This is deprecated module superseded by create_grid.
General Module Function
FPlane generates a 3D plane of variable size. This FPlane can be transformed in three dimensions. It will be located at the center of the input field's Z extents, and will be X and Y extents long. The plane is useful as a sampling or slicing object input to macros such as streamlines, advector, and cut.
Module Input Ports
FPlane has one input port which accepts any 3D mesh data.
Module Output Ports
FPlane has two output ports. The first port passes a 2D mesh representing the plane The second port passes the renderable geometry to the viewer.
Module Control Panel
The user interface for FPlane consists of numerous sliders for manipulation of the resulting plane. The x and y dimension sliders control the discretization of the nodes on the plane. The Azimuth and inclination sliders control the plane orientation. The translation sliders control the plane location and the scale sliders control the size of the plane. The FPlane is horizontal when originally instanced in EVS. All manipulations with the parameters described below are relative to an originally horizontal plane.
x and y-dimension Integer sliders to set the X and Y dimensions of the plane. The default for both is 8. Their range is from 2 to 100.
Transformation Editor An alternate XformEditor that controls the position, orientation, and scale of the object in 3D space. This panel is NOT as user friendly as the sliders on the initial panel (described below) so it's use is NOT recommended unless transformations cannot be achieved with the sliders below.
X , Y and Z Translate Locates the plane within the input field extents. The default extents represent the extents of the input field however the type-ins allow setting these values outside the original extents.
X and Y Scale Scales the plane relative the scale of the input field. The initial value is 1.00 representing 100% of the input field. Therefore, values between 0 and 1.00 will size the plane as percentages of the input x and y extents. Type-ins allow setting these values greater than the x and y extents of the model.
Related Modules
->Advector
-> Streamlines
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