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QUERY Command

`QUery`

Fire a ray into picture at position of cursor when the left mouse button is clicked. Surface crossings and cell encounters are reported. At each encounter with a nontransparent cell, the track is suspended until a mouse button is pressed. Clicking the left button continues the ray, the middle button terminates it, and +left button starts a new ray. When the ray is completed, the left button starts another ray and the middle button returns to the Sabrina> prompt.

The information is written to the QUERY window.

For 2-D plots, the cell, material, and location at the position of the click are reported. A ray does not proceed further into the model as with the 3-D plots.