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.
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 ( ⇔ ).
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: