3 Start and Customizing
3.1 The Main Widget
The MathTools main widget serves to switch to the different groups of tools described in the following sections.
3.2 Custom
The default editor and the default browser for the MathTools Help can be set.
In the entry [Store Directory] a directory shall be selected according to your preferences where MathTools will store plots, model files and from where the latter ones could be loaded.
Also the path to the Python exectuable must be set here. Please note that at least Python 3.10 is required for symbolic analyses in the [Slope] tool.
To calculate trajectories in the [Slope] tool one of two Runge-Kutta solvers can be seleted as the ’prime’ solver.
Please consider the speed of your computer – Runge-Kutta 2nd-Order is faster.
Note: There are some defaults set.
Such it should not be necessary to customize the settings.
If an error message occurs while trying to edit, browse, store or load please select the executables and settings according to your system!
3.3 Help
Opens a new window with the selected browser (see Custom) and shows the PDF version of this manual.