Latest revision as of 10:34, 21 July 2015

This page describes the menu of Polaris Viewer. Each section corresponds to an item in the main menu.

File

File menu
Menu item	Action/effect
New Project	Clear all existing settings and start a fresh empty project
Open Project	Open an existing project file
Recent Project	Shows four recently created or modified projects, click to open one
Save	Save the current project
Save As	Save the current project to a different project name
Save Data	Save the current data object itself to disk
Save Screenshot	Save the snapshot of the current view into an image file
Save Animation	Save the current view into a time-series images or a video file
Clear All	Delete all data objects in the "Pipeline Browser". Doesn't affect files on disk.
New Window	Fires another Polaris Viewer window.
License	View or change license settings and information
Exit	Quit Polaris Viewer

Setup menu
Menu item	Action/effect
Definitions	Dialog to define vectors and movements for subsequent references/uses
Case Setup	Dialog to define most of the parameters for Polaris CFD simulation
Create	Create a geometry or text object directly
Derived	Create a geometry from a existing geometry object
Import Geometry	Import a geometry object from a file
Import Recent	Show four recently imported geometries and import one
Create a Job	Create a simulation job
Monitor a Job	Submit and monitor a job

PostProcessing menu
Menu item	Action/effect
Load Results	Open a result file
Load Recent	Shows four recently loaded result files and load one
Save State	Save the current postprocessing state into a file
Load State	Open a previously saved state file
Reload State	Clear window and reopen the current postprocessing state to reload all data files
Export Data	Saves the current spreadsheet into a .csv file
Data Analysis	Several functions to analysis the data, details elsewhere.

Edit menu
Menu item	Action/effect
Undo	Undo previous operation
Redo	Redo previous operation
Settings	Adjust default settings of the Polaris Viewer
View Settings	Adjust view settings

Set the visibility of several dockable panels and toolbars.

Various postprocessing functions that will be described elsewhere.

Edit menu
Tools item	Action/effect
Python Shell	Bring up the python shell for entering commands
Start Trace	Start to record the operations
Stop Trace	Stop recording, save macros (python script) into a file

Edit or execute a macro file

Shows the general legal information of Polaris CFD software.

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 =Tools=
+{| border="1" | style="margin: 0 auto;"
+|+ Edit menu
+! scope="col" | Tools item
+! scope="col" | Action/effect
+|-
+| Python Shell || Bring up the python shell for entering commands
+|-
+| Start Trace || Start to record the operations
+|-
+| Stop Trace || Stop recording, save macros (python script) into a file
+|}
 =Macros=