To use GID just for plotting, skip directly to the 'Very simple usage' section. It is strongly adviced to do this if you are new to tochnog.
To use GID for mesh generation and plotting, continue with this section and with the 'Simple usage' section.
Otherwise continue with this section and with the 'Advanced usage' section.
Tochnog-GID is a separate input file generator for tochnog, which you can use in combination with GID. For Tochnog-GID you need to have TclTk also. See the links at our homepage where to get TclTk; version 8.* is strongly recommended, because it is much more fast then the older versions.
After installation of the Tochnog source distribution file do the following to install Tochnog-GID:
Make a tochnog.gid directory in your gid_directory directory (where gid_directory is the directory where you installed GID).
Copy the tn/gid/tochnog.mat, tn/gid/tochnog.prb, and tn/gid/tochnog.bas files to the gid_directory/ tochnog.gid directory.
Set in the tn/gid/tochnog.tcl file the tnpath variable to the absolute path of your tn installation directory. Default the tnpath variable is set to the tn directory in your home directory, which is ok if you perform a normal installation. (Do not copy the tn/gid/tochnog.tcl to gid_directory/ tochnog.gid).
Set the correct path to the tochnog.tcl in the tngid.bat. Default it is set to tn/gid/tochnog.tcl which is ok if you performed a normal installation of tochnog.
Make a link so that you can run Tochnog-GID from everywhere:
Copy the tochnog_unx.bat file to tochnog.bat in the gid_directory/ tochnog.gid directory.
Copy the tochnog_dos.bat file to tochnog.bat in the gid_directory/ tochnog.gid directory.
Tochnog-GID takes some of its help texts from the html distribution of the manuals. So consider also installing the html distribution file; see the download section at our homepage. After installation of the html distribution file from the homepage you will find in the tn directory the following: