Visual guide for navigating the SimSolid user
interface.
Main Menu Toolbar - The main menu
is used to access the most commonly used tools.
Project Tree - The Project Tree is used to
manage individual model entities.The main branches of the Project Tree are called workbenches. Each design study
will have one Assembly workbench and one Connections workbench with definitions that apply to all
design study analyses. A design study can have any number of analyses.
Workbench toolbar - Each
workbench has a corresponding vertical workbench toolbar. Select a workbench
in the Project Tree to display the corresponding
workbench toolbar.
Modeling Window - The modeling window displays the project geometry and gives
you another method for manipulating entities. A list of mouse controls
available in the modeling window can be found in the
Mouse Controls section.
Bookmark Browser - The Bookmark
Browser is a convenient way to record your simulation modeling and results
images. You can associate captions with images and export the entire gallery
as image or animation files. If you click on a thumbnail in the browser
area, you can return the modeling window to the
state recorded in the thumbnail.
Legend - The Legend displays
contour plot data for a chosen analysis result. After running an alaysis,
you can select the results to display from the Analysis Workbench toolbar.
Main Menu Layout
Figure 1 Shows a labeled
map of the tools on the main menu.Figure 1.
Workbench Toolbars Layout
Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 4 show labeled maps
of the tools on the workbench toolbars. The toolbar displayed is based on the
currently selected workbench in the Project Tree.
