Chapter 1: Overview

The following sections of this chapter are:

EnSight (for Engineering inSight) provides engineers and scientists easy-to-use, high performance graphics post-processing capabilities.

Similar to any power tool, you are well advised to learn how the tool works in order to maximize your investment in time and resources. EnSight is not a difficult tool to master but it has a vocabulary and some basic functionality which, lacking understanding, can make you unproductive.

The remainder of this manual will detail the capabilities of EnSight which can be summarized as: viewing, creating geometry and variables, performing queries, and saving various forms of data.