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0. USING THIS TUTORIAL GUIDE 0.1 What's in This Guide This guide contains step-

0. USING THIS TUTORIAL GUIDE 0.1 What's in This Guide This guide contains step-by-step examples that teach you how to use GAMBIT to create and mesh various geometries. Each example illustrates at least one new concept with respect to GAMBIT geometry creation and mesh generation. Tutorial 1 includes explicit instructions for all steps in the geometry creation, mesh generation, and examination of a completed mesh. Its purpose is to introduce the beginning user to several basic features and operations that are available in GAMBIT. The remaining tutorials are designed for the user who has read or worked through Tutorial 1 or who is already familiar with GAMBIT. Consequently, they are not as explicit in their instructions as is Tutorial 1. Tutorial 5 illustrates how to import geometry into GAMBIT from an existing file. The file that contains the geometry to be imported is located in the directory where GAMBIT is installed. (This file is included on your installation tape or CD.) 0.2 How to Use This Guide If you are new to GAMBIT, you should first work through Tutorial 1 in order to familiarize yourself with the GAMBIT graphical user interface (GUI) and with basic geometry creation and meshing procedures. You may then want to try a tutorial that demonstrates features that you are going to use in your application. For example, if you are planning to start from an existing geometry that requires some cleanup, you should look at Tutorial 5. Each tutorial demonstrates different GAMBIT features, so it is recommended that you do each tutorial in order to get the full benefit from this Tutorial Guide. Note that Step 1 in Tutorials 2 through 6 requires you to select the solver to be used for the CFD calculation. In many cases, you could select a different solver than the one used in the tutorial. The solver selection is included in the tutorials to demonstrate the process of selecting a solver. It also illustrates that the choice of solver dictates the options available in various forms (for example, the boundary types available in the Specify Boundary Types form). 0.3 Font Conventions The following font conventions are used throughout this manual to represent user input data, the titles of forms and command buttons, options, and the names of modeling objects. Font Description Example(s) Courier Command line arguments, file names, and other user input from the keyboard volume create sphere GAMBIT.ini Arial Narrow, Bold Titles of buttons, selectors, fields, and forms as they appear in the graphical user interface Model Volume Vertex Arial Narrow Titles of options and commands Interval size Lower topology Arial Narrow, Italic Names of GAMBIT topological entities and coordinate systems edge.1 vertex.3 0.4 Using the Mouse The GAMBIT GUI is designed for use with a three-button mouse. The function associated with each mouse button varies according to whether the mouse is operating on menus and forms, or in the graphics window. Some graphics-window mouse operations involve keyboard keys in conjunction with the mouse. 0.4.1 Menus and Forms Mouse operations for GAMBIT menus and forms require only the left and right mouse buttons and do not involve any keyboard key operations. Most of the mouse operations performed on GAMBIT GUI menus and forms require only the left mouse button. The right mouse button is used to open menus related to command buttons on the toolpads. On some forms that include a text window, the right mouse button opens a hidden menu of options such as that described in "Using a Pick List Form" in Section 3.2.8 of the GAMBIT User's Guide. 0.4.2 Graphics Window There are three general types of GAMBIT GUI graphics-window mouse operations: • Display • Task • Vertex creation Display operations allow you to directly manipulate the appearance of the model in any of the enabled graphics-window quadrants. Task operations allow you to specify topological entities and to execute geometry and meshing operations. The vertex creation operation allows you to create vertices on any displayed coordinate-system grid. (For further information on these operations, see Section 3.3.2 of the GAMBIT User's Guide.) Display Operations GAMBIT graphics-window display operations employ all three mouse buttons as well as the Ctrl keyboard key. Keyboard Key/ Mouse Button Mouse Motion Description Left-click Left-drag the cursor in any direction. Rotates the model Middle-click Middle-drag the cursor in any direction. Translates the model Right-click Right-drag the cursor vertically. Zooms the model in or out Right-click Right-drag the cursor horizontally. Rotates the view of the model about the center of the graphics window Ctrl-left-click Left-drag the cursor diagonally. Enlarges the model, retaining the model proportions. When you release the mouse button, GAMBIT enlarges the display Double-middle-click Displays the model as shown immediately before the current view Task Operations GAMBIT graphics window task operations employ all three mouse buttons in conjunction with the Shift key to allow you to pick entities and to execute actions related to GAMBIT forms. There are two types of task operations: • Picking entities • Executing actions Picking Entities Many GAMBIT modeling and meshing operations require you to specify one or more entities to which the operation applies. There are two ways to specify an entity for a GAMBIT operation: • Input the entity name in the appropriate list box on the specification form or select it from the appropriate pick list. • Use the mouse to "pick" the entity from the model as displayed in the graphics window. When you use the mouse to pick an entity from the model that is displayed in the graphics window, GAMBIT inserts the entity name in the currently-active pick list as if you had specified its name on the currently-open specification form. There are two different types of GAMBIT entity-picking operations, each of which involves the Shift key. Throughout the Tutorial Guide, you will see expressions such as Shift-left-click; this indicates that you should press and hold the Shift key while clicking the left mouse button. The two entity picking operations are as follows: Operation Description Shift-left-click Highlights the entity in the graphics window and includes it in the currently active pick list. Shift-middle- click Toggles between adjoining multiple entities of a given type. To select a group of objects, Shift-left-drag a box around the objects. The box does not have to completely enclose the objects; it only needs to be enclosing parts of them. Executing Actions When you Shift-right-click the mouse in the graphics window, GAMBIT accepts the selection of an entity and moves the focus to the next pick list in the form. If the current pick list is the last one in the form, Shift-right-click executes the operation associated with the currently open form. In this case, the Shift-right-click operation is equivalent to the act of clicking Apply on the bottom of the form. 0.5 GUI Components GAMBIT allows you to construct and mesh models by means of its graphical user interface (GUI), which is designed to be mouse-driven. The GAMBIT GUI (Figure 0-1) consists of eight components, each of which serves a separate purpose with respect to the creating and meshing of a model. The following sections briefly describe the GUI components. Figure 0-1: The GAMBIT GUI 0.5.1 Graphics Window The graphics window is the region of the GUI in which the model is displayed. It is located in the upper left portion of the GUI and occupies most of the screen in the default layout. Chapter 3 of the GAMBIT User's Guide presents a more detailed description of the graphics window. 0.5.2 Main Menu Bar The main menu bar is located at the top of the GUI, directly above the graphics window. It contains four menu items. Each of the items is associated with its own menu of commands that allow you to perform various GAMBIT operations. To open the menu associated with any item, left-click the item name (for example, File). Chapter 4 of the GAMBIT User's Guide presents detailed descriptions of the menu items, as well as the commands available on each associated menu. 0.5.3 Operation Toolpad The Operation toolpad is located in the upper right portion of the GUI. It consists of a field of command buttons, each of which performs a specific function associated with the process of creating and meshing a model. Within the Operation toolpad, command buttons are grouped according to their hierarchy and purpose in the overall scheme of creating and meshing the model. The topmost group constitutes the main pad. All other command button groups constitute subpads. Subpads When you click a main-pad command button, GAMBIT opens an associated subpad. For example, if you click the GEOMETRY command button on the main pad, GAMBIT opens the Geometry subpad. Each subpad contains command buttons that perform operations related to the overall purpose of the subpad. For example, the Geometry subpad contains command buttons that allow you to perform operations related to the creation and refinement of model geometry. Some of the command buttons located on subpads open related subpads of their own. 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