Ansys medini analyze's main toolbar provides quick links to the key functions of medini analyze, as described in the table below. Note that the toolbar updates depending on the currently active editor. Certain actions may be enabled or disabled.

Table 3.1: Ansys medini analyze Toolbar Icons

Button	Action
	Create a new project.
	Import an existing project into the workspace.
	Export a selected project from the workspace.
	Save the current project.
	Print the current page in preview mode.
	Generate a report from the table.
	Open the task list view, where you can track your running tasks.
	Open the Open Task window, where you can open old tasks or create a new task
	Search for a model element or a task

The Model Browser is the main view from where you access and manage your projects. Each project is structured into a number of predefined folders, with each folder serving a special task or group of tasks in the functional safety analysis and design. The initial folder structure depends on the safety domain profile and whether a project template has been used. You can create additional subfolders for each predefined folder, as well as for user-created folders. For more details, see Project Structure and Safety Domain Profiles.

When you select a model or object inside a project, the property view provides details about the selected object. It is a context-sensitive view that changes depending on the object type you selected.

From the Model Browser, all editors for model elements can be opened by double-clicking or via the context menu. Editors appear in the "Editor and View Area" (gray area after startup), but they can be freely arranged. Different editors exist for the various types of models and elements, such as form editors, table/worksheet editors, and graphical editors.

After you make changes in an editor, the Save button is enabled. To save your changes, click the Save button. The project is saved locally in the workspace. Note that you can undo and redo after saving the data. Each project provides a linear history of modifications that is kept until a project is closed or the tool is restarted.

 

3.2.2.1. Enabling Additional Views

In addition to the default views, there are views such as an Error Log View, Problems View, or Operational Situations Catalogs View. These views can be closed, or are not shown by default.

To open an additional view, complete these steps.

1. From the main menu, select Window > Show View > Other.

2. In the resulting dialog, select the view you want and click Open.

Views are organized in folders. To choose a view, open a folder. The selected view is displayed in the tool. You can freely position and resize it to your convenience. You can always close any view in medini analyze and reopen it again as described above. Note that closing a view does not delete the data shown in that view. When you reopen the view, it shows the same information as it did before closing.

Views that may be useful in supporting your work are listed in the table below.

Table 3.2: Useful Views

View	Folder	Description
Outline	General	Shows a miniaturized outline of a full diagram or model contents. Helpful in navigating large diagrams and quickly accessing objects in a model.
Problems	General	Contains all error messages or warnings concerning medini analyze projects. The result of a validation are shown here (for more information, see Project Validation) as well as issues reported during migration (for more information, see Project migration after updating medini analyze).
Properties	General	Can be used to show or modify the properties of any selected elements. Properties include graphical properties, such as color or line style, as well as element properties and their values.
Search	General	Shows the results of a search operation (for more information, see Searching)
Operational Situations Catalogs	Analysis	Displays all operational situations catalogs of a project and their contents. For more information, see Analysis based on Operational Situation Catalogs.
Model Browser	Analysis	This is the standard Model Browser view of medini analyze. Use it to reopen the Model Browser.
Dependency	Other	Visualizes relations between elements.
Error Log	General	Shows error messages, warnings, or information concerning the medini analyze tool itself. Open this view when you encounter a problem caused by medini analyze, or if the support team requests it.

To access the main views, navigate to Window > Show View. This submenu provides quick access to the most frequently used views.

Ansys medini analyze uses the Eclipse concept of perspectives.

Ansys medini analyze defines its own default "analyze" perspective. In addition, the tool includes a set of perspectives:

Activate perspectives by navigating to Window > Open Perspectives..., or by clicking the Open Perspective icon on the right above the workspace ( ).

To reset to a perspective's default settings, above the workspace, right-click the icon for that perspective and select Reset.

To close a perspective, right-click the icon for that perspective and select Close.

In Ansys medini analyze you can set a number of preferences. Most of the preferences influence the behavior as well as the look and feel of the different editors in medini analyze.

Note that preferences are specific to the local instance of the tool and for all projects opened in this tool. When the same project is opened with another instance of the tool (for example, by another user), that tool's preferences are applied. In addition to these tool-specific preferences, there are also project settings which are stored with a project and are only valid in the context of that project. For more information, see Project Settings.

To modify tool-specific preferences, select Window > Preferences. Preference categories are listed at the left side of the window. For categories that have a ">" symbol in front of the category name, you can click the symbol to expand the subcategories.

Some of the available settings are for color schemes, appearance of elements, or specific behavior of editors.

The following categories can be especially useful: