D3PLOT 22.1

SAVE/RETRIEVE Managing the Storage and Retrieval of Cut Section Definitions on Disk

SAVE/RETRIEVE Managing the storage and retrieval of cut-section definitions on disk

There is only ever one "current" cutting-plane definition, but up to 100 such definitions can be stored in an external " section.cut " file, and any number of such files may exist.

Sections are model-independent and may be shared between dissimilar analyses.

Storing and retrieving cut-sections :

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

STORE Stores the current section 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 " section.cut " filename:
Any filename is permissible, but section.cut is assumed, and the extension " .cut " is recommended (but not mandatory).
Note that section.cut 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 " section.cut " file. If such a file has not been opened explicitly a file called section.cut is opened automatically (and an empty file of this name is created if it doesn't already exist.)

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


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