Improvements in Documentation module
Contents
- Navigation panel is synchronized to current page
- New ways to modify item properties
- Copy window settings
- Simple way to add pictures and texts
- More convenient printing to PDF
- Document – new option
- Logo
- New line
- Table – new options
- Text box – new options and renewed dialog
- Structural data wizard
- Load data wizard
- Result data wizard
In FEM-Design 19 Documentation module is improved a lot. New functionalities and objects are implemented to speed up the process of documenting the project.
New functionalities
Navigation panel is synchronized to current page
Items that are on the current page have grey background in the navigation panel.
Whenever the current page is changed, it is automatically made sure that its items are visible on the navigiation panel.
New ways to modify item properties
There are two new ways to modifiy properties of documentation items:
- double clicking the item on the current page
- ALT+ double click the item in the navigation panel
Copy window settings
To make easier copy of window properties from one graphical window to other graphical window(s) in one step, Copy window settings and Apply window settings commands are added to the menu that pops up when User right-clicks on an item in the navigation panel.
Step 1: Highlight the graphical window to copy settings from.
Step 2: Right click
Step 3: Press Copy window settings
Step 4: Highlight graphical windows to copy window settings to
Step 5: Right click
Step 6: Select in the dialog setting types to apply and press OK.
Simple way to add pictures and texts
In FD19 pictures and text can be pasted directly from the clipboard to the documentation by CTRL+V.
More convenient printing to PDF
Even if a document contains sections with different paper size/orientation/margin, it still will be printed into one pdf file with correct settings.
New or improved objects
Document – new option
User can set the vertical space between items in the Document dialog for better organization. The following picture shows an example how the Vertical spacing between items affects the documentation.
Logo
Logo, the new drawing object can be added to the title block to display the company logo. It can be created and modified by launching Draw/Logo command.
User has to specify the file path to the required image, then they can place it anywhere on the page. Finally a new title block has to be registered that contains the new logo, too.
New line
For more flexible documentation, from FD19 documentation items are placed next to each other if there is enough space. To avoid this User can insert New lines between documentation items.
Table – new options
There are new ways to assign objects to tables: At List objects… beside All/Current selection and User defined filters, now axes and storeys can be assigned to the tables. This way table will contain data only for objects that belong to the assigned storey or axis.
Text box – new options and renewed dialog
To make easier the identification of a text box in the navigation panel, a title can be added to it. It also can be displayed in the document by checking Display title option.
Similarly to tables, Fit width to content option is available from text boxes, too. If it is checked, the width will be set according to the longest line in the text.
Wizard
New documentation wizard makes possible to generate a set of graphical windows and tables by a few clicks.
Three types of wizard dialogs are available for
- structural data
- load data
- results
Structural data wizard
There are two ways to launch it:
Way 1: Highlight an existing Structure graphical window (later called Template), then press Wizard.
Way 2: Highlight any other type of documentation item, press Wizard, then select Structure from the dialog
The wizard dialog consists of 4 main parts, which contain the following data:
- Structure parts: Whole structure, storeys, axes and user defined filters.
- Graphical windows tab: Object types and views
- Table tab: Tables of structural input data
- List: Graphical windows and tables already selected by the user
Step 1: Select at least one structure part
Step 2: Select graphical windows [optional]
- select object type(s) to display
- set view in one of the following ways
- Automatically (if Template window was selected, its view is used, otherwise the default view)
- Manually in a dialog
- Predefined view from the list
- Press Select button -> A set of graphical windows are added to the List
Step 3: Select tables [optional]
- Highlight required tables
- Highlight required tables
- Press Select button -> A set of tables are added to the List
Step 4: Press Apply button, if there is at least one item in the List ->
All graphical windows and tables in the List are added to the documentation.
Load data wizard
There are two ways to launch it:
Way 1: Highlight an existing Load graphical window (later called Template), then press Wizard.
Way 2: Highlight any other type of documentation item, press Wizard, then select Load from the dialog
It works in exactly the same way as Structure input wizard, but instead of object types, load cases have to be selected.
Result data wizard
It works in a similar way as Structure input wizard, but instead of object types results have to be selected.
Further difference is that view setting dialog is available by pressing Set view… button.