Crafter Spacecraft Design Program

Contents

• 1 Overview

• 2 Installation

  • 2.1 Installing Geomview
  • 2.2 Installing Crafter

• 3 Interaction

  • 3.1 Starting Crafter
  • 3.2 Command line options
  • 3.3 Overview of Geomview
  • 3.4 Basic Interaction: The Model Editor
    • Hierarchy list
      • Selection
    • Navigating in the hierarchy list
    • File name
    • Menus
  • 3.5 Creating and attaching objects
  • 3.6 Editing an object's properties
    • General properties
      • Long name
      • Group properties vs. individual properties
      • Transformations
      • Coordinate axes
      • Appearance
        • Color
      • Buttons on the General Properties panel
    • Class-specific properties
    • Model properties
    • Options window
    • The Null primitive
  • 3.7 Editing the hierarchical structure
  • 3.8 Reading and writing files
  • 3.9 Feeding commands to Crafter
    • Typing in commands directly
    • Reading commands from a pipe
  • 3.10 Quitting Crafter
  • 3.11 Keyboard Shortcuts

• 4 More on Transformations

• 5 Command Language

  • 5.1 Brief introduction to Tcl
    • Command syntax
    • Variables and substitution
    • Quotes and braces
    • Control flow
    • Comments
  • 5.2 Crafter-specific commands
    • Conventions
    • Manipulating objects
    • File manipulation
    • Examples

• 6 Appendix

  • 6.1 Menu items
  • 6.2 Primitives and properties