D3PLOT 22.1

SAVE/RETRIEVE Managing the Storage and Retrieval of Clipping Volumes on Disk

There is only ever one "current" clipping volume definition, but up to 100 such definitions can be stored in an external " volume.clip " file, and any number of such files may exist.

Volumes are model-independent and may be shared between dissimilar analyses

Storing and retrieving clipping volumes :

This figure shows the storage and retrieval sub-menu. The four commands in the left hand column manipulate volumes as follows:

STORE	Stores the current volume definition in the file.
GET	Reads a stored definition which overwrites the current one.
RENAME	Renames a stored definition.
DELETE	Deletes a stored definition.
FILE...	Lets you enter a new " volume.clip " filename: Any filename is permissable, but volume.clip is assumed, and the extension " .clip " is recommended (but not mandatory). Note that volume.clip files are binary, and are not normally transferrable between different machine types. Nor will you be able to read or edit them. However transfers between typical workstations (using IEEE format) will usually work OK.

Only GET affects the current definition, the other commands leave it unchanged.

All storage and retrieval operations take place using the current " volume.clip " file. If such a file has not been opened explicitly a file called volume.clip is opened automatically (and an empty file of this name is created if it doesn't already exist.)

You will note that volumes are stored with names as well as numbers. These are optional, but help when identifying which volumes does what. A maximum of 40 characters is permitted for each volume name.

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