features the tree panel, where the tree can be found

The purpose of the tree is to provide a simple and global view of the parameters of the current project, as well as an alternative way to modify these parameters.

The following figure shows the tree for a Moncros project:

Figure 1. Example tree of a Moncros project

The tree is composed of nodes, which are laid out in a hierarchical structure. This means that some nodes can have children nodes that represent related project parameters. A node that owns at least one children is called a parent node, and its children can be hidden (also known as collapsing the parent node) or shown (also known by expanding the parent node) by clicking the “-“ (minus) sign to the left of the node to hide its children or the “+” (plus) sign to the left of the node to show its children. Additionally, it is possible to double-click on the node to toggle its state between collapsed and expanded.

Some nodes provide functions that are not visible at first glance, as they may be provided through a contextual menu of the node. Showing the contextual menu for a node is as simple as right-clicking that node. Note that most nodes don’t have a contextual menu.

Regarding to the contents of the tree, there’s a common node that is displayed in every project (module independent) the geometry node. Additionally, every module provides its own set of nodes that represent the parameters of a project from that module. However, the user interface of the tree is the same across all modules and the different ways of editing project parameters is explained in the following subsections.