The cube form works like the browser form: first you set some search criteria (or none, if you want to load all the data) and then you click the Apply button to load the data. If you have a lot of data, the initial loading phase might be long. Once the data is in memory, any subsequent manipulation is nearly instantaneous. The lower part of the form features a pivot grid instead of a plain grid. The Pivot grid can show you one "slice" of the multi-dimensional cube at a time. Select what you want to see by dragging dimensions in the Columns and Rows areas around the grid, or use the Map Builder (Tools/Map Builder). If you use more than one dimensions, you'll be able to "drill down" in the grid by clicking the '+' buttons. Click the chart button on a column header to open a chart window with the column data. From there you can change the chart type and print it out. The charting functionality is based on the standard TChart Delphi component.
You can also enable and disable single measures (the quantities that you see in the grid cells) through the tools in the lower part of the form. If you want to add data to the cube, you just click the Search button, set some different search criteria (or load back a previously saved search set) and click Apply.
No checks are possible to avoid putting duplicate data in the cube, so it is your responsibility to craft your search criteria carefully if you want to use the incremental loading feature. When you want to reset the cube and start anew, select the Reset Cube menu item from the Tools menu.
You can save a cube with all its data, either in binary of xml format, by selecting File/Save Cube. The cube can later be reloaded from the file (through the Load Cube item in the same menu). Youc an also save just the map (File/Save Map) and reload it later (File/Load Map). A map contains measures, dimensions, structure of rows and columns, sort state, but no data. You can also print the cube, or part of it, by means of the menu items under File/Print.
The View menu contains options to modify the appearance of the pivot grid: you can show empty rows and columns (which are hidden by default), you can rotate the grid by swapping row and column dimensions, decide if and how to display totals and sub-totals. The View menu contains also commands to expand and collaps all the expandable cells in the grid at once.
To complete the array of available tools, you can export the pivot grid in several different formats (Tools/Export), and search for a string in the cube (Tools/Find in Map).