Excitation Editor Command Panel

The command panel in the top of the Excitation Editor window allows you to load excitations from an XML file, save them to files, or create a new set of excitations for the current model. Details about the specific commands are described below:

• Load…: When you press this button, you are prompted to browse for an XML file containing controls. Upon selecting the file, a filtering dialog box appears (see Selection Filtering Window), from which you can select the controls to be displayed in the Excitation Editor for inspection and editing.

• Save: Modified excitations, if any, are saved to the file that they came from

• New:This option is available only when a model is currently loaded into the application. Picking this option creates a new set of muscle excitations, with the following properties:
  • Time is between [0.0-1.0]
  • Min value of 0.0
  • Max value of 1.0
  • Excitation value of 0.1

After a new set of muscle excitations is created, the filtering window appears for you to select the excitation patterns you want to edit visually in the Excitation Editor.

• Save Layout… and Load Layout…: Due to the effort put into laying out excitations in the Excitation Editor (what muscles show and in which column), OpenSim offers the ability to save the layout to an external file (SaveLayout…) and to read a saved layout back into OpenSim (LoadLayout…).
• Help: Hovering over this button brings up a bubble help with short description of the buttons and mouse clicks needed to perform various operations including zooming in/out, panning, selection, box-selection and deselection. Clicking on the button makes the help info persistent (stays up until closed by the user) as shown below.