datamap_editor

Datamap_Editor

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General Module Function

This simple module allows the user to create complex multi-range datamaps. The user simply connects the Datamap_Editor module to the object's red port.

Module Input Ports

Datamap_Editor has two input ports.

The first port (red) should be connected to the module whose rendered object you would like to color.

The second port (blue-red-blue-beige) is found on only a few modules in EVS/MVS. The modules with this port are contour_data, isolines, Datamap_Editor, and Legend.

These modules pass data corresponding to one or more subsetting levels (or solid contour levels). When this data is passed to Datamap_Editor, it is used to set the precise break points where datamap ranges (colors) will change. You still need to specify the colors for each of these ranges.

Module Output Ports

None

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Module Control Panel

The Datamap_Editor control panel is shown above. Because of the numerous options associated with this module, a short tutorial follows.

Let’s begin by building a simple network. We’ll read the UCD file initial_soil_investigation_subsite.inp for this example.

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The picture in your viewer should match that below.

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If you open the Datamap_Editor’s panel, it will look like this:

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Press the blue button, which corresponds to the color that the data minimum maps to. It will pop up a color selector window. Pick a color similar to that shown below and hit OK.

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At this point, your datamap editor should reflect the changes that you have made to the min color and the resulting datamap.

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The picture in your viewer should match that below. This is the simplest use of the Datamap_Editor. You can change the color that the data Min or Max maps to.

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Now let’s set extract_scalar’s data component to Geo_Layer and then go back to the Datamap_Editor’s panel and hit the Add_Range button 4 times. Datamap_Editor should now look like:

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Hit the "Make Stepped" button and the panel will change to look like below. Make Stepped is specifically for data like geo_layer and material colors:

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Select each of the four Blue buttons for ranges 2-5 (you can change the first one also if you want to) and change the color to the color you desire for each geologic layer. Your Datamap_Editor should now look something like:

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And the Viewer will now show layers with those colors.

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Now let’s change the network to include the module solid_contour_set. This module (and a few others like isolines) has a special output port made to pass contour levels. This information can be used by the Datamap_Editor to set the break points in the datamap to exactly correspond to the levels. Datamap_Editor then allows you to set each color individually.

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Set the levels and settings in solid_contour_set to match those shown below.

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Open the Datamap_Editor panel and turn on the "Min=Max" toggle. The panel should have 5 identical blue buttons. Set the color for each range and your Datamap_Editor should now look something like this.

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With the colors for each solid contour set, the Viewer should look like that below.

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