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Presentation Designer

Presentation designer allows to prepare a presentation of results, preview them and export to Microsoft Power Point. It is possible to create slides, customize layout and positions of items.

Press Reports - Add - Presentation from the tree to launch Presentation Designer:

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Presentation designer is divided into the following items:

1. Ribbon

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Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - save a report profile;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - save a report profile with a different name;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - close a presentation designer window;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - generate a full presentation;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - save a presentation in MS Power Point by the defined path.

Settings

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - Report Settings;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - Unit System;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - Legend Settings;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - Number Format;

Axis - show an axis for X and Y coordinate of the slide;

Layout - set the Layout settings;

Content area - show all margins and a working area of the selected slide;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - views manager;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - components manager;

New Slide

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add an empty slide;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - open a window to create tables or plots for the selected loads and Stress option is selected;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - open a window to create tables or plots for the selected loads and Stress and Displacement option is selected;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - open a window to create tables or plots for the selected loads and Displacement option is selected.

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Select loads using Multiple Load Selector. Pick Categories option and Include option from respective lists. Select View to be used in plots and press OK button. For each selected load separate slide will be created.

Slide layout

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A Layout is a position of elements on the slide. Selected layout will be applied to each newly created slide.

Add Plot

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a contour plot;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add output vector criteria plot;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add criterial plot;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add an output vector contour plot.

Add Tables

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add an expand/extreme table;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a component extreme table (over selections);

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add an flow table (over loads) table.

Other items

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - display a user defined selection with the defined View;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - insert an image from a file;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - open window to add new check tables:

AddCheckTables

Select the standard and check from the respective lists to add tables. Depending on the check type (fatigue summation, plate buckling or custom) different windows will be opened:

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a check table;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a check component table;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a check flow expand table.

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - open window to add new check plots:

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Select the standard and check from the respective lists to add plots. Depending on the check type (fatigue summation, plate buckling or custom) different windows will be opened:

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a criteria plot;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a contour check plot;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a beam member diagram.

Plots and tables will be added to the selected a slide.

It is possible to export already created in the project check plots and tables. Press Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier to open window:

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Select plots and tables to be imported and press OK button. Tables and plots will be added to the selected slide.

Shape

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add an ellipse item to the current slide;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a rectangle item to the current slide;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add a text item to the current slide.

Edit selected item

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Line color - select the color of the border;

Fill color - select the color to fill the item.

Colors selector

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Transparent line color - use transparent color for the border line;

Transparent fill color - use transparent color for the item body;

Width - the width of the item;

Height - the height of the item;

Line thickness - the thickness of the border;

Text - type the text to be displayed inside of the rectangle. Available only for the text item;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add line item to current slide;

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Line color - select the color of the line;

Start corner - select the corner where the line starts (top left, bottom right etc.);

Width - the width of the line boundaries;

Height - the height of the line boundaries;

Line thickness - the thickness of the line;

Arrow on start - draw an arrow on the start of the line;

Arrow on end - draw an arrow on the end of the line;

Note: It is possible to change the line slope by operating with the height and width values;

Slide

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Set the title for the slide. Enabled only for the selected slide.

2. Report Content

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Each slide can contain tables, plots, shapes, text, model plot and custom image.

Note: Items position on the slide corresponds to the visibility of the item on the slide. The first item is on the top of all other. Change items order to move the item to the front or to the back.

First page item contains information about an engineer and customer details, company logos etc. To change the first page information press Edit from the context menu:

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First page settings window will be displayed:

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The first page has its own layout that can be modified in the Layout settings.

Item context menu commands.

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Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - generate current item and all subitems;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - edit current item;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - copy current item with all subitems;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - paste copied item;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - remove current item and all subitems;

Add slide - add an empty slide to the structure;

Apply to all Selection - change the selection for all tables and plots on the slide:

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Apply to all View ID - change the view for plotting by selecting from the displayed list:

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Apply to all Load - change load for all tables (except the flow tables) and plots on the slide using Single Load Selector;

Copy slide to multiple loads - multiply structure and layout of current slide to the selected loads using Multiple Load Selector;

Flow tables will be pasted with the original parameters.

Copy slide layout - copy all locations and sizes of the items of current slide;

Paste slide layout - set layout to the respective items positions;

Items position on slide - set layout to the respective items positions:

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- 1 row x 1 column - one position on the slide. Such layout can be used for a detailed plot or a model setup general plot;

- 2 rows x 1 column - two positions on the slide. Can be used for a flow table results;

- 1 row x 2 columns - similar to previous option except items are narrower and longer;

- 1 row and 1 row x 2 columns - three positions per page. Can be used to create one plot and 2 extreme tables;

- 1 row x 2 columns and 1 row - similar as previous option except for the position of the wider item;

- 2 rows x 2 columns - 4 items per slide. Can be used to display 4 plots at one slide;

- 2 plots x 2 tables - special layout to place 2 plots next to each other and 2 extreme tables to one slide:

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Content context menu commands.

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It is possible to preview the location and size of the selected item on the slide. Hold right mouse click button and move the item to the necessary place. To change the size of the item, move the mouse to the bottom right corner and change the size manually:

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Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - generate current item ;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - edit current item;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - copy current item;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - remove current item;

Send front/back - change the overlaying of elements. The order of the items of the slide will be changed respectively.

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Set item size and position - open the window to set the item size and the position manually:

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Note: Turn on the Axis option on the ribbon and X Y axes will be displayed on the top left corner of the slide.

Copy item size and position - copy the item size and position to clipboard;

Paste item size - set the size for the item from clipboard;

Paste item position - set the position of the item from clipboard;

Paste item size and position - set the size and the position for the item from the clipboard.

3. Predefined reports and message window:

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Predefined reports - already existing in the project report designers and presentation designers. It is possible to include all plots and tables from existing reports to current by moving the respective items.

In the message window, all actions of the program (results reading etc.) are displayed.

Presentation Layout

Layout is divided into three categories:

General settings - text styles, background image etc.;

First Slide Settings - custom header, footer and content settings for the first page slide;

Content settings - custom header and footer settings for the rest slides;

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Note: Layout settings are applied to all presentation designers not only in the current project.

It is possible to share layout settings between the different computers or keep few templates for different projects. Press Save as button to export all settings to the file. Press Load to import layout settings from the file. File extension ".soap" is used.

General settings

Margin left / right - set the distance from the left/right side of the slide to the slide content.

Text styles - define the text font for the predefined text styles. Press button opposite to necessary text style to change the font settings:

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Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - set the default font settings for each text style;

Table Border color - set a custom color of the table borders;

Background - use a background image to be displayed on the slides. Press Set button to select an image from the file. Press Clear button to clear the background image;

Show background on first page - use the same image for the first slide;

First Slide Background - set the different background image for the first slide;

First slide settings

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Note: The first slide settings are applied only to the first slide. For the rest slides the Content settings are used.

Header / footer height - set the distance from the top / bottom side of the slide to the slide content;

Add - select the item to be added (customer or engineer details, current date, text, project number etc.);

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add the selected item to header;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add the selected item to content;

Presentation Designer | Help | SDC Verifier - add selected item to footer.

Edit - change the selected item type and the text style from the respective lists.

Generated first page

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Content settings

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Content settings are similar to the First slide settings. The only difference is that it is not possible to add an item to the content but only to header and footer.