The method menu is filled by the active geometry and therefore depends on its geometry type. Please note, that the active geometry is set in Inspector-Display, or by ctrl-tab mechanism, or by ctrl-right mouse.

Here is a list of frequent geometry classes and their menus. Note, that the menus are inherited by subclasses.

	Menu Method of Point Sets
	Menu Method of Element Sets
	Menu Method of Polygons

Allows to apply several geometric and non-geometric operations on the current object.

Info

These methods print debug information to the JavaView console window which is opened by Ctrl-d or F3 or by invoking menu Window->Console or via the popup-menu in the display.

	Update Sends an update event to all geometries so they should be re-calculated. Should never be necessary.
	Print All Prints all geometry information of all geometries in active display to the  JavaView debug console.
	Print Center Prints the coordinates of the center to the JavaView debug console.
	Print BndBox Prints the coordinates and dimensions of the bounding box of this geometry.

Show

	Show Title Showing the name of the geometry in the display gets switched on and off.
	Enable Default Labels If vertex labels are shown, this switches the labels to the names or numbers of the vertices (and elements, if the geometry is an ElementSet).

	Show Vertex Labels If the vertices of the geometry are shown, the labels of  vertices get turned to be visible or invisible in the display .
	Show Marked Vertices Switches highlighting of marked vertices on and off.
	Show Arrow of Vertex Normals If the point set has vertex normals and the normals are shown, this switch turns the straight lines to small arrows and back.

Show Arrow of Vectors If the point set has a vector field assigned to its vertices and the vector field is shown this switch turns the straight lines to small arrows and back.

Mark

	Mark Vertices(m) Switch display to mark vertices mode. Click vertices or drag a rectangle to mark all vertices inside.
	Mark all Vertices All vertices of the currently activated  geometry get selected.
	Unmark Vertices(u) Switch the display to unmark vertices mode. Click vertices or drag a rectangle to unmark all vertices inside.
	Unmark all Vertices All vertices of the currently activated geometry get deselected.

Delete

	Remove Marked Vertices All marked vertices of the currently activated geometry get removed.
	Remove Vertex Normals The vertex normals of the currently activated geometry get deleted.
	Remove All Vector Fields All vector fields that has been assigned to this point set (except the normal vector field) are deleted.
	Remove Texture The texture coordinates and texture image get removed from the active geometry.

Color

	Show Global Vertex Color Switches the colors of vertices to global vertex color or individual colors.
	Make Vertex Color from XYZ Generates individual vertex  colors from 3D coordinates by RGB.
	Make Vertex Color from Z Generates individual vertex colors from z coordinates by RGB.
	Make Vertex Color from Z Hue Generates individual vertex colors from z coordinates by Hue.
	Make Vertex Color from Vector Length Generates individual vertex colors from vector length of a vector field assigned to the current geometry.

Texture

	Make Vertex Texture from XY Generates new vertex texture coordinates by projection to the X-Y-plane.
	Make Vertex Texture from XZ Generates new vertex texture coordinates by projection to the X-Z-plane.
	Make Vertex Texture from YZ Generates new vertex texture coordinates by projection to the Y-Z-plane.
	Make Vertex Texture from Cylinder Generates new vertex texture coordinates by projection to a cylinder.
	Make Vertex Texture from Sphere Generates new vertex texture coordinates by projection a sphere .

Modeling

	Increment Vertex Dimension The dimension of the vertices gets incremented by 1, the additional coordinates are set to 0.
	Decrement Vertex Dimension The dimension of the vertices gets decremented by 1, the last coordinates of all vertices get lost. This is not reversible!

	Move To Origin Translates all vertex coordinates such that the new center of the bounding box is the origin of the coordinate space.
	Project To Sphere(1) Projects all vertices to unit sphere by central projection.
	Flip Orientation Multiplies all vertex normals by -1.

Effect

Evolve Moves all vertices into directions of  normals or other vector fields.

See also Method Menu of Point Sets.

Info

	Print Edge List Prints all edges as pairs of vertex indices and the indices of adjacent elements to the JavaView debug console.
	Print Boundary Prints all boundary polygons with information about boundary vertices and elements to the JavaView debug console.
	Compute Area The area of all elements are added and printed to the JavaView debug console.
	Compute Volume Computes the enclosed volume of this element set and prints it to the JavaView debug console.
	Compute L2 Norm The L2 norm of this element set to JavaView debug console.

Show

	Show Element Labels If the elements of the geometry are shown, the labels of  elements get turned to be visible or invisible in the display .
	Show Marked Elements Switches highlighting of marked elements on and off.
	Show Arrow of Element Normals If the ElementSet has element normals and the normals are shown, this switch turns the straight lines to small arrows and back.

Show Backside Switches backside of elements to be visible or invisible.

Mark

	Mark Elements Switch display to mark elements mode. Click elements to mark.
	Mark all Elements All elements of the currently activated  geometry get selected.
	Unmark Elements Switch the display to unmark elements mode. Click elements to unmark.
	Unmark all Elements All Elements of the currently activated geometry get deselected.

Delete

	Remove Unused Vertices All vertices that do not form an element (together with other vertices) are deleted from the geometry. Vertex indices may change.
	Remove Marked Elementss All marked elements of the currently activated geometry get removed.
	Remove Element Normals The element  normals of the currently activated geometry get deleted.
	Remove Degenerated Elements All elements with less than three vertices and  elements with too much identical vertices get removed.

Color

Show Global Element Color Switches the colors of elements to global element color or individual colors.

	Show Global Element Back Color Switches the back colors of elements to global element back color or individual colors.
	Element Back Color = Front Color Switches between showing own backside colors and showing back sides in front side colors.
	Make Element Color from XYZ Generates individual element colors from 3D coordinates by RGB.
	Make Element Color from Z Generates individual element colors from z coordinates by RGB.
	Make Element Color from Z Hue Generates individual element colors from z coordinates by Hue.
	Make Color from Gauss Curvature Generates individual element and vertex colors from discrete gauss curvature.

Modeling

	Make Vertex Normals Assigns every vertex a normal vector that is the weighted mean of the element normals.
	Make Element Normals Assigns every element a normal vector that is normal to the elements plane.
	Make Neighbour Computes the information which elements are neighbouring. Two elements are neighbours if they have a common edge.
	Triangulate Makes a triangulation out of arbitrary element sets by splitting polygons into triangles.
	Flip Edges Iterates over all edges and flips an edge whenever the triangle angles become smaller.

	Reset Boundary Normals The Normals of vertices at the boundary of the ElementSet get set to zero length.
	Close Boundaries If two boundaries coincident then both boundaries are removed and the connectivity is connected along the former boundaries.
	Constrain Boundaries If the boundaries have constrains assigned (in general they haven't any) all boundaries are assured to match this constrains.
	Identify Vertices Identify vertices with identical coordinates or vertices within an epsilon-box of each other.

Make Orientation Try to turn all elements to the same orientation as all their neighbour elements

Effect

	Compute Geodesics Compute the shortest or straightest polygon connecting two points upon the surface upon the elements.
	Clip at Function All elements get cut by a level function to be typed in; just the element parts at one side of the level function are shown, parts at the other side get deleted.

	Unfold Geometry The angles between neighbouring elements get bent to Pi, so all elements will lay within one plane; some elements neighborhoods get broken to hold the shape of the elements.
	Generate Thick Edges Generates Tubes around all edges of the geometry.
	Stellate/Shrink/Truncate/Punch Invokes a dialog for some elemental modeling tools.
	Simplification The number of elements gets reduced by an edge-collapsing algorithm.
	Refinement Invokes a dialog for some element set refinement algorithms.
	Explode Animation of the current geometry blown up.
	Explode Group of Geometries Moves all geometries in the display along straight lines away from a common center point.

Vector Field

	Create/Modify Vector Field Creates or modifies vertex based or element based vector fields by adding different singularities.
	Visualize Vector Field Visualizes a vector field attached to the geometry by integral lines or Line Integral Convolution.
	Hodge Splitting of Vector Field Decomposes a vector field attached to the geometry to a rotation free, a divergence free and an harmonic vector field.

Games

	Game of Life Play the cellular automata "game of life" upon arbitrary surfaces.
	Minesweeper Play the "Minesweeper" game upon arbitrary surfaces.

See also Method Menu of Point Sets.

Info

Length Prints Euclidian length of the active polygon to the JavaView debug console.

Show

	Show Edge Labels Switches the labels of edges on and of in the display.
	Show Polygon Start Arrow Shows an arrow at the start of the first edge of the polygon.
	Show Polygon End Arrow Shows an arrow at the end of the last edge of the polygon.

Modeling

	Close If the polygon is not closed yet this method adds the starting point to the end of the vertex list.
	Make Vertex Normals Assigns vertex normals to the polygon.
	Make Vertex Binormals Computes vertex normals orthogonal to both adjacent edges.
	Make Vertex Offset Normals Computes normals at vertices as edge bisectors whose tip lies on an offset = 1 curve.
	Make Vertex Curvature Normals Computes normals at vertices as edge bisectors with length equal to (Pi - angle of  vertex).

Effect

	Triangulate Generates a new PgElementSet by the triangulation of the polygon.
	Get Tube Generates a tube around the edges of the polygon.
	Refine/Coarsen Polygon Invokes a dialog to refine or coarsen the resolution of the polygon.