Working with the Information Window
Your template-based product uses the Information window to display many different types of information about your model, simulation, and so on. In addition to just viewing information about your model, you can perform a variety of operations in the Information window. For example, you can display additional information about the current object's parent or child, print the information, display information about a different object in the database, and more.
You can display information about each object in your modelling database, including parts, geometry, motion, and markers. Learn about markers.
You can view the information about an object currently on the screen or any object in the database, including the main window or dialog boxes.
When you display information about the objects in your modeling database, your template-based product displays information specific to that type of object. For example, when you display information about a rigid body in your model, your template-based product displays information about its material content, inertial properties, initial conditions, orientation, velocity, and more. When you display information about a motion, your template-based product displays information about the type of motion it is, its function, and time derivative.
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You may want to zoom in on the object on the screen to more easily place the cursor over just that object.
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from the Information tool stack. The Database Navigator appears.
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Select OK.
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To display object information once you've displayed the Information window, do one of the following:
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If the object name already appears in the Information window, place the text cursor in the name of the object, and then select Apply.
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Each object in the database has an object that owns it, called its parent, and many objects own other objects, called their children. The top-level objects in the database are models, plots, and interface objects, called gui objects. These objects do not have parents. You can display information about the parent or children of the object currently displayed in the Information window.
If an object has a parent, the type of parent it has appears in the Information window under the heading Parent Type and the name of the parent is placed in front of the name of the object in the Object Name heading. For example, for the part LINK_2, its parent type and name appear in the Information window, as shown next:
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In the Information window, select Children.
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When information about an object is displayed in the Information window, you can access that object's modify dialog box so you can modify the object.
Each time you request information in the Information window, your template-based product adds the information to the bottom of the Information window without removing the current information. You can remove all current information.
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You can save the contents of the Information window to a text file.
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In the Information window, select Save to File.
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In the File Name text box, enter the file name.
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Select Open.
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You can display any text file in the Information window. You will find this helpful if you want to display an information file that you saved or you are creating a demonstration of your model using a command file and you want to display information about a particular object or aspect of the demonstration.
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In the Information window, select Read from File. dialog box appears.
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Select Open.
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In the File Name text box, you can either:
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Browse for a file: right-click the File Name text box, and then select Browse to display the File Selection dialog box.
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Select OK.
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You can copy any text in the Information window for use in another window, dialog box, or application. You cannot paste or delete any text in the window.
By default, the Information window displays only a part's parent and type. To display more information about the part, you can turn on verbose mode. When you turn on verbose mode, the Information window displays the children of the object, its geometry, whether or not comments are associated with it, and its attributes, such as its color and visibility.
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Select the Verbose check box.
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You can use wildcards to narrow any search, set the type of information displayed in a window, such as the Database Navigator or the log file, or specify a name of an object in a dialog box.