Multi-Window Operation
The AcuFieldView modeling window can be split into more than one window.

Figure 1.
- Background color
- Background image and position
- Outline set either on or off
- Axis markers set either on or off
- Rotation increment
- Scale factor
- Move factor
- Perspective, set either on or off
- Perspective angle, when perspective is on
There is a toolbar within each window, fixed in the upper left corner. A Window Actions menu, accessible from either the vertical or horizontal split icons on the window toolbar, lets you create a new window by splitting the current one. Windows can be split repeatedly, either horizontally or vertically. When a window is split, the new window resulting from that action becomes the current window.
The toolbar for the current window is colored green and is highlighted with a green border. To make a different window current, left-click anywhere in the window of interest.
Sashes are used to identify the borders separating each window. A handle located at the center of each sash can be used to interactively resize windows. Windows within the graphics window are interconnected. If a window is resized, any windows bordering it will also be resized, growing or shrinking to fully occupy the space defined by the graphics window.
Window Split Actions

Figure 2.
- Window Action: Copy
- When Copy is selected from the Window Actions menu, a virtual representation
for all of the datasets in current window is created. As part of the Copy
action, the visualization objects for each dataset in the original window
are re-created on virtual datasets in the new window produced by the split.
These visualization objects are independent representations and can be
displayed with different attributes than their original content. The image
below starts (at left) with a coordinate plane colored with the scalar
function temperature, and a boundary surface with the display type mesh.
After a vertical split, Copy action, a new coordinate surface and a new
boundary surface are created in window two at right. At this point, the
scalar function for the coordinate surface in window two is changed from
temperature to concentration.
Figure 3. Vertical Split, Copy Action - Window Action: Instance
- When the Instance action is selected, a view-only representation of the visualization object(s) for all datasets in the original window is created in the new window. Selecting any instanced visualization object by quick-picking in any window lets you modify it. Modifications, such as changing the scalar function or scalar range for example, are automatically propagated to all instances of that visualization object.
- Window Action: Empty
- When the Empty action is selected, a new window is created without any
virtual copies of datasets or visualization objects, as shown below. If the
empty window remains current, any dataset when read in will be displayed in
it. The contents of all other windows will remain undisturbed.
Figure 5. Vertical Split, Empty Action