Tree Menu

This is the main menu, in a tree structure. It allows to manage each element of the 3D scene when one submenu in the tree is selected. Some dedicated functions will appear on the panel at the bottom of the screen. Home is the main menu of the tree. When no project is loaded yet, it is composed by four secondary menus: Camera, Orientation Tools, Axes, and Graphic Objects. The ERT Data menus will appear when a project is loaded or created. These menus expose further submenus with a lot of dedicated tools. This manual will be described them in detail. To easily understand how the properties described below modify the scene, a cube has been placed created (Figure 15). Again, the inserting mode of items and their setting will be discussed later.

_images/fig_ez4aum.png — Figure 15 A cube in the scene

Clicking on Home node, two panels will appear at the bottom of the screen, Scene and Settings:

Scene

It manages the Rototranslation parameters of the entire 3D project. The related panel is shown in Figure 16.

_images/fig_kzdmk8.png — Figure 16 Scene Panel

It has the following items:

Visible: It makes the whole scene visible if checked otherwise not.
Rototranslation Table: To apply to all the objects a transformation operation (see Rototranslation)

Settings

_images/fig_x12sdn.png — Figure 17 Setting Panel

The Setting panel (Figure 17) contains general information about the software, the version currently installed, a button to check for updates. If “Automatically check for Updates” is selected, ERTLab Studio / ViewLab3D will verify the availability of any updates every time the software is started. The Languages currently available are English, Italian, French, Spanish, German and Russian. In the lower part of the panel a text box shows the various Log information. The same information are available as text files in the subfolder “Log”, which is located in the installation path.

The Home menu is composed of 5 submenus: Camera, Orientation Tools, Axes, Graphic Objects, and ERT Data project, if loaded. Each submenu has some dedicated tool and further items will be added if the Advanced Licence is active.