A General-Purpose Software for Menu Design of CAD Projects

13th Computers in Engineering Conference ◽

10.1115/cie1993-0074 ◽

1993 ◽

Author(s):

Y. C. Pao

Keyword(s):

Software Package ◽

Computer Programs ◽

General Purpose ◽

Final Report ◽

Sample Design ◽

Main Menu ◽

Sample Application ◽

User Friendly ◽

Four Bar Linkage ◽

General Purpose Software

Abstract A software package MenuCAD has been developed for the general need of designing menu-driven, user-friendly CAD computer programs. The main menu is formatted similar to the major contents in the final report of the design project including Contents, Analysis, Sample Design Cases, Illustrations and Tables, References, and Program Listings. Sub-menus are further divided into items delineating the steps involved in the design. Screen help messages are provided for design of the main menu and sub-menus interactively and for applying the arrow keys on the keyboard to select a sub-menus and a particular item in the sub-menu in order to execute a desired design step. MenuCAD builds the framework, its user has to supplement with a subroutine ExecItem for describing the special features and for directing how each design step should be executed in the project. A CAD design of four-bar linkage project is presented as a sample application of this package.

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A user-friendly general-purpose predictive software package for food safety

Journal of Food Engineering ◽

10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.021 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 104 (2) ◽

pp. 173-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Amit Halder ◽

Ashish Dhall ◽

Ashim K. Datta ◽

D. Glenn Black ◽

P.M. Davidson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Software Package ◽

General Purpose ◽

User Friendly ◽

Predictive Software

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HRSP — A dedicated echelle reduction software package for Hercules

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100011362 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 193 ◽

pp. 575-578 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jovan Skuljan

Keyword(s):

Binary Stars ◽

Software Package ◽

Cross Correlation ◽

Reduction Process ◽

Cosmic Ray ◽

General Purpose ◽

Reduction Procedure ◽

The Past ◽

Stellar Pulsations ◽

General Purpose Software

AbstractA collection of computer programs called the Hercules Reduction Software Package (HRSP) has been developed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, for the data reduction of échelle spectra obtained with the Hercules spectrograph. The main goal in writing a dedicated software package for Hercules was to achieve a highly-optimized reduction process that would provide the basis of a pipeline reduction performed at the Mt John University Observatory. Since the spectrograph has no moving parts, the spectrum produced in the focal plane does not move or change, so that the same reduction procedure can be applied to all CCD images. An optimized routine written especially for Hercules is always much more efficient and reliable than any general-purpose software available. HRSP is written in C and the whole reduction procedure is performed on standard FITS files. A standard échelle reduction is applied, including the background and cosmic ray subtraction, order extraction, flat-fielding, normalization and wavelength rebinning. A special feature is the radial velocity determination by cross-correlation, which has been tested extensively over the past two years proving that Hercules is capable of delivering the high-precision radial velocities needed for detailed studying of binary stars, stellar pulsations, extra-solar planets and other related fields.

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A General-Purpose Software Package for Array Relaxation

10.21236/ada086100 ◽

1979 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Russell C. Smith

Keyword(s):

Software Package ◽

General Purpose ◽

General Purpose Software

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Fit for Humans: A New Look for the Finite Intersection Test

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128703101004 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 31 (10) ◽

pp. 1096-1100 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Timothy P. Barry ◽

John Reising

Keyword(s):

General Purpose ◽

Computer Interface ◽

Human Computer Interface ◽

Finite Intersection ◽

Multivariate Statistical ◽

Mainframe Computer ◽

User Friendly ◽

Computer Expertise ◽

Intersection Test ◽

General Purpose Software

The recent introduction of microcomputers to the business and research communities has vastly increased the population of users exposed to general purpose software programs. These users, however, often lack the level of sophistication and computer expertise characterized by those who interact with minicomputers or mainframes, making the development of user-friendly general purpose software very challenging. This paper describes the conversion of a multivariate statistical software package from operation on a mainframe computer to a microcomputer and the redesign of its human-computer interface, allowing the program to be employed by a more diverse user population.

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