Installing one of the precompiled releases is the easiest way to
obtain ArtiSynth for running demo programs or some existing models.
To do this, go to www.artisynth.org/downloads, download the distribution you want, and
unzip it in an appropriate location on your computer.
5.1 Running from a terminal window
Once ArtiSynth is downloaded and unzipped, it can be
run from a terminal window.
To do this, open a terminal
window, set the current directory to <ARTISYNTH_HOME>, and
run the command bin/artisynth:
> cd <ARTISYNTH_HOME>
> bin/artisynth
If you place <ARTISYNTH_HOME>/bin in your PATH environment
variable (Section 14.1), then ArtiSynth can be
run from a terminal window with the simple command
> artisynth
regardless of the current directory.
Details on how to load and run demo models are given in
Section 7.
A precompiled ArtiSynth distribution can also be imported into an
integrated development environment (IDE), such as Eclipse, to
facilitate compilation and execution. To import ArtiSynth into
Eclipse, follow the instructions in
Section 13.2, using <ARTISYNTH_HOME>
as the project directory.
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