Drawing Panel
Drawing panel allows users to design their ideal structure by drawing. The drawn graph will act as a weighting diagram to influence the four optimizers. A detailed introduction to the drawing system can be found here.
Operations
Move the mouse into the canvas, the pointer will become a brush stroke. The pixels in the stroke can be weighted.
Left Click: weighting pixels
Right Click: erasing weights
Shift+Left Click: drawing lines
Functions
Radius (Slider)
Change the radius of the brush stroke
Hardness (Slider)
Change the hardness of the brush stroke
Opacity (Slider)
Change the opacity of the brush stroke
New (Button)
Create a new canvas
Solution A (Button)
Set Solution A's nodal sensitivity field as a base canvas
Solution B (Button)
Set Solution B's nodal sensitivity field as a base canvas
Solution C (Button)
Set Solution C's nodal sensitivity field as a base canvas
Solution D (Button)
Set Solution D's nodal sensitivity field as a base canvas
Return (Button)
Close the drawing panel without saving changes
Check (Button)
Save the changes and close the drawing panel
Load (Icon)
An icon that represents a load
Pinned Support (Icon)
An icon that represents a pinned support
Roller Support X (Icon)
An icon that represents a roller support (horizontal direction)
Roller Support Y (Icon)
An icon that represents a roller support (vertical direction)
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