Settings

The following settings can be defined in SDC Verifier:

• Unit System;
• Legend Settings;
• Custom Legends (for Report Designer only);
• Number Formats;
• Standard Custom Settings;
• Edit Library.

Unit System

Model Unit system is applied to the conversion units in the check calculations. It is used in the following predefined standards: API RP 2A LRFD and WSD, AISC89, DIN15018, FEM 1.001, Eurocode 3 Fatigue, Eurocode3 Members Checks, Norsok N004 and ISO 19902.

Display Unit system is used to display plots/tables and data in a report.

Execute Settings - Main - Unit System from the ribbon:

Usage of the unit system: In ISO 19902 standard tubes should meet the following requirements: thickness ≥6mm and Yield > 500 MPa:

Legend Settings

Legend Settings define a legend style for different results categories using the following parameters: Mode, Min/Max, Number of Levels and Legend Format.

Execute Settings - Main - Legend from the ribbon:

• Mode - represents how the legend is displayed;
• Min/Max - allows to set bottom and top values to be shown on the plot legend (can be set all types of the Mode except Automatic and User Defined modes);
• Number of Levels - represent number of levels that are displayed on the plot legend;
• Legend Format - show numbers in a legend in general or exponent format.

It is possible to modify settings in the table one by one or edit few at once by using Set to Selected group.

Legend settings can be saved to the library and used in another projects by pressing . Press to load from the library.

Press Set as Default and current legend settings will be stored as default.

Press Restore from Default to load your default settings.

Press Reset to load program initial default settings.

Custom Legends

Custom Legend Settings allow to configure individual legend appearance for contour plots. Each legend can have its own title, mode, color scheme, number format, and user-defined level breakpoints.

Execute Home - Create - Custom Legends from the ribbon in Report Designer:

- add custom legend;

- edit selected custom legend;

- rename selected custom legend;

- copy selected custom legend;

- remove selected custom legend.

Custom Legend Settings

Legend

Use Contour Colors for Numbers for Legend - when checked, the numbers displayed on the plot legend will use the contour colors defined in the Legend Colors section instead of the default text color;

Mode - represents how the legend is displayed. The following modes are available:

• Automatic - legend min and max values are determined automatically based on the results;
• Min Max - allows to manually set the bottom (Min) and top (Max) values for the legend range;
• Visible Min Max - legend range is determined based on the visible elements only;
• User Defined - allows to specify individual level breakpoints using the Specified Levels table.

Min - bottom value of the legend range. Enabled only for Min Max mode;

Max - top value of the legend range. Enabled only for Min Max mode;

Number Of Levels - the number of levels (color bands) displayed on the plot legend. The value must be greater than 1 and cannot exceed 100;

Format - defines the number format for legend labels. Available options are General and Exponent (Scientific).

Legend Colors

Legend Colors section defines 6 key colors that are interpolated across the legend levels to produce the full contour color gradient.

Reversed Legend - when checked, the color order is reversed;

Color 1 (Top) - Color 6 (Bottom) - color values for the six control points of the legend color gradient;

Palette... - opens the Femap color palette dialog to visually select a color for the corresponding position. The selected color integer value is then written to the text field;

Press Load to load a predefined color scheme.

Specified Levels

The Specified Levels table is enabled only when the Mode is set to User Defined. It allows to define up to 12 custom breakpoints for the legend.

Each row consists of two fields:

• Level - the contour level number at which the breakpoint is placed. Levels must be in ascending order;
• Value - the result value assigned to that level. Values must be in descending order.

Both Level and Value must be provided for each row. Rows where both fields are left empty are ignored.

Number Formats

Number Formats defines a display style of numbers in the tables for different results categories.

Execute Settings - Main - Number Format from the ribbon:

It is possible to modify settings in the table one by one or edit few at once by using Number Format group.

Number Formats can be saved to the library and used in another projects by pressing . Press to load from the library.

Press Set as Default and current number format settings will be stored as default.

Press Restore from Default to load your default settings.

Press Reset to load program initial default settings.

Number Format for Checks

It is possible to edit number formats settings and modify the parameter category:

Standard Custom Settings

Standard Custom Settings allow to set Input values (Constants, Characteristics, Classifications) of the predefined standards only once that can be later used when creating/editing standards with one button click instead of set values for each Input separately.

Standards - list of implemented standards;

Custom Settings - list of available settings for the selected standard;

Note: By default all the values are used as recommended by the standard (e.g. material factors, coefficients etc.) or the first value in the list if the value depends on the model information (e.g. type of steel, notch class etc.).

Press Reset All to set default values to all standards in the list or Reset to set default values to the selected standard in case it is necessary to return to the recommended values of the standard.

It is possible to create predefined lists of settings. For example if standard uses input that should be filled in model units - it is possible to Export/Import settings to/from the file depending which project is used. In both cases it is possible to select list of standards that will be exported/imported to/from the file.

Numeric types of input can be set by numeric value. Custom types of input will be displayed as a list of options. Example of EN 13001 (2018) standard that uses both numeric and custom Characteristic inputs:

After pressing the button - standard will be filled with the values defined in the Standard Custom Settings.

Note: if some of the settings have already been filled in - warning message will appear and all the settings will be replaced with the default values after confirmation:

Edit Library

The commands from this menu allow removing/importing items for Standards/Legend Settings/Number Formats/Wind Profiles/Shape libraries.

For all 4 libraries except Shape Library, the following dialog is shown. It contains a list of stored items and the description table:

Press to remove selected items.

Press to import standards from the '.sdcs' files that were possible to be exported in old versions of SDC Verifier.

To import items from database file press Import. Press Browse to select the *.db file, check items in the list to import:

Shape Library

Shapes library contains a list of predefined or user defined shapes that can be used in Optimization Tool

- modify defined shape lists:

- add new shape list;

- rename selected shape list;

- remove selected shapes from the current list or a full list from the library;

It is possible to filter shapes by Name, Shape List, Type, Width, Height, Area, Iyy, Izz. Set a filter by shape properties/dimensions directly in a column:

- add selected shapes to predefined shape list;

- clear all filters;

- remove selected shapes from the library. It is possible to remove only shapes that were stored by user;