ValuesDisplay

Displaying signal values as a billboard.

Collaboration diagram for ValuesDisplay:

Author

Karl-Johan Reite

Date

29.11.2013 KJR: Initial version.

Example configuration excerpt

<Lib LibName                 = "fishery"
   SimObject                 = "Trawl/ValuesDisplay"
   Name                      = "Display"
   FilterFrames              = "30"
   DisplayBox                = "0, 20, 0.6, 0.12"
   Material                  = "gray32"
   Signal1                   = "1,Roll angle,{:4.1f},deg,57.4"
   Signal2                   = "1,Control signal,{:4.1f},m/s"
   Signal3                   = "3,Crowfoot.LineForce1,[{:4.1f} {:4.1f} {:4.1f}],kN,0.001"
/>
</Lib Libname                = "fishery"
    SimObject                = "Trawl/Crowfoot"
    Name                     = "CrowFoot"
    NumLines                 = "3"
/>
...

Input Ports

Name	Width	Description
In	<PortWidth>	The input signals.

Configuration parameters

Name	Width	Description
FilterFrames	1	The number of visual frames to filter the output, using a FIR filter
DisplayBox	4	The x and y position for upper left corner, widt and heigth in ratio of screen size
Material	1	The material to use as background. The default is transparent.
NumSignals	1	The number of input ports.
Signal<N>	Signal size	prefix string, value format, suffix string (typically unit) and optionally a multiplier factor

Initial conditions

This simobject has no initial conditions.

Full example file

<Contents>
   <OBJECTS>
      <Lib
         LibName                   = "base"
         SimObject                 = "Environment/Basic"
         Name                      = "Environment"
         MeanDepth                 = "190"
         BottomRoughness           = "5"
         SurfaceTextureScale       = "1000"
         BottomTextureScale        = "15"
         BottomStructureScale      = "50"
         TerrainRadius             = "1000"
         SurfaceDepth              = "0"
         NumTerrainRings           = "170"
      />
      <Lib
         LibName                   = "fishery"
         SimObject                 = "Trawl/ValuesDisplay"
         Name                      = "Display"
         FilterFrames              = "30"
         DisplayBox                = "0, 20, 0.6, 0.12"
         Material                  = "gray32"
         Signal1                   = "3,Pos,[{:.2f} {:.2f} {:.2f}],m"
         Signal2                   = "3,Vel,[{:.2f} {:.2f} {:.2f}],m/s"
      />
      <Lib
         LibName                   = "fishery"
         SimObject                 = "Trawl/CenterWeight"
         Name                      = "CenterWeight"
         Mass                      = "1000"
         Material                  = "Simple/Green"
         Density                   = "7500"
      />
   </OBJECTS>
 
   <INTERCONNECTIONS>
      <Connection
         Environment.CurrentVel = "1, 0, 0"
         CenterWeight.Force1    = "10,10,10"
         CenterWeight.Force2    = "10,10,10"
         CenterWeight.Force3    = "10,10,10"
         Display.In1            = "C.Pos"
         Display.In2            = "C.Vel"
      />
  </INTERCONNECTIONS>
 
  <INITIALIZATION>
    <InitialCondition
       CenterWeight.Pos = "0,0,-5"
       CenterWeight.Vel = "0,0,0"
    />
  </INITIALIZATION>
 
   <INTEGRATION>
      <Engine
          IntegratorMethod           = "2"
          NumCores                   = ""
          TOutput                    = "0, 1, 30"
          LogStates                  = "0"
          Stepsize                   = "0"
          HMax                       = "0.1"
          HMin                       = "1E-060"
          AbsTol                     = "0.001"
          RelTol                     = "0.001"
          UseRSSNormInsteadOfInfNorm = "0"
          FileOutput                 = "objects:all"
      />
   </INTEGRATION>
</Contents>

This SimObject is referred to as Trawl/ValuesDisplay