2.1.1. Ribbon Groups, Menus, and Icon Bars

The ribbon groups and the menus, Project, Edit, View (menu), Home (on the ribbon), Utility, and Help, located on the ribbon or the menu bar, provide access to a variety of commands. You can switch between ribbon and menus in the User Preferences. Table 2.1: Project Menu or Home Group through Table 2.5: Help Group or Menu present a brief description of each of the menu items and the corresponding icon from the Icon Bar that can also be used as an alternative way to access the option. Also included in these tables are the equivalent keystrokes that can be used as shortcuts to the pull-down menu or icon selection.

Table 2.1: Project Menu or Home Group

Menu Item	Description	Keystroke
New...	Creates a new project. Prompts you for a project name.	Ctrl-N
Open...	Opens an existing project. Allows you to browse to the project file.	Ctrl-O
Import...	Allows importing into the current Ansys Chemkin User Interface of an input file from pre-Chemkin 4.0 releases for setting up a new project.	Ctrl-I
Clone	Clones the selected project.	Ctrl-Z
Close	Closes the selected project and associated project panels. Prompts you to save if the project has been changed.	Ctrl-W
Close All	Closes all open projects and associated project panels. If any of the projects have been changed, prompts you to save that project	Alt-W
Save	Saves the selected project. The project definition and user input are saved to a project file that can be accessed later by the Open command.	Ctrl-S
Save as...	Saves the selected project to a new file name or, alternatively, saves as an appended sub-project in another, existing project file. Prompts you to provide the new project name or browse to an existing project file.
Save All	Saves all open projects. For each project, the project definition and user input are saved to a project file.	Alt-S
Remove...	Removes the selected project.	Alt-D
Archive...	Assembles all associated files for the selected project and "zips" them into a single, compressed archive file for easy transfer. Prompts you for an archive file name.	Alt-N
Unarchive...	Extracts all the files from a zipped archive file (with extension ".ckzip" ) to create a new project. Prompts you for a directory in which to put the project file and all associated files.	Alt-O
Exit	Exits the User Interface. Prompts you to save any projects that have changed.	Ctrl-Q

Table 2.2: Edit Menu or Home Group

Menu Item	Description	Keystroke
Preferences...	Opens the user-preferences panel, which allows users to customize their Working Environment, as well as units and file-extension defaults.	Ctrl-M
Profiles...	Opens the profile-editor panel. Prompts you to choose to create a new or edit an existing profile. Profiles are used to describe boundary conditions, initial conditions, or system constraints that vary as a function of time, distance or other variable.	Ctrl-R
File Editor...	Launches the File Editor, which may be the built-in (default) editor or a 3^rd -party program, as designated in the user preferences panel.	Ctrl-L

Table 2.3: View Menu or Home Group

Menu Item	Description	Keystroke
CHEMKIN Visualizer...	Launches the graphical Ansys Chemkin Visualizer. When launched outside of the project file, only a previously created Visualizer file (.ckcsv) or a .csv file can be opened by the Visualizer. The Chemkin User Interface creates the .ckcsv file during the Analyze Results step.	Alt-P
View Java Memory...	Displays the amount of memory (RAM and virtual) used by the Java Virtual Machine running the User Interface. See Modifying the Memory Limits for the Chemkin Interface for controlling the memory limits.
View in Reaction Workbench...	Launches Ansys Chemkin Reaction Workbench. See the Chemkin Reaction Workbench User's Manual for more details.

Table 2.4: Utility Group or Menu

Menu Item	Description	Keystroke
Run Chemistry Set Pre-Processor...	Allows users to pre-process a chemistry set independent of any project.	Ctrl-B
Run Upgrade Solution Utility...	Upgrade the chemistry block for a previous Ansys Chemkin version XML solution data file, so that it can be post-processed with the Chemkin Visualizer.	Ctrl-U
Run Export Solution Utility...	Run the GetSolution utility that allows export of aAnsys Chemkin solution file into comma-delimited fields in a text file.	Ctrl-E
Run "Fitdat" Polynomial Equation Fitting Utility...	Run the FITDAT utility to convert a variety of formats of thermodynamic data into the polynomial fits required in Ansys Chemkin chemistry sets.	Ctrl-F
Clone Chemistry Set	Clone a chemistry set.
Archive Chemistry Set	Archive a chemistry set.
Unarchive Chemistry Set	Unarchive a chemistry set.

Table 2.5: Help Group or Menu

Menu Item	Description	Keystroke
Chemkin Help Main Page	Opens to Ansys Chemkin Ansys Help website.
Release Notes	Opens to the Chemkin Release Notes.
Advanced Analyses	Links to the Chemkin Advanced Analysis Guide.
Application Programming Interface (API)	Links to the Chemkin Application Programming Interface Manual.
Getting Started	Links to the Chemkin Getting Started Guide.
Input and File Formats	Links to the Chemkin Input Manual.
LPCVD Thermal Analyzer and Furnace Models	Links to the Chemkin LPCVD Thermal Analyzer and Furnace Manual.
Theory	Links to the Chemkin Theory Manual.
Tutorials	Links to the Chemkin Tutorials.
Visualization	Links to the Chemkin Visualization Manual.
Mechanism Reduction Best Practices	Links to the Mechanism Reduction Best Practices.
Model Fuel Library Validation Manual	Links to the Chemkin Visualization Manual.
Model Fuel Library Getting Started	Links to the Model Fuel Library Getting Started Guide.
Reaction Workbench Manual	Links to the Chemkin Reaction Workbench User's Manual.
Reaction Workbench Tutorials	Links to the Reaction Workbench Tutorial Guide.
Ansys Product Improvement Program	Displays information about and participation agreement for product improvement data.
About Ansys Chemkin...	Gives the software version number and brief license-summary information.	Ctrl-K