Installing questions for the Visual Editor for the MCNP5 RSICC distribution:
The Linux/UNIX executable is available with version 1.4
When the Visual Editor executable is created, it compiles and links with the MCNP Fortran code so that the memory structures are available to the graphical interface. This means that the Visual Editor has a complete internal copy of MCNP that it uses. The Visual Editor does not run the executable distributed by RSICC. The Visual Editor executable was created with an older version of the Fortran than that distributed in the release of version 5. Because of this, you should not use the Visual Editor to make quality affecting MCNP runs, instead run MCNP outside the Visual Editor.
The vised.defaults file contains the locations of xsdir and the material library files used by the Visual Editor in creating materials and for storing materials in a material library. To create this file in the Visual Editor, go into Data->Materials, and then select Files. After filling in the 5 text entries indicating the location of the material libraries and xsdir, select Apply to create the vised.defaults file.
Vised.defaults refers to 5 files, 4 material files and xsdir. It is recommended that you create a directory on you computer such as "C:\vislib" to hold these 5 files. Note that this directory will hold a copy of the xsdir file installed by RSICC. We hope to fix this limitation in the next release.
The RSICC distribution does not include the standard material libraries used by the vised.defaults files. You can download these files here and place them in the vislib directory discussed above:
To download stndrd.n: Right click and select "Save Target As" to download.Typically, this is placed in the same directory as the executable. However, with the RSICC version, for Windows 2000, when you select "Apply" this file is placed in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\NT". This seems to work so you can just leave it there.
The Visual Editor uses xsdir in two different ways, to run MCNP and to access the cross sections for creating materials.
First it needs xsdir to run the MCNP compiled as part of the Visual Editor. The Visual Editor is running MCNP whenever you do "Run", "Particle Display", "Tally Plots", "Cross section plots", or "3D View". When running MCNP for the above options, xsdir should be placed wherever it needs to be to run MCNP on your system. The RSICC installation should take care of this and place it here (C:\Program Files\LANL\MCNPDATA) by default.
For accessing the cross sections, the xsdir file also must be specified in the "vised.defaults" file. Because of a bug in the Visual Editor, it can not refer to the default directory used for running the code. Instead, it is recommended that you place a copy of xsdir in the directory "c:\vislib".