Cell Controls

With Show cells toggled "on", click on the Cell controls... option in the ViewGen Edit menu to access the Cell Controls window.

This is the principal dialog box which controls the display of cells. The Cell Columns/Rows/Layers list boxes, the Property filter box  and the Inactive only toggle control which cells are selected for display.  The Cell outline selection and the Fill cells toggle control how they are displayed. The operation of these items are described below:

The active Cell property is selected by the Cell Properties menu.
Cell colours are controlled by the Cell Colourmap editor.

The Cells Columns/Rows/Layers list boxes

The Cell Columns, Rows and Layers lists allow mouse-driven selection of which cells to display, by their position in the model.  By default, all the cells are selected (shown in the Column, Row and Layer lists by a black background).   Moving the scroll bar to the right of each list allows movement through the entire list.

To change the set of cells that are displayed:

Clicking on the All / None button selects/deselects the entire list

Clicking with <MB1> on a single Row/Column/Layer selects a single item only from the each of the lists.

Clicking with <MB1> on a single Row/Column/Layers, and then holding down shift and clicking on another Row/Column selects all Rows / Columns / Layers in that range.

Holding down the Contrlol key and clicking with <MB1> selects /  deselects additional items from the lists.

Then click on OK or Apply to update the displayed cells in ViewGen.

Property filter

The cell Property filter selects the cells to display by value.  By default, the range is set to include all cells between the minimum and the maximum  value of the cells (i.e. all cells).  The range may be restricted to show only certain cells, and then the Inclusive toggle button becomes active.  By default it is set as inclusive, all cells within the range are displayed. If toggled off, the range is exclusive,  only cells outside the range will be displayed

Clicking on the Reset button, resets the range to the minimum and maximum values of the data.

To operate the filter:

Type the minimum and maximum values into the white data entry boxes.

Set the Inclusive toggle button if appropriate

Then press OK or Apply.

Cell views box

The three toggle buttons operate as follows:

Fence type

Fill cells toggles between filling the cells with colour (default) or showing them as an outline wireframe.  

Inactive only toggles between showing the active cells (default) or those which have been inactivated.

Select the mode, then press OK or Apply to update the displayed cells in ViewGen.

Cell Outline box

Cell outlines are added in black to filled cells.  The outlines are not drawn when the model is drawn in wireframe mode (not filled).

The four radio buttons operate as follows:

Both outlines both the upper faces and side faces of cells.  

Just tops outlines the upper faces of cells

Just sides outlines the side faces of cells

Neither switches off the black outline

Select the mode, then press OK or Apply