Short reference

• Install the software AnTherm® - by installing the software you explicitly declare your acceptance of license term and conditions of use! You will also have to install the license file .
• Start Antherm via Windows Start Menu Start→Programs→AnTherm→AnTherm . To check if installation was successful please select Help→About....
• Press F1 key to show the application help.
• If needed you can change the user interface language to English (Englisch) or German (Deutsch)!
  Please consider also the additional dependencies of country specific localisation setting and the keyboard chosen. After changing these settings you will have to restart AnTherm to apply the changes.
• Open and load some example project via the menu Help→Example Load... . Follow instructions contained in tutorials and learn quickly how to effectively use AnTherm.
• Create your own, new project by selecting the menu File→New→xxx Project
• Reveal most important data input/entry windows by selecting the menu View→Data Input & Entry→Primay Edit Windows
• If you make a mistaken edit on your data revert your actions via Undo (Ctrl-Z) and Redo (Ctrl-Y) actions.
• Periodically save your current input data by using the menu File→Save...
• Request calculation results by selecting the menu Result... or depress the F5 key - after the calculation completes the thermal conductance matrix and calculation precision information will be shown.
• Define boundary conditions (temperatures, power densities) and apply them. The program will find coldest surface points and respective relative dew points together with fRsi values.
• Create graphical evaluations in 3D (surfaces, slices, colour maps, isolines, streamlines, iso-surfaces and many, many more) and export them to other applications for further processing.
• Finish and exit the program by selecting the menu File→Exit.

Main menu:

• File→New→2D Project: new 2D Model
• File→New→3D Project: new 3D Model
• File→New→Layered 3D Project: new 3D Layered Model
• File→Load: Open and load an AnTherm project file (also drag&drop of the file over the main window)
• File→Save/Save As...: save current project data into an AnTherm project file
• File→Import→Waebru.?BT : import data from WAEBRU component file
• File→Import→aCad.DXF: import data from specially prepared DXF file
• File→Export→Conductance Matrix...: save the conductance matrix into a CSV file for further processing
• File→Export→Report...: save a report into any of XLS, DOC, PDF, RTF compatible files
• File→Exit: Finish and exit the application
• Edit→Settings: application settings
• Results… (or the F5 key): save project data, execute calculation, entry of boundary conditions, display of result and evaluation windows
• View→Data Input & Entry→...Input windows: input and data entry/modification windows
• View→Evaluation & Reports→...result and evaluation windows: various result and evaluation windows
• Window→...: window navigation (MS-Windows specific)
• Help→...various help: application information and application documentation
  Pressing F1 key shows application help also.

VAPOUR-option: Analysis of multidimensional vapour diffusion is only possible with an active VAPOUR-Option of the program..

Input and data entry windows: Description, Element Editor, Materials, Surfaces, Element browser, Layers, Elements 2D, Snap grid, Translate, Rotate, Mirror, Stretch

The context menu of element processing (by pressing the right mouse button over Elements 2D, Element Editor, Element browser):

• Edit Element: Show the Element editing window.
• Add→Append/After/Before Selected: Creates and adds a new element
• Duplicate: Creates and adds an exact copy of the selected element.
• Move (Order)→Relegate/Promote: reorders the position of selected element(s) within the element's list
• Select→By Group/Type/Name/All: Selection of elements
• Copy, Cut, Paste: Transfer elements to/from clipboard.
• Undo (Ctrl-Z) and Redo (Ctrl-Y) your selection and editing actions

Element browser window (use functions of the context menu of element processing - by pressing the right mouse button over this window):

• Click in the list: Element selection. Selected element is shown in Elements 2D and Element Editor.
• Double-click in the list: Element Editor will be shown.
• Right mouse button: show the context menu of element processing.

Element Editor: (use functions of the context menu of element processing - by pressing the right mouse button over this window - and a double-click over material or surface data will reveal Materials/Surfaces lists):

• Use the TAB or Shift-TAB key to confirm data entered into the input field and to move the input focus between the fields and controls!
• Use arrow keys when the element type input field is focused!
  • Empty Box – excavating element. Elements „underneath“, i.e. listed earlier in the element list are overlapped with "Nothing".
  • Material Box – a material cell has material properties, like conductance, assigned to it.
  • Space Box – represents Space. A Space cell is used to assign "heat transfer coefficient" to the surface of the construction and then, during evaluation, to assign air temperature as the boundary condition for the space.
  • Power Box – the Power-Box frame. Material elements „underneath“, i.e. listed earlier in the element list will be defined as power sources (in addition to its material property). These areas are then assigned power boundary condition during the evaluation.
• Names of Spaces and Power Sources will be used to create the list of available boundary conditions during evaluation.
• A double-click over material or surface data reveals Materials/Surfaces lists
• Right mouse button: reveals the context menu of element processing.
• Use the ENTER key while the button "Duplicate" is focused!

Windows of Materials und Surfaces are used to prepare of the later needed (and reusable) properties of Materials- or Surfaces:

• A double-click transfer the selected property onto (selected) element(s)
• Right mouse button: Shows Material- or Surface properties and the Insert/Delete functions.

Elements 2D Windows (use functions of the context menu of element processing - by pressing the right mouse button over this window):

• Dragging with the mouse: pans the view
• Turning the mouse wheel: scales (zooms) the view
• Click onto an element's rectangle: element selection (single)
• Double-click onto an element's rectangle: the Element Editor is shown.
• SHIFT key held while dragging with the mouse: Element selection with a lasso.
• Dragging the Edit mark: Changes the coordinates of the element according Snap-To-Grid settings.

Layer browser window: selection and editing of a Layer in a Layered 3D Project

• New/Delete: insert or delete a Layer
• Move Up/Down: moves the selected layer within the list of layers
• Click right mouse button: shows the context menu of layer editing functions
• Click left mouse button selection of a layer from the list of layers. Element browser and Element 2D window will show elements of this selected layer.
• Double-Click left mouse button: show Layer editing window.

Elements 3D window: Is used for continuous visual verification during creation of 3D models.

• Drag with the mouse: rotates and rolls the view following the Track-Ball principle.
  with CTRL-key held roll around the Z axis.
  with SHIFT-key held scales the view.
• Fit: will show the whole construction in the window.
• Brightening with More Light, Showing as Solid or as wire frame model
• Transferring the view via clipboard to another application for further processing.

Boundary conditions window: Is used to enter boundary conditions for evaluation (e.g. temperatures). "Apply" start the superposition and the  evaluation.

Reports: Data Entry Report, Modelling Report, Result Report, Coupling Coefficients Report, Psi-Value Determination : Textual output of results

• Menu File→Print: prints the report
• Menu File→Export→Report: export/save the report as Acrobat PDF, Excel XLS, Word DOC
• File→Export→Coupling Coeff. Matrix...: save the matrix of thermal coupling coefficients to a CSV file
• Controls on the Toolbar: Zoom the display, print, export etc.

Results 3D window: 3D visualisation of temperature distribution, heat stream density, heat stream and surface humidity.

• Drag with the mouse: rotates and rolls the view following the Track-Ball principle.
  with CTRL-key held roll around the Z axis.
  with SHIFT-key held scales the view.
• Fit: will show the whole construction in the window.
• Evaluation views: model, isolines / isotherms, iso-surface, probe, slice X,Y,Z, streamlines, vector arrows, profile diagram
• Secondary functions: Active (scalar) function and active vector field: temperature °C, heat stream density W/m², relative surface humidity %, saturated vapour pressure hPa, partial vapour pressure hPa, vapour pressure difference hPa, relative interstitial core humidity %, vapour stream density mg/m²h, vector field of heat stream W/m², vector field of vapour stream mg/m²h.
• Collecting and interactively moving or picking points of interest
• Colouring by given colour map, adjusted value range, and opacity/transparency, brightening with More Light
• Representation as solid or wire frame model
• Setting and quick restoring of 3D results evaluation parameters and isometrics
• Transferring the view via clipboard to another application for further processing.

Extensive introduction and introductory tutorials, collections of pictures.

Validation according to EN ISO 10211:2007, Validation according to EN ISO 10077-2:2003

Further study of theory and background and primary concepts together with related literature.

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