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FlowTracer Beginner's Tutorials
Create a FlowTracer Project
The purpose of this tutorial is to guide one through the creation and use of a small FlowTracer project using a combination of the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Set Command Line Environment

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FlowTracer Tutorials
Discover FlowTracer functionality with interactive tutorials.
- FlowTracer Beginner's Tutorials
  - Create a FlowTracer Project
    The purpose of this tutorial is to guide one through the creation and use of a small FlowTracer project using a combination of the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
    - Set Command Line Environment
    - Create a Project
    - Enable a Shell
    - Restore the Shell Prompt
    - Check Project Information
    - Start the GUI Console
    - Use the Set Browser
    - Add a Job Interactively
    - GUI Job Views
      Now that you have a small flow, you can familiarize yourself with the console and its various views.
    - Navigate the Graph
    - Command Line Interface
  - Flow Description Language
  - Stop the Project
- FlowTracer Advanced Tutorials
Altair FlowTracer User Guide
FlowTracer is a complete system to create, manage, and execute design flows.
Altair FlowTracer Administrator Guide
This manual is aimed at the person who will be the administrator for FlowTracer. This person will be responsible for configuring the network resources, setting up the licensing, and establishing security and access rules for the system.
Altair FlowTracer Developer Guide

Set Command Line Environment

You need to have your shell command line environment set properly in order to use FlowTracer.

This includes changing your PATH environment variable so you can run the installed executables, and adding two environment variables that are used by the Altair Accelerator programs.

You can set your command line environment by sourcing a setup file created by the installation. You will source the setup file that matches your platform and shell.

Assuming that FlowTracer is installed at the path \opt\altair\vov\1212.1.0, this table shows the way to source the setup file so that your shell environment is correct.


Platform Type	Shell	Command to Source File
UNIX	csh tcsh	source /opt/altair/vov/1212.1.0 platform/etc/vovrc.csh
UNIX	bash sh ksh zsh	source /opt/altair/vov/1212.1.0 platform/etc/vovrc.sh
Windows	DOS	\opt\altair\vov\1212.1.0\win64\bat\vovinit.bat