Running GeomConverter
The SLIC simulator package uses a low-level XML data format while the reconstruction uses a smaller, more targetted format called the "compact description". Using a compact geometry in the simulator requires converting it to LCDD.
- Follow the instructions in Building+org.lcsim+software to build the GeomConverter package.
- Run the application
which will display a simple GUI for running the application.
maven run
Building a distribution
- Go to the GeomConverter directory and build a distribution.
maven dist
- Unzip the distribution one directory below the current one. (This example has a hardcoded version number.)
cd .. tar -zxvf GeomConverter/target/GeomConverter-0.3.tar.gz
- Run the compact to LCDD converter.
The output LCDD file can be used as input to SLIC, which might look like this.
GeomConverter-0.3/bin/GeomConverter compact.xml det.lcdd
The full syntax for running GeomConverter isslic -g det.lcdd -z -n
If no output file is specified the GUI will be displayed. If no format is given the format will be guessed based on the output file.GeomConverter-0.3/bin/GeomConverter \[-o format\] \[<infile> \[<outfile>\]\]