4 research outputs found
The tool set for building claro - a component loading architecture. Sandia Report
No full textAbstract Claro, A Component Loading Architecture, was designed with two purposes. The first was to provide a graphical user interface for an existing command line tool, Cubit. Second, it was designed to provide a versatile user interface for other tools in the design through analysis (D2A) tool set. While many tools may not fit into the Claro architecture, the tools that were used to build Claro are valid in very broad range of applications. This report discusses the tools (specifically, Qt, VTK, and python) used to build Claro and shows how their utility and versatilty make them applicable to the larger set of D2A tools. As multiple projects use the same set of tools it makes it more probable that different groups can leverage the work of previous developers. 3 This page intentionally left blank.
MARK-IT: A MARKING USER INTERFACE FOR CUTTING DECOMPOSITION TIME
No full textWe present Mark-It, a marking user interface that reduced the time to decompose a set of CAD models exhibiting a range of decomposition problems by as much as fifty percent. Instead of performing about 50 mesh decomposition operations using a conventional UI, Mark-It allows users to perform the same operations by drawing 2D marks in the context of the 3D model. The motivation for this study was to test the potential of a marking user interface for the decomposition aspect of the meshing process. To evaluate Mark-It, we designed a user study that consisted of a brief tutorial of both the non-marking and marking UIs, performing the steps to decompose four models contributed to us by experienced meshers at Sandia National Laboratories, and a post-study debriefing to rate the speed, preference, and overall learnability of the two interfaces. Our primary contributions are a practical user interface design for speeding-up mesh decomposition and an evaluation that helps characterize the pros and cons of the new user interface
