This document is a short introduction to working with COVISE. It is primarily a tutorial for COVISE novices. It doesn’t cover advanced topics such as the development of new application modules or the installation and configuration process. We assume that you have a running COVISE on your machine. For installation guide read the files README and INSTALL.TXT which come with your COVISEdistribution. For developing new application modules read the COVISE Programming Guide.

COVISE is a Collaborative Visualization and Simulation Environment developed at the Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart. It is an extendable distributed software environment to integrate supercomputer based simulations, postprocessing, and visualization functionality with cooperative working in a seamless manner.

The tutorial contains the five chapters:
In Chapter 1 Starting COVISE you learn how to initiate a single user session and load a saved session.
The functionality of some basic modules (RWCovise, DomainSurface, CuttingSurface) is explained.
Chapter 2 Using the Inventor Renderer gives a short introduction to the typical work with the Renderer.
Chapter 3 Working with Modules covers module ports and module parameters.
Chapter 4 Analysis of 3D Data describes the basic steps in analyzing complex 3D data with the general
COVISE modules. (This chapter has been reworked to make the user familiar with the ’Complex Modules’ for building maps quicker and easier.)
Chapter 5 Advanced Topics covers distributed computing and multi user sessions.

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