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
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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