Home & Options Tabs Basics

The Home and Options tabs have several important function s which allow you to customize the behavior of Earth Volumetric Studio as a user and/or for a specific project. These options are shown below.

 

There are many important options. Most are quite obvious, but a few may not be and they are worth understanding:

• Home Tab

  • Clipboard: Primarily for copying and pasting modules

  • Application Properties

    • Z Scale: Set global vertical exaggeration in the application
    • Explode: Set global explode distance in the application
    • Origin: View or reset the Application Origin which is approximately the centroid of your data and is used to maintain the highest precision.
    • Output Quality: Options are Highest Quality or Fasteest Output. This causes switching in Read EVS Field so this has no effect if you don't create different version of your model.
    • Viewer and Application Snapshots provide a quick way to create an image of your application or results
    • See: Application Colors for details on how to make your applications more flexible by using linked Application Colors.

  • Application Information: Enter Project specific information to be saved with the application

  • Scripting: Create, Open or run Python Scripts

  • Animation: Open or create 4DIM or Bitmap animations

  • Help

    • Contents (access to all help)

    • Module Help (help for the selected module)

  

   

• Options Tab

  • Layout

    • Presentation switches between normal and Presentation mode.

    • Windows Layout: Allows you to load saved layouts of your EVS sub windows

    • Theme: provides the choice of Light (as shown in the above images) or Dark. For an example of Dark Theme, see the last image at: Application Colors

  • Connections

    • Connections to Show

      • Major Ports Only: 

      • Include Minor Ports: Shows all port connections

      • None

    • Connection Checking: in general we will not allow you to make completely inappropriate connections. Port connections are restricted to be ports of similar type (color). However, many output ports have content that is dependent on the type of data passed to the module and/or the options selected in the module. For example, many modules can work with lines, points and volumes. Others can only process volumetric data. Prior to a module's running, we cannot know the content of its output, and therefore we cannot know precisely which ports should be connected, and which ones should not.

      • Strict Checking: will not allow any connections that are not definitely appropriate. This means that many connections cannot be made until a module is run.
      • Basic Checking: relaxes the rules of strict checking, but still prevents most inappropriate actions.
      • Allow Unsafe Connections: allows you to make any connections that can potentially be appropriate. This option should only be used by experienced users who know in advance what connections are appropriate.

    • Connection Style

      • Curved connections are much less likely to be ambiguous.
      • Straight Connections give your application the legacy appearance of EVS Pro and MVS.

    • Display Minor Ports: on the modules

    • Snap to Grid: When on, modules will align with a grid. This is a recommended setting, but when off, modules can be positioned anywhere.

    • Hide Viewer Connections: replaces (red) connections to the viewer with a "spoon-like" icon.

  • Windows: Allows you to toggle the visibility of the primary windows with the EVS environment

    • Modules

    • Properties

    • Overview

    • Outptut Log

    • Information

    • Packaged Files

    • Options takes you to the Options settings also accessible via the File menu