User Interface Description

Main Components

The work area of the interactive view is composed of the following areas:


	Left panel Provides three tabs: Tree tab. See The Tree. Experiment tab. See Experimenting with Controllers. Monitor tab. See About Monitored Outputs.
	Operation dialog box Appears when you: Click a command from the action bar or on a context toolbar to create an operation. Double-click an object to edit an operation. See The Operation Dialog Box.
	Action bar Displays commands divided in five sections: Fixed Area section: provides a set of default commands that are needed frequently. Also allows to: Access the app's Home page Open the graph view Construct section: provides commands to create wireframe geometries. Create section: provides commands to create surfaces and volumes. Operate section: provides commands to manipulate the topology. View section: provides commands to perform viewing operations.

Other Components

Progress Bar

A progress bar appears at the top of the work area during the computation of an operation.

For more information, see The Progress Bar.

Breadcrumb

When you select an element in the 3D area, a breadcrumb appears to allow you to select another element. After clicking a first element, you can either:

Select another element which is at the same selection point. To do so, you can click the down arrow to access in depth selection.

Select another element which is part of a collection.


Selection of a collection	Selection of a single element within a collection

Note: Whenever you select a single element to extract and use it as an input for an operation, an extraction node is created. The extraction node is linked to the right input in the operation node.