Navigation: Tools Commands

 

Tools Commands

 

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The Tools menu offers the following commands:

 

Preferences

Displays the dialog that lets you set the options available in FRED.

Save Preferences To a File

Saves the currently defined preferences to a text file

Read Preferences From a File

Reads and applies the preferences defined in a text file to FRED.

User Defined Scripting Tools

Links to the specified scripts, which can then be run by selecting the corresponding button.

Run Embedded Script

> Links to embedded scripts, which can then be run by selecting the corresponding button.

Units and Scaling

Displays the dialog that scales an optical system and modifies the system units.

Edit/View GRIN Material Position/Orientation

Displays the dialog that scales an optical system and modifies the system units.

Identify Coincident Surfaces

Prints to the output window a list of potential coincident surfaces.

Reports...Document Summary

Displays in the output window a summary of all the items in the system.

Reports...Document Detail

Displays in the output window a detailed listing of all the items in the system.

Reports...Entity Position/Orientation Coordinates

Displays in the output window coordinates of all entities in selected coordinate system.

Reports... Entity Coordinate Transformation

Displays in the output window the Global Transformation Matrix and Transformation Primitives (i.e. position/orientation operations) for the currently selected entities in the object tree.

Reports... Entity Counts

Displays in the output window a listing of entity counts by entity type.

Reports... Entity References

Displays in the output window a listing of entities referenced by/from the selected entity.

Reports...Ray by Ray Summary

Displays in the output window a summary of all the rays in the ray buffer.

Reports...Ray Detail (for one ray)

Displays in the output window a detailed report of a specified ray from the ray buffer.

Reports...Table of Ray Errors

Displays in the output window a table of errors and warnings related to the rays in the buffer following the most recent trace.

Reports...Raytrace Paths

Displays a spreadsheet containing all raytrace paths.

Reports...Stray Light Report

Displays a customizable stray light report documenting specular and scatter paths.

BSDF Data Fitting... Binomial/Polynomial Data Fitting

Opens a dialog for fitting BSDF data to Polynomial/Binomial scatter models.

BSDF Data Fitting... Harvey/ABg Data Fitting

Opens a dialog for fitting BSDF data to Harvey/ABg scatter models.

Open Plot File in 3D Chart

Opens any existing plot file.

Determine Scatter Importance Sampling

Automatically determines Importance Sampling for specified components.

Analyze Scatter Importance Sampling

Evaluates efficiency of Importance Sampling assignments.

Force Immediate Document Update

Forces an immediate update of your FRED document.

Edit/View Pre/Post Update Script

Edits a Pre/Post-Update script.

Pre-Update Script Status (active if checked)

Sets status of Pre-Update script.

Post-Update Script Status (active if checked)

Sets status of Post-Update script.

Edit/View Global Script Variables

Displays a dialog box containing Global Script Variable assignments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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