An Installation Guide is provided.
The on-line EnSight documentation consists of the Getting Started with Ansys EnSight, Ansys EnSight How-To Manual, Ansys EnSight User Manual, and Ansys EnSight Interface Manual. The online documentation is available via the Help menu.
Ansys EnSight User Manual
The Ansys EnSight User Manual is organized as follows:
Input. This chapter describes the reading of model data (with internal or user-defined readers), command files, archive files, context files, scenario files, and various other input and output operations.
List Panels. This chapter describes the various list panels, for parts, variables, annotations, plots/queries, viewports, frames, etc.
Main Menu. This chapter describes the features and functions available through the buttons and pull-down menus of the Main Menu of the GUI.
Features. This chapter describes the features and functions available through the Icon buttons of the GUI.
Transformation Control. This chapter describes the Global transformation of all Frames and Parts, the transformation of selected Frames and Parts as well as selected Frames alone, the transformation of the various Tools, and the adjustment of the Z-Clip planes and the Look At and Look From Points.
Light Source Editor . This chapter describes the selection and activation of variables, color palettes, and the creation of new variables.
Variables and EnSight Calculator. This chapter describes the format of various preference files which you can affect.
Preference and Setup File Formats. This chapter describes in detail the format of the various EnSight data formats.
EnSight Data Formats. This chapter describes a number of unsupported utility programs distributed with EnSight.
Utility Programs. This chapter describes how to configure EnSight for various VR configurations and for parallel rendering.
Remote Display and Parallel Compositing. This chapter describes the three kinds of displays (Caves, Walls and Head-mounted) and the external input devices used to navigate these displays.
Cave Environment, Wall Displays & Head-mounted Displays. This chapter describes the EnSight Virtual Communications Utility.
EnShell. This chapter describes the network settings of EnSight and provides information useful to set up EnSight on complex network systems.
EnSight Networking Considerations. This chapter describes an advanced rendering technique for creating high quality visualization results.
Ansys EnSight How-To Manual
The various Ansys EnSight How-To Manual documents available on-line provide step-by-step, click by click instructions explaining how to perform tasks within EnSight such as creating an isosurface or reading in data.
Ansys EnSight Interface Manual
The Ansys EnSight Interface Manual describes the various methods and API's that exist for interfacing with EnSight.