KB Input and Accelerator

KB Input

KB Input when View windows are active.

F8 Positional data input

When Locate Operation is requested, pressing F8 key enables coordinate values input from KB, and the following dialogue is shown.

Previous Point
The last input coordinate values(Previous Point) are displayed. When no positional data is input, these values are not shown.
WCS Absolute/WCS Relative
To input world coordinate values, mark WCS Absolute. Input world coordinate absolute values from the edit box of the dialogue box, like 1,2,3.
To input relative coordinate values from the previous input data, mark WCS Relative.
Limit Distance/Limit Angle(degree)
With Distance Limit marked, numbers like 50 is input and press OK button, then the mouse cursor movement is limitted to positions whose diatance is 50 from the previous input position.
About the angle limit(degree), the situation is the same regarding to the angle. E.g. input 30, then the mouse cursor is limitted to points on the straight line as below. Actually the straight line below is not displayed.
CPlane Absolute/CPlane Relative/CPlane Polar (deg)
CPlane absolute coordinates are similar to abolute world coorndinate system. The difference is that CPlane's coordinate values are the ones of CPlane's. CPlane's relative coordinates are similar to relative world coordinate system. The difference is that CPlane's coordinate values are the ones of CPlane's.
In CPlane Polar(deg) mode, coordinate values are input in polar coordinate system. The origin and the start line of the system are the origin and X-axis of the current CPlane.

Short Cut Key

Short Cut Keys and the corresponding menu items are as follow when view windows are displayed,

File

New

Ctrl+N

File

Openc

Ctrl+O

File

Save

Ctrl+S

File

Print

Ctrl+P

Edit

Undo

Ctrl+Z

Edit

Redo

Ctrl+Y

Edit

Delete

Del

Edit

Select – Select All

Ctrl+A

Edit

Select – Cancel

Esc

Edit

View – Hide

Ctrl+H

Edit

View – Show

Ctrl+Alt+H

Edit

View – Show Selection

Ctrl+Shift+H

Edit

Join

Ctrl+J

Edit

Propertiesc

F3

View

Zoom – Window

Ctrl+W

View

Zoom – Extent All

Ctrl+Shift+E

View

CPlane – Default

Home

Analysis

Surface – Parameter Space - Tessellation

Ctrl+Q

Analysis

Verify Model – Dump Object

Ctrl+B

Window

Close All

Ctrl+Shift+W

Arrows, +, -, Shift+Arrows, Ctrl+KB
The camera position can be updated using KB.
Arrow keys
With Arrow keys down, the camera is translated parallel to the view. With both Ctrl key and arrows keys down, the quantity of the tranlation is amplified. With both shift key and arrows keys down, rotation is performed. When ctrl key down is added, the quantity of the rotaition is amplified.

Pictures are translated upwards

Pictures are translated downwards
Pictures are translated leftwards
Pictures are translated rightwards
Shift + Upward rotationis performed
Shift + Downward rotationis performed
Shift + Leftward rotation is performed
Shift + Rightword rotation is performe
+, - key
+, - key of numeric key pad. +, - key of numeric key pad are used for zooming. With Ctrl key down, the zoom quantity is amplified.