NXaperture

Status:

base class, extends NXobject

Description:

A beamline aperture.

Symbols:

No symbol table

Groups cited:

NXgeometry, NXnote

Structure:

@default: (optional) NX_CHAR

Declares which child group contains a path leading to a NXdata group.

It is recommended (as of NIAC2014) to use this attribute to help define the path to the default dataset to be plotted. See https://www.nexusformat.org/2014_How_to_find_default_data.html for a summary of the discussion.

material: (optional) NX_CHAR

Absorbing material of the aperture

description: (optional) NX_CHAR

Description of aperture

GEOMETRY: (optional) NXgeometry

location and shape of aperture

BLADE_GEOMETRY: (optional) NXgeometry

location and shape of each blade

NOTE: (optional) NXnote

describe any additional information in a note*

Hypertext Anchors

Table of hypertext anchors for all groups, fields, attributes, and links defined in this class.

documentation (reST source) anchor

web page (HTML) anchor

/NXaperture/BLADE_GEOMETRY-group

#nxaperture-blade-geometry-group

/NXaperture/description-field

#nxaperture-description-field

/NXaperture/GEOMETRY-group

#nxaperture-geometry-group

/NXaperture/material-field

#nxaperture-material-field

/NXaperture/NOTE-group

#nxaperture-note-group

/NXaperture@default-attribute

#nxaperture-default-attribute

NXDL Source:

https://github.com/FAIRmat-Experimental/nexus_definitions/tree/fairmat/base_classes/NXaperture.nxdl.xml