Input Keyboard Tricks in Flownex

Do you ever find that the units on your Flownex input don’t match what you’re inputting? But you don’t notice until you’ve already typed in the value? There’s a trick to avoid redundant typing! After typing in our input we simply hold CTRL while changing the unit.

Here’s what it looks like if we hold Ctrl while choosing a new unit for a diameter input.

If we instead choose the unit while not holding Ctrl we see the units convert automatically.

If you’re more of a keyboard commando and like to avoid mouse-clicks we can also type in the units ourselves.

Some helpful keyboard shortcuts when entering units for areas, volumes, etc…

Alt + 0176 = ° (Superscript “0” used for degrees)

Alt + 0178 = ² (Superscript “2”)

Alt + 0179 = ³ (Superscript “3”)

Other Useful Input Keyboard Shortcuts

We can specify that an input is a global parameter by using “$” in the property input. Here is another blog post that goes into more detail on how to get the most out of Global Parameters.