The Xplo User Manual

This user manual is under progress, new section may be added without notice. fc-22.11.2019, fc-11.5.2020

• Plant Architecture background
• Context: the AMAPstudio software suite
• Purposes of Xplo
• Main concepts (ArchiTree, ArchiNode, standard and free attributes, topology, geometry, links, scales, orders…)
• How to install Xplo
• How to start Xplo
• The two ways of using Xplo
  • The Xplo plant architecture editor
  • Using an integrated plant architectural growth model
• Main features
  • Session / Project / Step
  • Saving and restoring Projects
  • 3D view
  • Browser view
  • Selection
  • Inspector
  • Geometry
  • Colorizer
  • Architecture exploration
  • Export
• Other features
  • Launch time options
  • Request more memory
  • Scripting interactively from the user interface with Groovy
  • Scripting simulations with the integrated models in Java
  • Organizing the Windows layout
  • Screenshot
  • Animation
  • Rendering
  • Log files
  • Memory monitoring
• Notes about Xplo's technical architecture (MTG, Capsis kernel, sketch library...)
• References
• Maintenance