PRIMER 22.1

The Generic KEYWORD Editing Panel

The Generic KEYWORD Editing Panel

There are many places in PRIMER where an explicit create/edit panel is not necessary, and a generic "keyword editor" will suffice. The "Keyword editor" has the additional advantage that it lists all items of a particular type, allowing multiple edits to be carried out with a single command.

This is invoked by the KEYWORD tab, as shown here, from the standard options available once a selections has been made from the Keywords panel.


The Keyword Editor has been completely rewritten for PRIMER release 9.3 to improve its functionality and make it easier to use. In particular:

  • The separate Edit , Insert and Delete modes of the original version have been superseded, with all this functionality now available in a single operating mode.

  • The limitation that only a single keyword sub-type could be displayed at a time has gone: it is now possible to display entities of all sub-types of a master keyword together, combining any permutation of sub-keyword suffices.

  • Following from this it is now possible to insert, remove or change the sub-keyword suffices for the entities shown.

  • The display and functionality of the editor have both been improved, including sorting by column and "intelligent" editing of data fields over multiple entries.

The following examples use the *CONSTRAINED_JOINT keyword to illustrate the new editor. In this model there are a variety of different joint types, and the figure below shows _SPHERICAL , _REVOLUTE and _CYLINDRICAL types simultaneously.



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