SciTools Support

Our goal for the Understand editor was to provide an IDE equal to the top programming editors, but also give it lots of features for maintaining and underst...

*** Note: Are you using Understand 7.1? If so, check out our new and improved highlighting feature here: https://scitools.freshdesk.com/a/solutions/articl...

As I walk around meeting with our engineers, I notice they will frequently have dozens of files open in Understand’s GUI. They use the “Window Selector” to ...

To select a block of text spanning several lines in the editor just hold down the “Alt” key ("Option" key on Mac) while selecting the text Y...

Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. ...

Since build 516 if you are editing a code file you can quickly switch to the corresponding header file and back again with Ctrl+’ (apostrophe).

By default our graphics framework on *nix is optimized for drawing locally. To optimize the render for an exported display, launch Understand with the follo...

In Understand, architectures are a way to map an abstract hierarchy onto your source code files. Architectures can be a great way to reorganize your code in...

There are several tools we have made in the past that we no longer develop, specifically TrackBack and SourcePublisher. These tools can still be...

There is a known issue that happens with Understand when the program “Dell Backup and Recovery” (DBR) is installed. The way DBR creates overlay icons causes...