1. 1 Introduction to VE-Suite Gerrick Bivins Research Scientist Iowa State University

2. 2 Before we get started: Downloads: VE-Suite and dependencies www.vrac.iastate.edu/~biv/unofficial_installs/ves _9745_win32 www.vrac.iastate.edu/~biv/unofficial_installs/ves _9745_win32 Demos for today: www.vrac.iastate.edu/~biv/unofficial_installs/ves_9745 _win32/demos www.vrac.iastate.edu/~biv/unofficial_installs/ves_9745 _win32 NOTE: VES requires Microsoft runtime redistributable SP1 to run!!!

3. 3 Overview VE-Suite Components Conductor Xplorer Computational Engine Open spec Software Objects Data Integration CAD CFD/FEA etc… Demos Basic Object Construction Basic Scientific Vis TBET

4. 4 Software Components VE-Open API C++ API XML data exchange format IDL interfaces

5. 5 Core Components: Xplorer Graphics Engine Desktop, powerwal, c6, c4 etc. Dependencies vrJuggler – Hardware/Graphics VTK – Dataset representation OpenSceneGraph – scene graph Xerces-c – xml API ACE/TAO -- CORBA

6. 6 Core Components: Conductor Graphical User Interface Dependencies wxWidgets Xerces-c ACE/TAO -- CORBA

7. 7 Core Components: CE Computational Engine Dependencies Xerces-c ACE/TAO -- CORBA

8. 8 Defining Objects Still being defined (McCorkle, Bryden) So far Objects can contain CAD CFD FEA Etc…

9. 9 Objects: CAD Integration CAD files OpenSceneGraph www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg Supports many standard file formats No direct read of CAD (ProE, AutoCAD etc.)

10. 10 Objects: 2d/3d Data integration Visualization ToolKit www.vtk.org CVS version!!!!! Readers for various 2D/3D Grid data Plot3D StarCD Fluent Ensight

11. 11 Demos Object Construction Geometry Cloning Transformations Materials/Shaders CFD Data Basic Scientific Visualization Texture Based Engineering Tools (TBET)

12. 12

13. 13