This menu contains options for loading data files. When loading a second data file, the user is asked whether they want to overwrite the data already loaded or to load the new data as an extra object. The menu also has entries for saving stl, .obj, .msh, .lsm and Zbuffer (depth map) files, copying the main image to the windows clipboard, and printing the main image, full page, on the windows printer.
| OpenSTL | Loads data files in binary or ASCII STL format. If these files are associated with the program, clicking on one will start the program and load the data set. |
| OpenOBJ | Loads data files in Wavefront OBJ format. If these files are associated with the program, clicking on one will start the program and load the data set. This program needs only the vertex list and the facet list to be in the object file. Any other data (texture, colour, vertex normals etc.) will be ignored. |
| OpenGidMesh | Loads data files in GiD MSH format. If these files are associated with the program, clicking on one will start the program and load the data set.Only triangle surface mesh data can be loaded (MESH dimension = 3 ElemType Triangle Nnode = 3). Multiple objects will all be loaded as if a single surface. |
| Open PRS | Loads, and creates a surface mesh for, a Scantron PRS file. |
| OpenLSM | Loads data files in the proprietary UCL format. If these files are associated with the program, clicking on one will start the program and load the data set. |
| Ref Object | Allows the creation of some sample shapes- plane, cube, sphere etc. The default size (some are rather small) can be altered using "change initscale" in the options menu. |
| SaveSTL | Saves the currently loaded data in binary STL (Stereolithography) format. |
| Save OBJ | Saves the currently loaded data in Wavefront OBJ format. NOTE: If a STL file has been loaded, this is an inefficient action unless the redundant vertices in the STL file have been detected and removed by applying the Condense STL function on the option menu. Only vertex and facet information will be written to the file. |
| SaveGidMesh | Saves the currently loaded data in GiD MSH format. NOTE: If a STL file has been loaded, this is an inefficient action unless the redundant vertices in the STL file have been detected and removed by applying the Condense STL function on the option menu. Only triangle surface mesh data can be saved (MESH dimension = 3 ElemType Triangle Nnode = 3). |
| Save VRML 2.0 | Saves the currently loaded data in VRML 2.0 format, appropriate for viewing with a suitably empowered web browser. NOTE: If a STL file has been loaded, this is an inefficient action unless the redundant vertices in the STL file have been detected and removed by applying the Condense STL function on the option menu. Only colour, vertex and facet information will be written to the file. |
| Save Zbuffer | Save the current view as a depth map (used for CNC milling). |
| Radial scan | Resamples the loaded data into UCL proprietary .LSM format |
| LoadViewpoint | Sets the viewpoint of the current object from a previously saved .vie file. This is useful to reload object orientations used when comparing surfaces.This only alters the viewpoint of the current object. |
| SaveViewpoint | Saves the viewpoint of the current object to a .vie file. If more than one object is loaded, and the relative orientations of the objects is important, then a viewpoint must be saved for each object without rotating them between saves. |
| LoadTags | Load a previously saved pattern of surface selection (created with the edit mode). Only a tag set previously saved from the currently loaded data set should be used. |
| SaveTags | Saves a pattern of surface selection (created with the edit mode) to a file for subsequent re-use. |
| ImgToClpbrd | Copy the image in the main window to the system clipboard. This is a screen copy and will have the current window pixel and colour resolution. Only one item will be stored in the clipboard. If needed, it should be pasted into another software package before copying anything else into the clipboard. |
| Print the image in the main window to the default printer (full page). | |
| Fixed Aspect | If checked, forces the window to be square ensuring correct aspect ratio display on most screens. |
| StdSize | restore main display window to 512*512 pixels which is the default size. |
| STL to OBJ | Utility to convert .STL file to a .OBJ file of the same name in the same directory |
| copy obj from aux | makes a copy of the data loaded in the aux object space and stores it in the current obj space. |
| Exit | Quit program |