Overview
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 first.
Building and Running GeomConverter
- Follow the instructions in Building org.lcsim software to build the GeomConverter package.
- Run the application
This command displays a simple GUI for running the application where the target format can be selected along with the Input and Output files.
maven run
Building and Running a GeomConverter distribution
- Go to the GeomConverter directory and build a distribution in place.
maven -Drun.install=`pwd` run:install
- Run the compact to LCDD converter using the script.
./bin/GeomConverter -o lcdd compact.xml det.lcdd
Windows Users
Windows users need to run GeomConverter.bat from the Windows command prompt instead of the GeomConverter script.
Command Syntax
The full syntax for running GeomConverter is
GeomConverter [-o format] [<infile> [<outfile>]]
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.
Running in SLIC
The output LCDD file det.lcdd can be used as input to SLIC, which might look like this.
slic -g det.lcdd -z -n