Position & Direction

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• Figure 1 – Position Dialog

Position Dialog:

This dialog is used by the following interfaces: ElGen, ElEdit, Guide, BlockM, BMesh, Mesh, SphGen, and Vector Operation.

• Global – Use global coordinate system
• Local – Use local coordinate system

• Px: Enter X coordinate of point
• Py: Enter Y coordinate of point
• Pz: Enter Z coordinate of point

• Position – Pick position
• Node – Pick node
• C_Element – Get center of picking element
• C_Edge – Get center edge
• Avg_cen – Get averaged center of selected nodes or elements
• 3Ptcircle – Get center of selected nodes or elements

• NID: Input node ID

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• Figure 2 – Direction Dialog

Direction Dialog:

This dialog is used by the following interfaces: ElGen, Project, Accels, BinderW, Guide, BlockM, BMesh, Curves, Mesh, SphGen, and Vector Operation.

Coord

 Popup dialog to select local coordinate system by ID (or key in)

Position1

 Call Position Dialog (see Figure 1)

• X: Enter X coordinate of base point
• Y: Enter Y coordinate of base point
• Z: Enter Z coordinate of base point

X

 Set X component of the normal direction to 1

Y

 Set Y component of the normal direction to 1

Z

 Set Z component of the normal direction to 1

Position2

 Call Position Dialog (see Figure 1)

• X: Enter X coordinate of head point
• Y: Enter Y coordinate of head point
• Z: Enter Z coordinate of head point

• 2Position – Pick position
• 2Nodes – Pick nodes
• Edge – Pick edge
• El_normal – Get normal of picking element
• ROTATE – Rotate direction

Clear

 Clear current vector

Reverse

 Reverse direction

• Title: Input vector title
• VectorID: Enter vector ID

CreateVector

 Create new vector

Done

 Accept new direction

Cancel

 Exit dialog