Hi Simscale staff,
I have some notes about using Simscale. You can see them either as questions or suggestions for improvements. Please excuse me if these proposals repeat other ones.
Is it possible to rename the objects from the scene tree to their native CAD names (for example - plate, profile, etc.)?
Can you introduce “zoom window” like in the CAD programs?
How do I add/remove entity to/from the selection set?
Is it possible the projects in Dashboard to be grouped in folders and/or to be filtered by various criteria - field of application, type of analysis, mesh type, etc?
great suggestions! None of the four features is available right now in production, but some of them are on the short term roadmap (e.g. a more powerful selection set management including removing and adding entities once created). To make sure I understood you right:
“Zoom window” - You mean using a rubberband mechanism to draw a rectangle in the viewer and then the window zooms to this rectangle? (In the meantime: Best for zooming is keeping the right mouse click pressed and then moving the mouse up and down)
Grouping / Filtering: The filtering is being worked on as this will be also very important for all the public projects. Regarding folders: Here the SimScale community seems to be of different opinion - some like folders, others are fine with a faster searching and filtering to find the relevant project. What would be your main use case for folders?
Exactly! Now I use the current method (“… keeping the right mouse click pressed and then moving the mouse up and down”), but it works very slowly.
I also prefer fast and advanced search and filtering. If there are folders, I will use them for systematizing and finding projects fast. I would use the following structure:
excellent - thanks for elaborating, got it! I’ll soon open up a thread for a discussion of folders for project asset management. I’ll post it here then.
