Visualization Engine

VXE Visualization Engine features:
 

1. Standard Windows user interface
The look of VXE 1.0 (for UNIX) has completely given way to an interface that looks like a standard Windows application.

2. Optimized graphics rendering
The meter views and the 3-D view are optimized for modern video hardware and CPUs to allow greatly improved animation quality.

3. Full-featured CAD environment
Orthographic views will allow users to examine the system from different angles and greatly improve system building.

4. Greatly improved user interface in 3-D environments
With the graphics control panel, there is an easily accessed user interface for features that required a special key combination in earlier VXE versions.

5. Ability to export videos
Videos can be rendered to show others what the system visualizations look like. These can easily be placed in presentations.

6. Ability to export images
High-resolution images of plots or 3-D views can be made for printing.

7. Easy input/output with standard Office applications like Word and PowerPoint
The modeler can now use the Windows clipboard to bring in data from spreadsheets and to get images out of VXE for use in word processing programs.

8. Faster data communications
The speed of the data communications is much faster than in previous versions.

9. Non-lock-step communications support
The visualization can show the most recently calculated data and allow simulation to calculate as fast as possible.

10. Compressed data file support
The data files can be compressed to a much smaller size than raw text files to allow faster transfer over a network.

11. Optimized data file loading
Standard data files load several times faster than older versions and compressed data files can load more than 30 times faster.

12. Compatibility with Win 98 and greater
VXE 2.x required NT 4.0 or Win 2000.

13. Graphics detail control
The user can choose to limit aspects of the graphics detail to optimize a visualization for their specific hardware.

14. Lower minimum graphics requirements than VXE 2.x
Using the graphics detail control, users with low end cards can enjoy VXE 3.0 with limited but very usable quality.

15. Support of latest graphic features of current video cards
VXE 3.0 makes use of the latest graphics features if the video hardware supports them.

16. Easy to use plug-in SDK
Users with basic programming and graphics knowledge can easily develop their own plug-ins for the 3-D environment.

17. Easy to use communications SDK
VXE is easily connected to any C/C++ application that can generate data.

18. Real-time playback support
A visualization that lasts for a fixed number of seconds can be forced to play back for that amount of time so that the user can see the visualization in real-time.

19. Plug-in Overlays
Plug-ins can have 2-D views that overlay the 3-D environment. These can be used for plots and text readout.


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