Some of the features of Seakeeper can be accessed using the icons on the toolbars. You can hold your mouse over an icon to reveal a pop-up tip of what the icon does.

The File toolbar contains icons that execute the following commands:

New – Open Maxsurf file– Save Seakeeper Input data| Cut - Copy - Paste | Print

The View toolbar contains icons that execute the following commands:

Zoom – Shrink – Pan – Home View – Rotate – Assembly window (disabled).

The Rotate command is only available in the Perspective window. The Assembly window is not available in Seakeeper.

The Analysis toolbar contains an icon that starts the analysis: Solve Seakeeping Analysis

The Contours toolbar contains icons that facilitate the display of surface contours:

Sections – Waterlines – Mapped Sections | Wave Grid

The Window toolbar contains icons that make the corresponding window come to the front:

Perspective – Plan – Profile – Body Plan – Input Data – Results Data – Results Graph – Polar Plot

The Results Window toolbar contains icons that allow you to quickly choose which analysis run is displayed. Menus that are irrelevant to the currently active table are greyed out and unavailable for selection:

Speed – Heading – Spectrum – Remote Location – Section – Encounter Frequency

The Window toolbar contains icons that facilitate swapping between the different graph types. Use the Results toolbar to select the data for the desired analysis run and dataset, for example: using the results toolbar you can display the remote spectrum graph for the Bridge Centre for a JONSWAP 10s 4m headseas condition at 15 kts. See the Results Toolbar paragraph above for more information.

Also see

Graphing the Results on page 30