2.5 Display and Layouts (Perspectives)

A perspective (or layout) is a collection of views and editors that makeup the layout of your display. Perspectives are linked to the TreeAge Pro software and not to your specific model. You can create/use different perspectives associated with different sets of tasks. Build, Analyze and Simple perspectives come pre-installed with the software.

You may see different perspectives in your workbench based on a workspace created with an older version of TreeAge Pro. To use the new perspectives, you can create a new workspace. Click here for instructions in the TreeAge Software Knowledge Base.

Perspectives can be selected from the top-right corner of the TreeAge Pro application window. The pre-installed perspectives may meet all your needs, but you can manipulate and then save the layout to suit personal preferences.

Build, Analyze and Simple Layouts

New users of TreeAge Pro will start with the Simple layout. This layout shows the most common views and actions. When you are ready to move beyond the basics, select the Build and Analysis layouts for additional functions associated with building and analysing models, respectively.

The Simple perspective is a more concise layout for simple modeling.

The three perspectives are shown in the figures below with different tools associated with each. You can roll over each tool icon with a mouse and the tool tips (comments associated with that tool) will describe what each tool does.

Manipulating layouts

The current layout selected (such as Build or Analyze) remembers the changes you make to the organization of views and editors to meet your needs. The next time you open TreeAge Pro with that layout, the visual organization will be the same as when you left it.

If you ever want to return a layout to the original "factory specs", right-click on the layout (top right) and choose Reset from the context menu.