Keyboard accelerators are certainly not essential, but they can be useful. Many things in life follow the Pareto principle – a vital few vs. the trivial many. Investing time remembering the shortcuts for your more-used functions can help. And, if you’re planning on using the Tecplot ADK, you can even create your own menu items using functions such as TecUtilMenuInsertOption.
New to Tecplot? This video can help identify your vital-few!
Diagonalization is a good way to convert structured surface grids to unstructured grids: but it’s not easily automatable. FlashPoint takes a different yet related approach to the problems posed by thin surfaces. View this video for an outline on how you can tailor FlashPoint’s behavior. For added credit: experiment with the Boundary Proximity Influence.
The 34 page report cited above makes for interesting reading, and illustrates why a good statement of the problem need not always lead to an equally good solution. While many of the drawbacks identified in 1984 have since been corrected, you can and should do better then IGES. Read this article for notes on the recommended order of preference. Don’t forget to note the caveat on JT!
