selection in keyin lists

I referred to this briefly in last week’s blog about mouse selection, but on further reflection I think it’s important enough to give it its own article: the KeyIn dialog boxes let you interact with the drawing too.
Graphical Selection 
Take KeyIn Boundary Conditions for example.

Here I want to edit the pressure on the left side of my dam, [...]

mouse selection

Continuing with last week’s theme of efficient use of your mouse, this week I’ll show the three ways to select things with the mouse.
There are three ways to select objects on your drawing:  single selection, line selection and rectangular selection.
Single Selection
This is the obvious one that everyone knows:  click on an object to select it. 
Note, [...]

using your mouse wheel

Knowing how to use your mouse wheel can make you more efficient in a graphically-oriented application like GeoStudio.  The more you can do with your mouse, the less time is spent moving your hand from your mouse to your keyboard.
Zooming 
In GeoStudio, like AutoCAD, the mouse wheel can be used for zooming.  Spin the wheel up [...]

hardware recommendations

One of our users asked me recently for advice on picking the best hardware configuration to run GeoStudio.  His office was buying new computers for their engineers and since they used GeoStudio heavily they wanted the best possible configuration within their budget.
The System Requirements on our web site are obviously pretty basic.  And they don’t [...]