var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "We want to enable you to build virtual editions of your academic or organizational units. The CVE distributions so far include the NMSU CS department within Science Hall and the University of Idaho CS Department in the Janssen Engineering Building.

The Facilities Office at most colleges and universities have CAD data files with more accurate representations of buildings. These help a Lot if you can get them, however, they are often not public for security reasons. CVE enables you to do a virtual CS department with less, starting from floor plans. Often you do not need to model the entire building. For example, at NMSU we are mainly interested in the 1st Floor, while at Idaho we needed portions of every storey in the building.

Before modeling an entire building, you may want to model just a single room to get the hang of it. CVE's first room was a NMSU's Programming Languages, Environments, and Automated Software Engineering Lab, located in Science Hall Room 167, a 12'x20' room (ceiling approximately 9' high) with a whiteboard, 4-5 workstations, and a printer. This demo went through many revisions before giving way to a department-wide demo."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }