RE: [Update REQ 6930]: GeomView

[joe.michaud at lmco.com]

   From : Joe Michaud, Senior Engineer, Lockheed Martin
   To   : Ms. Tamara Munzner, Stanford Univ

   Thanks very much for help in my plotting problem :-)
   Your advice cleared it up immediately.
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> From: 	munzner at cs.stanford.edu[SMTP:munzner at cs.stanford.edu]
> Reply To: 	software@geom.umn.edu
> Sent: 	Tuesday, November 16, 1999 7:13 PM
> To: 	software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: 	[Update REQ 6930]: GeomView
> 
> From: Tamara Munzner <munzner at cs.stanford.edu>
> Message-ID: <14386.6378.97062.792667 at weevil.Stanford.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:54:34 -0800 (PST)
> To: software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: [ REQ 6930]: GeomView
> 
> 
> > First, thanks for providing Geomview to the computing world. I'm
> > using it for an engineering application that involves plotting currents
> > flows on 3-dimensional objects, the surface currents vary in space
> > and time.
> 
> Thanks for the positive feedback :)
> 
> > Your manual got me through and I am now plotting the time varying
> currents, 
> > however I am having a problem with my next step. The 3-d body is
> actually
> > in parts. I need to manipulate these parts seperately. If they are
> created
> > as seperate targets (by seperate external modules) they seem to not be 
> > spatial coincident (Origins not coincident). I see ways they might
> > be kept in time syncrony (In what order are multiple modules served?).
> 
> Try turning off normalization by hitting the keystrokes '0N' in the
> camera window, or by opening the Appearance panel and clicking on the
> "None" line of the Normalization control box. If that fixes things,
> then turn this on by default by putting the line
> 
>  (normalization allgeoms none)
> 
> in a file called ".geomview" in your home directory.
> 
> > Is there is a way to enter seperably manipulable Geometric Objects from
> a
> > single External Module?
> 
> Yes, that's also possible. When you load geometry you can
> give an explicit name to each object. For instance:
> 
> (geometry thing1 { QUAD 
> -1 -1 0 
> 1 -1 0
> 1 1 0
> -1 1 0
> })
> 
> (geometry thing2 {SPHERE 1 0 0 0})
> 
> It doesn't matter whether these geometry commands all come from a
> single external module or from different modules. This is a totally
> orthogonal issue to the normalization question. (Or it's possible I
> didn't fully understand your question.)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Tamara
> 
> assign: munzner
> 
> 
>