Exercise 7a: Result Presentation and HyperView Player

Exercise 7a: Result Presentation and HyperView Player

This exercise uses the session file, Exercise_7a.mvw.

Step 1: Load the file Exercise_7a.mvw and export images and videos of the graphics area.

1. Open HyperWorks Desktop and select File > Open > Session to open a session file.

2. Select the file ...\Model-files\ch7\7a-report\Exercise_7a.mvw.

3. Animate the session by selecting,

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Animating the session populates the plot windows with the plot of the measure group.

4. Turn on the display of the Image Capture toolbar by selecting View > Browsers > HyperWorks > Image Capture.

5. Click Capture Graphics Area

to save an image file of the graphics area.

6. Browse to a location to save the file and enter graphics_area as the file name.

7. From the Save as type, select JPEG (*,jpg, *.jpeg).

8. Click Save to save the file.

Open the file using any image viewer on your computer.

9. Click Capture Graphics Area Video

to save the graphics area to a video file.

10. Browse to a location to save the file and enter graphics_area_video as the file name.

11. Click Save to save the file.

This saves an AVI file. Open the file using a program such as Windows Media Player to view the video.

12. Click Capture Dynamic Rectangular Video

to save the graphics area to a video file.

13. Browse to a location to save the file and enter dynamic_rect_video as the file name.

14. Click Save to save the file.

15. Use the left mouse button to draw a rectangle in the graphics area.

16. Use the right mouse button to accept the selection.

17. Open the AVI file.

Notice how only the area of the graphics area selected with the rectangle is shown.

Step 2: Set the Publish Settings and Publish the Session to HTML.

1. To set the defaults for JPEG files, select Preferences > Export Settings > JPG.

2. Set the JPEG quality to 99 and then click OK. 3. To set the defaults for H3D files, select Preferences > Export Settings > H3D.

4. Make sure the options for Results and Animation are selected and then click OK.

5. Turn on the display of the Session Browser by selecting View > Browsers > HyperWorks > Session.

6. Right click on the first HyperView in the Session Browser and select Publish Settings. The first HyperView listed represents Window 1 on Page 1.

7. For Description enter Displacement and for Format select H3D. Then click OK.

This sets the description to be used for Window 1 on Page 1 as well as the type of file to create. Notice how for the animation window, there are format options for both animation files (H3D and AVI) and image files (JPEG, TIF, PNG, BMP).

8. Right click on the first HyperGraph2D in the Session Browser and select Publish Settings.

9. For Description enter Node 2656 and for Format select JPEG. Then click OK.

Notice that how for the plotting window format, there are only image file formats available.

10. For the remaining windows, set the following Window descriptions and Format:

Window

Window Description

HyperView Page 1 Window 3

Rot. Velocity

HyperGraph2D Page 1 Window 4 Node 2656

HyperGraph2D Page 2 Window 1 Global Stress

PNG PNG

Format AVI

11. Within the Session Browser, verify that there is a check box under Publish for Page 1 and Page 2:

12. Publish the session by selecting File > Publish > HTML. 13. Browse to a location to Save the file and save the file as Exercise_7a.html.

Step 3: Open the file Exercise_7a.html.

1. Locate the Exercise_7a.html file. Use an internet browser (such as Internet Explorer) to open the file.

2. Notice in the left column there is a listing of the pages available in the session. Clicking on either link will jump to the selected page.

3. Also notice on each page, under each window, there is the description that was entered into the Session Browser in the previous step.

4. Click on Page 1 and then click in the window with the description Displacement. This opens HyperView Player which allows you to view and animate the results.

5. Now click on the window with the description Rot. Velocity. This opens the AVI file in a player which allows you to animate the results.

Step 4: Export a h3d file with Results.

1. Return to HyperView Desktop.

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2. Select Preferences > Export Settings > H3D to change the settings for the exported H3D file.

3. Uncheck the box next to Results. Now when a H3D file is exported, the contour results will not be contained in the file.

4. Make Window 1 the active window, and select File > Export > Model to export the model in Window 1 as a H3D file.

5. Browse to an appropriate location and save the file as export_h3d_results.h3d.

6. Open HyperView Player by selecting Start > All Programs > Altair HyperWorks 12.0 > HyperView Player.

Select

and open the file export_h3d_results.h3d.

Notice that this file does not have the displacement contoured but the measure group is displayed as it was in the HyperView session.

7. To turn on/off the measure group, use the visualization tool

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Use the visualization tool to turn on and off the Measures.

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