5mm
| Genre: | METKGUI |
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| Authors: | Konrad Mühler |
| Short description: | Stand alone application to browse and manipulate a case and its objects. |
The METKExplorer is a stand alone application, that also can be included in a environmental METK-network. It has its own METKManager, so that it can load its own cases. Via an external connection, it can be connected to another METKManager.
With the METKExplorer, the opened case can be browsed using the built-in METKHierarchyBrowser and METKStructureGroupBrowser.
In the left part of the window, you can select an object whose parameter you want to view or change.
Changing the "`Case type"' only affects the recommended object names in the "`Hierarchy"' tab.
If you uncheck the "`Use internal ObjMgr"' flag, you can plug in an external METKManager. You must open the case with this METKManager and not with the METKExplorer.
You can choose between two types of object lists: a hierarchy browser and a structure group browser.
If you check "`Show all objects"' in the bottom part all objects (not only structures) are shown in the list.
If you check "`Generate IVFiles on start"' (default and recommended) the inventor files for all structures are created on startup if they don't exist.
Clicking the "`Delete objects without existing IV file"' button all structures, that have no existing inventor file are deleted. This can be helpful if for some structures no inventor file can be created (occur in some MeVis Distance Service cases)
In the "`Object location"' section you can delete the object or change its parent. Changes will also be propagated in the 
ChildIds info of the objects parents.
In the "`Vessel Generation"' section the standard inventor file can be regenerated using the convolution surfaces of Steffen Oeltze. Some parameter can be set and new convolution surfaces can be generated for all vessel objects in a case in one fell swoop.
The data of the selected object can be viewed in "`Description Info"' and "`Object attributes"' (both of type METKSingleObjInfo). The values in the "`Description Info"' part come from the Description layer of the object and can be edited by double clicking a value. New info values can be added using the button in the bottom right.
In the "`Visual Parameter"' tab some visual parameters like color and transparency can be changed. In the viewer the single object in its visualization style is shown. The values must be applied. The values marked with "`copy only"' are read only values, that can be copied to use it elsewhere. If the "`Mark non persistent"' flag is set, the applied values are marked as non persistent, i.e. they will not be saved in the case file. This flag must be set before any changes are applied!
The controls of the tab are provided by the METKObjBrowser.
Here you can see all visible objects together.
Ask Konrad for more information. He himself can't remember all features and tricks using this module.
The fields are only help fields for the user interface.
METKSingleObjInfo, METKHierarchyBrowser, METKStructureGroupBrowser, METKObjBrowser, METKGenerateVesselIV