Preparation

In this session we will look at the various ways in which you can streamline how you work with Metview so that you can perform common tasks as quickly as possible.

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Icon Drawers

At the bottom of the Metview user interface is an area known as the icon drawers. This is a tabbed area where you can store icons which you will use often. Some sample drawers are supplied when you first start up Metview, but you can remove these and/or add your own. Have a look to confirm that the same set of icons is available in these drawers no matter which folder you are currently looking at in Metview.

Here are some suggestions of genuinely useful icons you can store here. In many cases, you will have already created such icons during other parts of the course, so you can just find them instead of creating them from scratch!

• in your current folder (not inside a drawer), create some Geographic View icons and set them up to view particular areas in your favourite projection. Drag and drop them into the My Views drawer (or create your own). Notice that the original icon remains in its folder - a copy of it has been made inside the drawer
• create some useful Contouring icons and drop them into the My Visdefs drawer (or create your own). Some suggestions:
  • shade from blue to red using 20 levels between the min and max of the data
  • plot grid points
• create some useful Symbol Plotting icons and drop them into the My Visdefs drawer (or create your own)
• create a Legend icon which plots a vertical legend down the right-hand side of the page and drop it into the My Visdefs drawer (or create your own)