Using this manual

This manual has been split into five clearly differentiated parts.

The first part, General aspects , provides information on the basic aspects of the program. In this way, you can gain confidence and become more familiar with the system in order to take advantage of all the available facilities.

The second part, Preprocessing , describes the preprocessing functionality. You will learn how to configure a project and define all its components - geometry, data and mesh.

The third part, Analysis , concerns to the calculation process. Although it will be performed by an independent solver, it forms part of the integrated GiD system in that the analysis can be run from inside GiD.

The fourth part, Postprocessing , emphasizes aspects relating to the visualization of results.

The fifth part, Customization , explains how to customize your files so that you can introduce and run different solver modules according to your own requirements.

Different kinds of fonts are used to help you follow all the possibilities offered by the code:

  1. font is used for the options found in the menus and windows and for literal code.
  1. font is used for special references in some parts.