The Designs Space Explorer provides design evaluation through different tools:
To enter the Designs Space panel, click on the Designs Space tab identified
by the icon
or select Assessment|Designs Space from the main menu.
The Designs Space is divided in five regions:
Desktop: the container of all the Designs Space internal frames (including tables, charts and tools).
Buttons: buttons to create/visualize tables, charts and other tools such as doe, mcdm and rsm (on the left side).
ToolBar: buttons with the most common operations that affect the Designs Space internal frames (placed on the top).
Properties: panel with properties to fully customize the selected internal frame (on the right side).
Log: panel showing information of the selected internal frame (in the bottom).
Actions on Designs Space Frames
Actions common to all frames are:
Resize the internal frames: to enlarge or to make smaller the internal frame left mouse click on a frame border and drag it.
Change the layout of the internal frames (from the ToolBar or in the Design Pop-up menu)
Iconify the internal frames:
select iconify widget in the frame window
choose Iconify All in the ToolBar or in the Design Pop-up menu
Close the internal frames:
select close widget in the frame window
choose Close All in the ToolBar or in the Design Pop-up menu
It is possible to customize the desktop through the Designs Space Preferences Dialog.
Designs Space Pop Up Menu
Clicking with the right button of the mouse on the desktop opens a pop-up menu. The pop-up menu contains the items to perform some of the operations described above, to create the charts and to select directly the charts being created (from the Window item).
For more detailed descriptions of the operations see sections Buttons and ToolBar