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Menu File

Some menu items are enabled only if JavaView runs as application. Usually this items require access to a local hard disk which is forbidden for applets.

New
New Project Open one of a selection of projects. Previous data is lost. Existing additional displays are closed.
Empty Geometry Create a new empty geometry like an element or point set inside the active display. You may e.g. set the vertices, elements etc. via menu Inspector-Object-Info. Previous data inside the display is lost.
Display AWT Open a new display window that contains exactly the same objects as the main display. Changes in one of the displays effects all open displays that contain the same objects.
Add
Project Add one of a selection of registered projects. Existing projects stay untouched. The active geometry as specified in menu Inspector-Display appoints the project that receives all user interaction. The project panel that is shown in menu Inspector-Project is also determined by the active geometry.
Empty Geometry Add a new empty geometry like an element or point set to the active display. You may e.g. set the vertices, elements etc. via menu Inspector-Object-Info.
Import
VGP Models Open one of the models of the JavaView model collection. A dialog opens that allows to choose various kinds of models to be opened. The opened model is added to the currently active display. All other geometries in the display stay untouched.
Browse Disk (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
Open a model that is located somewhere on your local hard disk(s) or other local media. The opened model is added to the currently active display, all existing data remain untouched. Possible import file formats are BYU, JVX, OBJ, OFF and BD. For further information see File-Export.
Deserialize (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
In development.
Export
Save the visible geometries of the active display into a file on disk in the specified file format. If run as standalone application a file dialog opens and the data is written directly to a file.
If run as an applet only ASCII based file formats are allowed. A text window opens that contains the text of the file that has then to be cut and paste into an editor and written to a file.
Caution: Such an ASCII based file may be very large if the geometries in the display contain much data (points, elements, normals, ...) depending on file format. So a text window may be a bit overburdened.
BYU

The Brigham Young University file format for 3D geometries.

FE Ken Brakke's Surface Evolver geometry file format for variation problems with boundary constraints. (partial implementation, scripting ignored, no parameters)

JVX

XML based format of JavaView.

MGS Mathematica graphics objects may be piped into JavaView or read from file. Use JavaView's add-on packages for Mathematica to save/load graphics in the MGS format from within Mathematica.
MPL Maple graphics objects may be piped into JavaView or read from file. Use JavaView's add-on packages for Maple to save/load graphics in the MPL format from within Maple.
OBJ Wavefront file format 3D geometry file format use in Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer™ and Sun's Java3D.
OFF Geometry Center's OFF file format.
VRML Virtual Reality Markup Language.
EPS Extended Postscript format.
PS Postscript format.
GIF (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
Graphics Interchange Format.
GIF Animation (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
If the active project has an animation write down every animation step as a single GIF image numbered in ascending order.
PPM (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
Portable Pixel Format. Raw and uncompressed data format.
PPM Animation (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
If the active project has an animation write down every animation step as a single PPM image numbered in ascending order.
Display Settings Save visual settings like camera position of active display in an extra file.
Serialize (Enabled only if run as standalone application)
In development.
Submit EG-Model Opens a form that allows one to easily create a submission file for the EG-Model server.
Close Closes the JavaView Control Panel.
Exit Closes all displays and Control Panel and ends the program. Only possible if run as application.
 

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