GUI Basic Tutorial Step 2

Step 2: Creating the Brick

Now you may begin generating the geometry to be meshed. You will create a brick of width 10, depth 10 and height 10. The width and depth correspond to the x and y dimensions of the object being created. The "width" or x-dimension is screen-horizontal and the "depth" or y-dimension is screen-vertical. The height or z-dimension is out of the screen.

• On the Command Panel, select Geometry, then Create Geometry, then Volume. Brick is the default type.

• Enter values for X, Y, and Z. Note, X (width) has a default value of 10. Select Apply to create the brick.

The brick should appear in your Graphics window as shown below.

Display of Brick

If you would like to change the rendering mode of your model, you may click on one of the view buttons in the Display Tools tool bar.