Essentials - 01 Getting startet with GeoDict

The tutorial “Getting Started with GeoDict” provides a practical introduction to the user interface and fundamental features of GeoDict. Step by step, it demonstrates how to set up a project, generate a first digital 3D structure, and subsequently visualize and modify it. A fiber structure generated with FiberGeo serves as an example, although other GeoDict generator modules can be used as well.

The tutorial focuses on the essential steps for getting started with GeoDict: setting up and organizing the Project Folder, generating structures, and working with the Result Viewer as well as the 2D and 3D viewport. It also demonstrates how to navigate and visualize structures, adjust material IDs, colors, and visibility settings, and save and reuse customized settings. Finally, users learn how to save, discard, and reload GeoDict structures. The tutorial is particularly suitable for new GeoDict users who want to become familiar with the user interface and the key features required for their first workflows.

• GeoDict basics and user interface: Getting familiar with the GeoDict user interface, setting up and organizing project folders, and accessing the User Guide and module-specific help.
• Structure generation: Creating a first digital 3D structure with FiberGeo, understanding generator modules, and using predefined start-up settings for quick structure generation. 
• Results and project management: Working with the Result Viewer, understanding result files and result folders, and managing simulation and structure-generation results within the Project Folder. 
• 2D and 3D visualization: Navigating structures in the viewport, zooming, slicing, changing viewing directions, switching between 2D and 3D views, and adjusting rendering options for improved visualization. 
• Materials, colors, and visualization settings: Understanding material IDs, changing colors and visibility, and using visualization features such as smooth rendering, outlines, halos, and global lighting. 
• Saving and reusing settings: Saving customized dialog settings, restoring default settings, and defining personal start-up settings for future GeoDict sessions. 
• Practical application in GeoDict: Saving, discarding, and reloading structures and learning the fundamental workflow required to start working independently with GeoDict.