Grid Manager Tool

Grid Manager Pop-up Menu
Grid Manager Buttons

The Grid Manager contains many functions to manipulate whole grids, but generally not the gridded values inside them. Using the Grid Manager you can:

Control the Spatial Editor display while selecting a grid to edit
Copy model-derived grids into your forecast
Create new grids from scratch
Delete a grid
Copy a grid
Paste a grid
Split a grid in time
Fragment a grid in time
Assign Default Value to every gridpoint in the grid
Stretch the time over which a grid is valid
Interpolate new grids based on the grids that already exist
Run selected Smart Tools
Send single ISC (intersite coordination grid)

All of this functionality is accomplished by a single tool - the Grid Manager Tool, which is always available. The table below lists each action and the function it performs. The table substitutes the abbreviation MB1 and MB2 for Mouse Button 1 and Mouse Button 2, respectively.

Grid Manager Tool Actions

Actions	Function
MB1 Click	Sets the Spatial Editor time and makes the selected grid visible and editable in the Spatial Editor. All other grids are made invisible.
MB2 Click	Sets the Spatial Editor time and makes the selected grid visible and editable in the Spatial Editor. The visibility of other grids remains unchanged.
MB1 Drag	Selects one or more weather elements/grids for population, interpolation, or deletion. Also deselects all other previously selected weather elements
MB2 Drag	Stretches the selected grid's start time to the left or the grid's end time to the right. Allow the user to change the valid time of a grid.

Grid Manager Pop-up Menu

In addition to the main Grid Manager edit tool actions, the Mouse Button 3 (MB3) pop-up menu offers many more edit operations. When using these operations, keep in mind that they apply to a single grid (or place-holder for a grid) - the grid under the cursor - when you perform the operation. Operations include deleting, fragmenting, splitting, copying, and pasting a grid. Other edit operations permit assigning values to a grid, creating a grid from scratch, and running selected smart tools on the grid. Refer to the Grid Manager Button 3 Popups documentation for more details.

Grid Manager Buttons

The buttons that control the Grid Manager are on the left of the GFE ToolBar. These buttons control various display modes of the Grid Manager and Spatial Editor, as well as specifically controlling the layout of the GFE. Refer to the GFE Toolbar documentation for more details.