Presentation of working environment

Flux window

The general Flux window consists of several zones. These zones are identified in the figure below.

Flux desktop is automatically configured depending on:

dimension of the application (2D or 3D)
the physical application defined (no physics defined, magnetostatics, electrostatics…)
the context: Geometry / Mesh / Physics / Solver / Post-processing (toolbars)
or sub context (healing context for the CAD geometry…)

The zones and their principal roles are briefly described below:


Element	GUI	Function
Title bar		General information: Software name, version number Application (here, Magneto Static 3D) Project name (CASE1.FLU)
Menus bar		Access to the different menus: Project, Application, Geometry, Mesh, Physics
		Access to the different menus: Parameter/Quantity, Solving process, Post-processing
		Access to the different menus: Display, View, Select, Tools, Extensions, Help
Context icons		Access to the toolbars corresponding to the context Geometry
		Access to the toolbars corresponding to the context Mesh
		Access to the toolbars corresponding to the context Physics
		Access to the toolbars corresponding to the context Solving


Element	GUI	Function
Project Menus Toolbars		Commands of the Project menu: New, Open a project
Project Menus Toolbars		Commands of the Project menu: Execute a command file, Save, Close, Exit
Tools Menus Toolbars		Commands of the Tools menu: Undo, Close all open dialog boxes


Element	GUI	Function
Geometry Context toolbars		Commands of the Geometry context:
		Enter on Sketcher context (2D and Skew) or the Modeler context (3D) to create the geometry
		Create geometric entities
		Propagate / Extrude
		Build faces / volumes
		Measure
		Check of the geometry, Healing context of CAD geometry
Mesh Context toolbars		Commands of the Mesh context:
		Create mesh entities
		Mesh domain, lines / faces / volumes, Generate 2 nd order elements
		Delete the mesh
		Assign mesh information
		Structure the mesh
		Check the mesh
Physics context toolbars		Commands of Physics context:
		Create physical entities
		Create I/O parameters / spatial quantities
		Import materials, Orient a material, Assign regions, Import a circuit
		Check physics
Solving process context toolbars		Commands of Solving process context:
		Create a scenario, Solving process options
		Check the project
		Solve a scenario, Continue the solving process
		Delete results
Post-processing context toolbars*		Commands of Post-processing context:
		Create post-processing entities
		Curves
		Isovalues
		Arrows
		Compute quantities on points / predefined quantities
		Evaluate sensors

* only for a solved problem


Element	GUI	Function
Menus Toolbars for the View		Commands of the View menu:
		Refresh view, Zoom all, Zoom region
		Standard view 1, Standard view 2, X plane view, Y plane view, Z plane view, Opposite view, Four-view mode
		View direction, Save / Restore graphics properties
Display		Commands of the Display menu:
		Display geometric entities
		Display point numbers / line numbers
		Display mesh entities
		Display physical entities
		Display post-processing entities
Selection		Commands of the Select menu:
		No selection, Free selection
		Select geometric entities
		Select physical entities
		Select solving process entities


Element	GUI	Function
Data tree		Entities tree of the Flux project
Graphic		Geometric representation of the studied device and graphic results (isovalues, curves, arrows…)
Output		Informations concernant les différentes actions en cours (déroulement du programme) : restauration de données lors de l'ouverture d'un projet, commentaires sur les actions en cours, avancement des calculs lors d'une résolution, etc.
Commande PyFlux		Accès au nouvel éditeur python et à la mémoire des actions réalisées dans le projet

* These zones are masked by default.

To display these zones, see Modifying the environment.