Isight Interfaces

Isight includes several interfaces providing visual and flexible tools for creating, executing, retrieving simulation-based design processes, accessing functions, and developing extensions.

Related Topics
About the Gateways
Working with Components
Using the Command Line Client
Customizing Models

Isight provides the following interfaces:

  • Design Gateway. You use the Design Gateway to create and manipulate Isight models.

  • Runtime Gateway. You use the Runtime Gateway to control model or component execution and to view results.

  • Component Editors. Components are the building blocks of an Isight model. You use component editors to configure component information (e.g., design variables, responses) for the model you are creating. For general information about including components in an Isight model, see Working with Components. For more detailed information about editing individual components, see the Isight Component Guide.

  • Command Line Client. You use the Command Line Client to access many of the Isight functions through a simple, text-based interface.

  • Isight Software Development Kit. You use the Isight Software Development Kit (SDK) to develop your own extensions such as applications, components, plug-ins, and units. For more information, see Introduction to Extension Development in the Isight Development Guide. You can use customization scripts via the Isight SDK to manipulate the model or you can create a model from scratch, accessing the objects and methods of the SDK indirectly through a scripting language (e.g., Python) instead of directly in compiled Java code.