Navigation:  Some Concepts > Custom Element and Library

You can create your own element with the predefined elements, and save it (as .fce file) for future usage. The customized elements can also have their own behavior, that means you can create some functional widgets. You can also pack multiple custom elements as a library, which is a folder actually. The figure below shows the directory structure that store libraries and elements:

The Element1 and Element2 are placed under the root directory, so they belongs to the "Default" library. Element3, Element4 and Element5 are placed under the "Test" folder under root directory, so they belongs to the "Test" library.

Remarks: all elements (no matter where they are placed) belongs to the "All" library.

There is a Custom Element category on the left of the main window. You can use it as a manager view of custom elements and libraries.

Here you can add / remove / rename library and switch the current display library. You can create new custom element from the current selected content in the plot, or load existed .fce file as the custom element.

The newly created custom element will be listed in the Custom Element category. You can then use it like other elements.