Surface Plotter - Menu Commands


Disabled Menus and Selections

Menus and selections that are not currently available are disabled and can not be selected. Surface Plotter checks the version of the Java Virtual Machine it is running on, and disables menus for functions that are not supported. For example: if the Java Virtual Machine is of version older than 1.1, or if Surface Plotter is running as an applet, Surface Plotter will disable the "print" menu.

File

  • Open ...
      Opens a Surface Plotter file. This menu is not available when running as an applet. (security restriction)
  • Save
      Saves a Surface Plotter file. This menu is not available when running as an applet. (security restriction)
  • Save As ...
      Saves a user specified Surface Plotter file. This menu is not available when running as an applet. (security restriction)
  • Surface from Local Image File ...
      Loads a local image file and creates a surface data from it. The image is automatically converted to gray scale image and is treated as a 2.5 dimension data file. Black is converted to the lowest z level and white is converted to the highest z level. Surface Plotter displays Image to Surface dialog box and lets you enter conversion parameters before actually doing the conversion. This menu is not available when running as an applet. (security restriction)
  • Surface from Network Image File ...
      Loads an image from network and creates a surface data from it. The image is automatically converted to gray scale image and is treated as a 2.5 dimension data file. Black is converted to the lowest z level and white is converted to the highest z level. Surface Plotter displays Image to Surface dialog box and lets you enter conversion parameters before actually doing the conversion.
  • Print ...
      Prints surface. This menu is not available when running as an applet (security restriction) or when the version of Java Virtual Machine is less than 1.1
  • Exit/Close
      Exits Surface Plotter (application) or closes the Surface Plotter frame (applet)

Edit

  • Stretch Z Levels ...
      Stretches Z levels of current surface data to new ranges. Surface Plotter displays Stretch Z dialog box and lets you specify the stretching method and parameters before actually doing the stretch.

Options

Menus that are in this group are all checkable menu items. You can change a menu state by selecting the menu item. The following describes a menu's function when it is checked:

  • Show Bounding Box
      Instructs Surface Plotter to draw a bounding box for surface plot.
  • Show X-Y Mesh
      Instructs Surface Plotter to draw the X-Y mesh of surface plot.
  • Show Face Grids
      Instructs Surface Plotter to draw face grids.
  • Scale Bounding Box
      Instructs Surface Plotter to scale bounding box to the proportion of variable ranges. Note that when one variable range is far greater than other variable ranges, Surface Plotter will not scale the bounding box.
  • Show X-Y ticks
      Instructs Surface Plotter to show the ticks of X and Y axes.
  • Show Z ticks
      Instructs Surface Plotter to show the ticks of Z axis.
  • Wireframe Mode
      Instructs Surface Plotter to show a surface as wireframe model.
  • Hidden Surface Elimination
      Instructs Surface Plotter to eliminate invisible portions of a surface, but not to shade the surface.
  • Color Spectrum Mode
      Instructs Surface Plotter to shade a surface with color function that moves from violet to red as the z level increases.
  • Gray Scale Mode
      Instructs Surface Plotter to shade a surface with color function that moves from black to white as the z level increases.
  • Dual Shades Mode
      Instructs Surface Plotter to shade surface of first function with yellow and surface of second function with blue. The intensity of the shading colors increase as the z level increases.
  • Surface Plot
      Instructs Surface Plotter to create surface plot of defined functions.
  • Contour Plot
      Instructs Surface Plotter to create contour plot of a function. Only one function can be plotted in this mode, and the first function has higher priority.
  • Density Plot
      Instructs Surface Plotter to create density plot of a function. Only one function can be plotted in this mode, and the first function has higher priority.

Help

  • Menu Commands
      Shows this menu commands help page.
  • Function Syntax Reference
      Shows function syntax reference page. Refer to this page if you had problems with function definition.
  • Parts of Surface Plotter
      Shows a help page that describes the parts of Surface Plotter.
  • Mouse Operations
      Shows a help page that describes mouse operations.
  • Surface Plotter Documentation
      Shows Surface Plotter classes documentation page.
  • System Information
      Shows information about the system on which Surface Plotter is running. Please select this menu and record all system information before submitting a bug report.
  • About
      Shows a dialog box that displays Surface Plotter version, author, and other information.

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