4. Curve Explorer and Pilot Screen

5. Other Forms and Tools

Other Forms and Tools of 3DMath Explorer:  

5.1.Template Curve Selection or Template Curve Entry

The easiest method to enter e new curve into a pilot screen with curve explorer is selecting a template curve from template curves by using Template Curve Selection form that opens with Select button on the Curve Explorer. In this form, you can select a template curve by double click on the grit or pressing OK button.

You can see active template curve in preview screen. You can easily change properties of this screen with aid of buttons and other subjects.

In Template Curve Selection form you can enter a new template curve or change/delete an existed template curve too. Any change or a new template curve entry actives with Post button.

When the form opens from File Menu as Template Curve Entry to enter new curves into  template curves file, its appearance changes a little. Close and Help buttons take over by OK and Cancel buttons and colors of the grit and many others subjects become white color.

This form like Pilot Screens opens as a child form of main form. So the treatments such as minimize, maximize horizontal/vertical tile that applies to Pilot Screens are also valid for it.

5.2.All Properties Form

With 3DMath Explorer, we pilot graphs in an object driven space. All properties of  this space can be change with All Properties Form. This form opens by selecting All Properties in Display Menu, or pressing  button on Standard Toolbar, or by All Properties command in the menu that opens with right mouse click on Pilot Screen. But the easiest way to open this form is double click on Pilot Screen and the form pops up on to computer screen.

In this form, properties of Pilot Screen are grouped in four division.

In General Tab, background color, fogging and its density, perspective and horizon point of perspective, little axis’s visibility and its color can be change and all properties in this form can be made default screen properties, or default properties that set before can be load.

In Axis’s and Grids Tabs, display properties of axis and grid plot elements can be change. Axis numbers visibility can be change on and off or Grids can be cover with polygons.

In Animation Tab pilot can be animate by open Auto Rotate property and Timer Interval of Auto Rotation can be select.

5.3.Toolbars

3DMath Explorer, has two toolbars named as View Toolbar and Standard Toolbar. By using toolbars, user almost can do every thing without going up to any menu.

Visibility of toolbars can change with Toolbars submenu in View Menu or with menu that opens by right mouse click on an empty space by side of  them.

Except these two toolbars, a third bar exists in the program. This is Status Bar and it displays short information about operations to guide users. But you can hide this bar to get more vision space on your computer screen. To do this go View Menu and remove the thick before Status Bar command.

The visibilities of this bars save to an ini file as view properties of program. Program read and apply this properties next time it opens.

In Animation Tab pilot can be animate by open Auto Rotate property and Timer Interval of Auto Rotation can be select.

5.3.1.View Toolbar

Many properties of piloting screen can be change directly by using View Toolbar that you see in the picture below.

Now let’s take buttons and their tasks in order. The first six buttons change visibility of XY, XZ, YZ grids and x, y, z axis’s. The Num button  changes axis’ numbers visibility. Next three buttons change draw types of all curves to polygons, lines and points at the same time. Next four buttons open or close fogging, perspective, Four View and Auto Rotate properties of pilot screen. The next four buttons that comes after this buttons set front, right, left and perspective view of graph. When you set the button with hand picture down, you can carry center of graph with mouse. On the other hand when you set the next button down you rotate the graph over x and y axis’ with mouse. The two buttons that comes next zoom the graph to twice its current size or zoom the graph to half its current size. To zoom the graph an exact size in numbers, all you have to write it down the next area in this toolbar or select a value from its drop down list. You can open Zoom form by double click in this area and select a zoom size by using this form too

This form opens  with Custom in Zoom Menu or by double click on zoom combo box in view toolbar or by Zoom command in the menu that opens with right mouse click on Pilot Screen

5.3.2.Standard Toolbar

Many buttons in Standard Toolbar almost exist all applications as a standard. So we don’t need to mention all about them. So we take only some of them, and tell their tasks.

 button opens a new pilot window/screen  that has only default piloting elements that wants to visible.

 button opens files with ’.tec’ extension to show and work on in a new graphing window/screen.

 button uses to save graph in active window as technical file format (with ’.tec’ extension) or the simple picture format file (with ‘.bmp’ extension).

 button prints out graph in active window.

 button copies the graph in active window as a bitmap picture and puts it on the clipboard so that you can paste this picture to any word or picture editing program.

 button shows or hides Curved Explorer tool window.

 button shows or hides Operator Select tool window

 button shows or hides View Toolbar.

 button opens Vertex Values form to see coordinate values of vertexes that used to draw graph in active window.

 button opens All Properties form to change properties of active windows.

 button opens a simple calculator program named Function Calculator to calculate functions.

5.4.Operator Select Tool Window

Now let’s mention about the two form that named above.  First of them is Operator Select Tool Window, and  it is a tool that make easy to enter the functions that given by users as parameters of curves. With help of this tool, operators, parenthesis, functions, numbers and constants can be entered more quickly.

		+	Addition
		-	Subtraction
		*	Multiplication
		/	Real Division
		\,div	Integer Division
		%,mod	Remainder
		^	Power
		!	Calculate the N!**
		=	Assignment
		Not	Boolean NOT
		And	Boolean AND
		Or	Boolean OR
		Xor	Boolean XOR
		==,eq	Equal
		!=,neq	Not Equal
		<,lt	Less-Than
		>,gt	Greater-Than
		<=,le	Less-Than-or-Equal-To
		>=,ge	Greater-Than-or-Equal-To
		(,),[,]	Left-Right Parenthesis
		[|,|]	Absolute Value Left-Right Parenthesis
		pi	Constant Pi 3,14159265358979..
		e	Constant 2,71828182745905.......
		true	Constant 1
		false	Constant 0
Cos	Cosine function	Sin	Sine function
Arccos	Inverse cosine function**	Arcsin	Inverse Sine function**
Cosh	Hyperbolic cosine function**	Sinh	Hyperbolic Sine function**
Arccosh	Inverse cosine Hyperbolic function	Arcsinh	Inverse Sine function Hyperbolic **
Tan	Tangents function**	Cotan	Cotangents function**
Arctan	Inverse Tangents function**	Arccot	Inverse Cotangents function**
Tanh	Hyperbolic Tangents function**	Coth	Hyperbolic Cotangents function**
Arctanh	InverseTangentsHyperbolic function	ArcCoth	Inv. Cotangents Hyperbolic function
Sec	Sekant function**	Cosec	Cosecant function**
Arcsec	Inverse Secant function**	Arccosec	Cosecant function**
Sech	Hyperbolic Secants function**	Cosech	Hyperbolic Cosecants function**
Arcsech	Inverse Secants Hyperbolic function	Arccosech	Inv. Cosecants Hyperbolic function
Ln	Natural logarithm function**	Abs	Absolute Value**
Log	Logarithm function (base 10)	Sgn	Signum of a number**
Log2	Logarithm function (base 2)	Heav	Greater than1.0 function**
Ph	Ph function**	Zero	Zero function**
Ceil	Ceil  function**	Floor	Floor function**
Round	Closest Integer Value function**	Ýnt	Integer Part of a real number**
Fact	Factorial (Calculate the N!) function	Exp	Exponent (e^)  function**
Sqr	Square**	Sqrt	Square Root**

**The functions that banned in limited trial version

This form is also important to show functions, constants and operators that can be use in 3DMath Explorer. In this form, as you see, same buttons are disabled. These are functions and operators that you can’t use even you write them manually in trial version. This is the only limitation for trial version.

5.5.Vertex Values Form

The second form that named above is Vertex Values Form. This form lets you see coordinates of vertexes, that belongs to curves and used to pilot them, with functional properties of curves. With the aid of navigation buttons, you can move over curves. The form shows sum of lines length and (if exist) sum of surface area of curves.

This form opens up in many way. For example it can be open by Vertex Values in Tools Menu or by click on  button on Standard Toolbar or selecting Vertex Values in right mouse menu that opens on Pilot Screens.

5.6. Looks Form

Looks Form enables you  more efficiently select a view. Select one of tree main view or write rotation angles of x and y axis’s, and click OK. This form opens by selecting Other in Looks Menu or by Look command in the menu that opens with right mouse click on Pilot Screen.

Instead of this form, you can get any view of  pilot by mouse. Just press right mouse button and hold it, rotate the graph on x and y axis’s by mouse movements, and release the button when the graph comes to the rotation that you want to get.

5.7. Zooming Form

Although we already mentioned about this form when telling buttons task in View Toolbar, we have to take it again in this topic. Zooming form enables you select more efficiently a zoom rate. Select a zoom rate or write a zoom percentage, and click OK. This form opens by Custom command in Zoom Menu or by double click on zoom combo box in View Toolbar or by Zoom command in the menu that opens with right mouse click on Pilot Screen.

Of course zoom value of Graph can change much easily with zoom in and zoom out buttons or zoom field in view toolbar.

5.8. Wall Paper Properties Form

Our last form is Wall Paper Properties Form that opens by selecting Wall Paper in View Menu or by double click on main form wall paper. With this form main form wallpaper properties can change. After choosing the file that will be used for wall paper and its display pattern, new properties would set up by pressing OK button.

5.9. Function Calculator

Function Calculator is a simple calculator program that calculates functions. In 3DMath Explorer you can externally run this program as a additional tool. You can always use this program alone as simple and very useful calculator. Write your mathematical functions and values of variants that are needed for calculation, and click Calculate or press Enter. The result will be generate and appear in result box.

In this version of Function Calculator, there is almost everything which you want to be in a good calculator.