Large trade shows such as ITEC are not only great occasions to meet show attendees and current users of our technologies, they are also important occasions for our field application engineers and technical staff to get together and share tips and tricks on the use of our products. With applications as rich and versatile as the Presagis suite of tools, there are always some lesser-known features that not all users know about but that are extremely useful.
This blog entry is the first of a series of articles that will highlight useful features across each of our products. If you would like to add to this list, or make suggestions for other products that I will be covering in future blogs, just drop me a note at blogs@presagis.com.
For this first article, I decided to kick things off with a list of Vega Prime features and tips that I think you will find useful:
If you open two ACF files independent of each other, copy/paste operations will not be available between the two copies of LynXPrime. To enable copy/paste, open a first ACF file, select File | New from the menu to start a second copy of LynX Prime and then open another ACF. You will now be able to copy instances back and forth.
At runtime, while the “S” key displays and cycles through the statistics screens, using Shift-“S” will move backwards through the stats to allow you to hide them quicker after displaying them.
Other useful runtime shortcut keys:
To finish this article, one last powerful runtime feature that is extremely useful is the scene graph viewer. This tool is activated by pressing the Tab key and shows a tree of all elements rendered in the scene. Positioning the mouse cursor over any of the nodes will trigger the drawing of a bounding box around that element in the scene, while pressing the middle-mouse button on a node will display that element's children. Finally, pressing the Ctrl-Alt keys on nodes that contain geometry will display a page with information about the state of these visual elements. The following screenshot shows an example, highlighting all of the terrain geometry.
I hope that you appreciated this first article. The next product in this series is VAPS XT.
