Set up the workbench

EcoClass screenshot at initial startup When ECOCLASS is run for the very first time, or when you created a completely new working directory ("workspace") at startup, the workbench consists of three subwindows. The Navigator panel in the upper left is the place to manage your projects and product systems. The editor panel to the right is initially empty or contains a welcome message - later, it will contain the graphical editor to edit your product systems. The panel in the lower left is initially empty and will later display additional information about the product system.

Graphics Panels

 EcoClass screenshot with graphics panels To calculate the emissions and display the results you have to create one or two graphics panels. You may skip this step in the beginning and start immediately to build projects and product systems. The actual calculation, however can only be started from within a graphics panel that has to be created in the way described here.

To create the graphics panel(s)

The graphics panels are by default located in a "Tab Group" within a separate frame (called a "view"). The size of the view can be changed by dragging the frame border, where the mouse pointer changes to a small double arrow ( ⇔ ).

Select and move the graphics panels

You can select a graphics panel by clicking on its tab. The graphics panels can be positioned almost arbitrarily on the workbench by the following procedure:

To move complete tab groups instead of single tabs ("views"), simply do a right click on one of the tabs and select "Move → Tab Group"). Then proceed as described above.