FEBio Tutorial 1: Navigating GUI

I am a beginner for FEBiO and learning how to use it by myself. 

All tutorial sources are from https://help.febio.org/PreView/PreView_2_1/index.html based on FEBiO studio 1.0.0 (beta). 

 

I will follow 12 tutorials to summarize/remake/add contents for my understanding.  

 

Tutorial 1 is showing the basic concept of FEBiO GUI and explain how to use each window and tools.

 

The below figure is an overview of the FEBio Studio.

Open a file

Open the file for tutorial 1 from the directory C:\Program Files\PreView2.1.5\Examples.

Click File/Open from the Main menu bar.

The model of tutorial 1 is shown.

Manipulating a model at the Graphical view

In the Graphical view

Rotating: holding the right button of the mouse and dragging

Panning: holding the middle button of the mouse and dragging

Zooming: holding the right button of the mouse and dragging

 

Selecting objects at the Graphical view

In the Main toolbar

Selecting Objects, Parts, Surface, Curve, Nodes, Discretes

Using a box, circle, and free form

: Holding Shift for selecting and Ctrl for unselecting and holding left mouse button and dragging some area for selection

Transforming objects

Translation, rotation, and scaling the selected objects

Object translation

Selecting an object and clicking the translation tool: a triad appears

Moving the mouse cursor on an axis and the selected axis becomes highlighted. The object is movable to the highlighted direction.

Rotation and scaling are similar to the moving objects

When needing a precision transformation: Edit/Transform

Can adjust the transformation numerically

Undo and redo are available at the Main menu bar