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1. 5 Bi al a oms al mem reas a Cate 2m EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014 EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014 Correction Factor Predicted Score Test Score Grid Point 0 0 earam u c marara Tanne una omen h ha beio Prediction Seo Teepe Pcktan Tots Blue Points Sum of score for esch blue zone BLE PONTS Dore GPa pot Set default scores Some points do not need to be tested and can be defaulted either to Green max score or Red min score You can manually set default scores on the second page by pressing the Set Defaults button Page B 22 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014 Pedestrian Headforms Sees DIICIEIEIEIEIEIEIETEIEJETEIEJEBEN preoiction Inworpoims Score sage EIER of oof oo E C oof 6 67 af mof nns MU SE o ml 0 00 SS f f o Predicted headform score _ excluding blue points sol 154 750 100 00 This will bring up a window where you can set the default values either to GREEN RED or leave blank Page B 23 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Double click to edit the values Description Default colour for row 0 column 0 RED or GREEN Default colour for row 0 column 1 RED or GREEN Default colour for row 0 column 1 RED or GREEN GREEN Default
2. width 15 0 Height 12 0 5 4 5 Changing colour and line styles When you select an object the colour line style and line thickness buttons are updated with the properties of the selected object Changing any of these while and object is selected will change the property of the object Page 5 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 5 5 Copying objects and using the clipboard If you want to copy the object to another page select the item and use the Edit Copy option from the Edit menu This copies the object onto the clipboard Cut Ctrl x Paste Ctrl Delete Del Save clipboard Empty clipboard Import Search and Replace Once you have an object on the clipboard you can Paste it onto any page in Edit the template including the page that you copied the object from If you paste the object back onto the same page the object will be offset slightly If you Cut Ctrl x aie the object onto a different page it will be placed in the same position on Copy Ctrl C page z Paste Ctrl You can also right click on the page at any point and then select Paste item Paste Ow o here This will paste the item at the current cursor location Delete Del Alternatively you can save the object to a file by using the Save clipboard Save clipboard function Currently only a single object can be saved Objects saved from s REPORTER should be given the extension oro REPORTER Object
3. Image class The Image class allows you to create bitmaps in Reporter More Member functions Ellipse x1 integer yl integer x2 integer y2 integer Fill x integer y integer tol optional integer Line xl integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer Load filename string PixelCount colour string tol optional integer Polygon x1 integer yl integer x2 integer y2 integer xn integer yn integer Polyline x1 integer yl integer x2 integer y2 integer xn integer yn integer Rectangle x1 integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer Save filename string filetype constant Star x integer y integer r integer Text x integer y integer text string Image constants Image BMP Save image as BMP Image JPG Save image as JPG Image PNG Save image as PNG Image properties fillColour string Colour to use when filling shapes on the Image Can be none a valid colour from the X colour database see etc X11 rgb txt e g Blue or RRGGBB each of R G and B is a single hex digit e g 0000FF for blue Font to use when drawing text on the Image Can be Courier Helvetica or Times fontAngle Angle degrees text is drawn at on the Image Can be between 360 and 360 degrees fontColour string Colour to use when drawing text on the Image Can be none a valid colour from the X colour database see etc X11 rgb txt e g Blue or RRGGBB
4. Right Bottom 300 Pressing OK will update the cropping information for the image Pressing Cancel will abort without changing the values 5 4 3 Text For text the window allows you to eat Enter text 2 x change the coordinates of the text the RIES text itself and the various text parameters _ Attribut see Section 5 3 4 for more details IE The OK button will exit the window and Name tet 6 update the text The Cancel button will exit the window without making any Text properties changes to the text Font Courier Style B T U Justify Bottom Left wi Size 12 v Text Example text Hyperlink Conditions x1 157 0 i 54 0 7 Geometry Page 5 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 5 4 4 Textbox For textboxes the window allows you to change the coordinates of the Enter text textbox the text itself and the various text parameters see Section 5 3 5 for Attributes more details The OK button will exit the window Name textbox36 and update the text The Cancel button will exit the window without making Text properties any changes to the text Font Courier Style u Justify Bottom v Left Size 12 v Text This is a textbox with multiple lines of text If necessary text will be wrapped Geometry Bottom left x 26 0 Bottom left 152 0 A A
5. else die Error No variable file on the command line n Page E 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 HHHHHHHHHH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HHH HH HH HH HH HH HHH HHH START OF YOUR PROGRAM e g loop over variables and save them to a file open SAVE gt varfile or die Error Cannot open variables file foreach var sort keys vars print SAVE Variable var value vars var gt value desc vars var gt description n close SAVE END OF YOUR PROGRAM HH HH exit sub get_var_from_ string Tries to read a variable from the variable file my string shift my Svar val desc if string VAR s w s VALUE s s 7 s DESCRIPTION s s 7 x Svar 1 Sval 2 Sdesc 3 elsif string VAR s w s DESCRIPTION s s s VALUE s s 7 x Svar 1 Sval 3 Sdesc 2 elsif string VAR s w s VALUE s s x Svar 1 Sval 2 Sdesc undef if Svar Svar uc var var s s _ g if exists vars var vars var gt value val vars var gt description desc else my variable variable gt value val variable gt description desc vars var variable Page E 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Example program Extracting the smallest ti
6. An existing report template can be opened from either the Open file option in the File menu or by using the open file button 3 3 Reading a library template Open Library Template REPORTER has a number of built in templates to create reports for standard automotive crash test protocols EuroNCAP IIHS etc and can be opened using the Open Library Template menu For further information see Appendix B 8 Page 3 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 3 4 Saving a template A template can be saved by choosing the Save as option in the File menu and then changing the file type to template 3 5 Saving a report A report can be saved by using the Save as option in the File menu and setting the file type to report The difference between a report and a template is that a template is the instructions or recipe of how to construct the report To actually create the report you have to generate it and then create some sort of output This could mean running D3PLOT command files programs FAST TCE scripts etc Alternatively once the report has been created you can save the whole thing as a report This saves the output of programs command files etc with the template so when you next read the file the results are already available the report does not need to be regenerated Page 3 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 4 Inserting and editing pages A report is generally made up of a number of diff
7. Revision History Version 12 0 Circles and ellipses were not rendered correctly in pdf files Now fixed Fixes bug 25848 REPORTER could crash if a library image was inserted very near the top or right hand edge of a page This has been fixed Fixes bug 24988 FAST TCE objects did not use the job filename when generating FAST TCF would look in the directory for the job If there were multiple jobs in the same directory it could choose the wrong file This has been fixed Fixes bug 24979 Extra commands added to a D3PLOT capture which were longer than 80 characters did not work This has been fixed Fixes bug 24933 Objects can now be locked on the page so they cannot accidentally be moved Enhancement 23503 REPORTER will now prompt the user to replace variables in the macro after doing a capture in PRIMER For each matched text string you can choose whether to replace it with a variable or you can do Yes to All or No to All Enhancement 21309 A new Batch method has been added to JavaScript so scripts can test if REPORTER is running in batch mode Enhancement 23990 A Duplicate method has been added to the Page class Enhancement 17602 Static methods GetAll and GetFromName have been added to the Variable class Enhancement 22772 Report hyperlinks can now have the form page title to link to another page in the report Enhancement 22974 A DeletePage method has been added to the Template class in JavaScript
8. Status Support THIS r D3PLOT REPORTER Alternatively you can right click on the button to give starting options for REPORTER 1 3 A 1 minute introduction to REPORTER REPORTER is designed to help you post process analyses automatically The idea is that you create a template which contains the intructions or recipe for how to process an analysis When you run REPORTER on an analysis it takes this template applies it to the analysis and creates a report which you can save in HTML pdf etc For example you may want to run a set of standard checks on an analysis after it has run to check that the analysis teminated normally there was not too much added mass the energy balance is OK etc You would create a checking template in REPORTER and then this would be applied to each analysis you want to check A summary of the steps required to make a template is 1 Start REPORTER See Running REPORTER for more details 2 Create a template See Creating a new template for more details 3 Create pages and or a master page if required See Inserting and editing pages for more details 4 Add objects on to pages These can be simple things such as lines text etc or advanced things like D3PLOT or Page 1 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER T HIS objects See Inserting and editing simple objects and Advanced objects for more details Use variables to make the template generic See Working with Varia
9. at point 30 20 idata fontColour red idata fontSize 12 idata fontStyle Reporter TEXT BOLD Reporter TEXT UNDERLINE idata Text 30 20 Test Page D 40 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Item class The Item class gives access to items in Reporter More Class functions e GetAll page Page e GetFromName page Page name string Member functions e Generate Item constants Item TEXT Text item Item TEXTBOX Item TEXT_FILE Item THIS T HIS item Item properties If item is active or not Inactive items will be skipped during report page item generation file string File for item Valid for item types Item IMAGE Item D3PLOT Item PRIMER Item THIS Item PROGRAM Item TEXT_FILE Item IMAGE_FILE Page D 41 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 fillColour Colour Colour of fill for the item object Valid for item types Item RECTANGLE Item ELLIPSE Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM and Item TEXT_FILE fontName string Font for the item Can be Courier Helvetica Times or Symbol Valid for item types Item TEXT Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM and Item TEXT_FILE fontSize integer Font size for the item 6 lt fontSize lt 72 Valid for item types Item TEXT Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM and Item TEXT_FILE fontStyle constant Font style for the item Can be a combination of Reporter TEXT NORMAL Reporter TEXT_BOLD Reporter TEXT_ITALIC or Repor
10. 2014 Side MDB Impact Close Crt wW pedestrian area 2014 Side Pole Impact 2015 Front FFB Impact 2015 Front ODB Impact 2015 Side MDB Impact 2015 Side Pole Impact Page setup Print CtrieP Write Report Ciri R rien nlf Note that this menu is created when REPORTER is loaded by looking for any ort files in the subdirectory reporter library templates in the directory where REPORTER is installed The tree structure is created from the FOLDER and MENU_NAME properites in the header of the file e g lt REPORTER FILETYPE template VERSION 120 TOTAL_ITEMS 132 TOTAL_PAGES 28 FOLDER EuroNCAP Adult Occupant Protection MENU_NAME 2014 Front ODB Impact gt If these properties are not present then the template is just listed in the first dropdown menu as the name of the template with any _ s removed This means you can create your own templates text edit the header properties to create your own menu structure put them in the reporter _library templates directory and REPORTER will add them to the menu Generate the template After selecting the template REPORTER should prompt you to select the keyword file of the job you want to post process GH Select k file Please select the LS DYNA keyword file of the job you want to post process Cox After pressing OK a file selector is mapped for you to select the keyword file In order to correctly extract the resu
11. Enhancement 22974 A new EditVariables method has been added to the Template class so that a variables editing panel can be called from JavaScript Enhancement 22387 A System method has been added to JavaScript Enhancement 15772 Script objects can now be shown as a button in presentation mode Clicking the button runs the script Enhancement 22387 A single script object in a template can now be set to run automatically when the template is opened Enhancement 22387 A new Window class has been added to JavaScript to enable standard dialogs to be used Enhancement 22387 T HIS objects can now be defined with a JavaScript instead of a FAST TCE script Enhancement 22387 New Page and Item classes have been added to JavaScript Enhancement 22387 Library templates can now be opened directly from the File menu Enhancement 22387 A File Delete method has been added Enhancement 22387 Version 11 2 Less than signs lt in text and textbox objects created corrupt pptx files This has been fixed Fixes bug 24613 If the Variable constructor was used to redefine an existing variable in a script REPORTER would give an error Page 0 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER if you tried to get any of the variable properties later in the script This has been fixed Fixes bug 23586 Version 11 1 If a D3PLOT object with multiple captures was updated again in D3PLOT to delete or replace captures REPORTER co
12. e The definition of a user s home directory e The definition of the temporary directory for scratch files In addition parsing of the oa_pref preferences file will now handle environment variables so that a generic preference can be configured to give a user specific result and preferences may be locked so that those set at the administration level cannot be changed by users These changes are entirely optional and users performing a simple installation on a single machine do not need to make any changes to their existing installation practice Status Directory Content and purpose oa_pref file option OA_ ADMIN xx Optional Top level configuration files xx 12 for release 12 0 thus OA ADMIN 12 Admin level oa_pref file Other configuration files Timeout configuration file Page G 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 OA_ADMIN Optional Same as OA_ADMIN_ 12 provided for backwards compatibility with earlier releases It is recommended that plain OA_ADMIN without the xx version suffix is not used since otherwise there is no easy way of distinguishing between parallel installations of different releases of the Oasys Ltd software in an installation IfOA_ADMIN 12 is not defined then this non release specific version is checked OA_ INSTALL xx Optional xx 12 for release 12 0 thus OA ADMIN 12 oasys install dir lt pathname gt All executables Installation level oa_pref file OA_INSTA
13. lt description gt will become the variable description REPORTER will set the value of the variable to be the value of the result type for the specified curve Here are a couple Page 8 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 of examples FAST TCF data REPORTER data FAST TCE script Curve Value of the result Result Variable Description Value No Type Name 1 var DEFORM 1 ave 20 ave DEFORM var SPEED 2 max Impact ei max SPEED ai speed 8 6 Creating a variable from the command line Variables can be defined in REPORTER when starting from the command line with the var option For example to define variable MODEL DIR you could do reporterll exe varMODEL DIR data test tubel If the variable contains spaces then it must be quoted reporterll exe varMODEL DIR C directory with spaces tubel You can also specify the variable type on the command line if required For more details see appendix A 8 7 Creating a variable from javascript You can create variables from javascript scripts in REPORTER with the Variable constructor For example var fred new Variable reporter currentTemplate MODEL DIR current model directory data test1 For more details see the Variable javascript reference 8 8 Deleting a variable You can delete an user defined variable by clicking on the Delete button when the relevant variable in the variable list is selected Please note that this will delete
14. ork New Variable Variable description Current model directory Variable value datajtest tubei Yariable type Directory Format Type None v Precision 2 Preview 1234 567890 e Variable name enter the variable name you want to use to refer to this variable Variable names should only use letter A Z or numbers 0 9 and underscores REPORTER will automatically convert the name into uppercase and replace any spaces with underscores when the new variable is created e Variable description enter the description for the variable This is only for reference and is not actually used by REPORTER However it is strongly recommended that you give meaningful descriptions for variables e Variable value enter the value for the variable This can be any text string or number you want Page 8 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 e Variable type the variable type allows you to give an indication what the variable will be used for The following types are predefined in REPORTER e Directory Expression File absolute File basename File extension File tail General Number e String Additionally you can give your own variable types if it helps you to manage variables The Directory and File types also allow you to choose a directory file interactively using the Browse button The different File types allow you to extract certain parts of the filename from the f
15. Description Create a new Variable The template and name arguments MUST be given all others are optional Arguments Template object to create variable in description string Description of variable optional value string Variable value optional string Type of variable Predefined types are Directory File absolute File basename a File extension File tail General Number and String Alternatively give your own type e g NODE ID If omitted default is General readonly boolean If variable is readonly or not If omitted default is false optional Return type Variable object Example To create a new Variable object called TEST with description test variable type of Number and value 10 which is not readonly for template templ var variable new Variable templ TEST test variable 10 Number false Page D 73 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Details of functions GetAll template Template static Description Returns an array of Variable objects for all of the variables in a Template Arguments plate Template to get the variables from Return type Array of Variable objects Example To get all the variables in template t var v Variable GetAll t GetFromName template 7emplate name string static Description Returns the Variable object for a variable name Arguments plate Template to find the var
16. Page 9 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 10 Conditional formatting Conditional formatting can be used in REPORTER to change how text is displayed depending on if a specific condition has been met This is very similar to the conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel but REPORTER can use as many conditions as you wish per object instead of the limit of 3 imposed by Excel Conditional formatting is currently supported for the following object types e Text e Programs scripts returning text e Text files e Table cells e Text boxes For example you may want to change the colour of a number in a report depending on the value Red if the value is greater than 100 Blue if the number is between 50 and 100 Green if the number is less than 50 This is very easy to do in REPORTER 10 1 Adding a condition To add a condition for an object press the Condition button This will start the conditional formatting window a Enter condition information 1 xl Conditions Conditions will be tested in the order shown until one matches Add Condition properties Name Remove BE Value fis equal to Move un Je Move un Preview of format when No preview Ea Move down condition matches ape allan hd Conditions can be added and removed by using the Add and Remove buttons If you have more than one condition they are tested in the order shown If the first condition passes the test then tha
17. PixelCount colour string tol optional integer Description Count the number of pixels in an image that have a specific colour Arguments colour string A valid colour from the X colour database see etc X1 1 rgb txt e g Blue or RRGGBB each of R G and B is a single hex digit e g 0000FF for blue tol integer Tolerance for colour matching 0 255 Default is 0 When looking at pixels if the red green and optional blue components are within tol of the colour of pixel x y the pixel will be counted Return type Number of pixels integer with the colour Example To fill an area of image idata starting at point 30 20 with red idata fillColour red idata Fill 30 20 Page D 36 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Polygon x1 integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer xn integer ynfinteger Description Draw a polygon on an image The last point is always connected back to the first point Arguments X coordinate of point 1 Y coordinate of point 1 Alternatively you can specify a single argument which is an array of coordinates to use Return type no return value Example To draw a blue polygon with a solid red border line width 2 pixels on image idata connecting points 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 20 idata fillColour blue idata lineColour red idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE DASH idata Polygon
18. The maximise command line option and maximise oa_pref option did not work correctly on some screens This has now been fixed Fixes bug 12941 The hostname library script would fail if the hostname of the machine contained a hyphen Fixes bug 12413 When drawing a polygon with the image Polygon function you could not define the line colour as none it always gave a black outline This has now been fixed Fixes bug 9585 If you edited a normal table after generating program data in any of the cells the program output was lost during the edit This has now been fixed Fixes bug 12348 If you saved output to html or vba pdf and the file existed you were asked twice if you wanted to overwrite it Fixes bug 12428 Variable expressions were not correctly evaluated when used in text Instead of the variable value being evaluated the entire string was evaluated which could sometimes mean that the expression could not be evaluated correctly This has now been fixed Fixes bug 12347 Powerpoint output was incorrect for several object types Page 0 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Bold italic and underlined text was shown as normal text Arrowheads were not drawn on arrows Rectangles and ovals without fill were still drawn with fill Dashed and dotted lines were drawn as solid lines e Autotable cells could have the wrong font style and justification This has now been fixed Fixes bug 12433 Version 9 3 Octo
19. To update template data data Update Page D 63 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Window class The Window class gives access to windows for a graphical user interface More Class functions Error title string error string buttons optional constant GetDirectory initial optional string GetFile extension optional string allow new optional boolean initial optional string GetFiles extension optional string GetInteger title string message string GetNumber title string message string GetOptions title string message string options array of objects GetString title string message string Information title string info string buttons optional constant Message title string message string buttons optional constant Questionttitle string question string buttons optional constant Warningttitle string warning string buttons optional constant Window constants Window CANCEL Show CANCEL button Window NO Show NO button Window OK Show OK button Window YES Show YES button Detailed Description The Window class is used to define several standard windows that can be used to read data give messages and provide feedback Page D 64 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Details of functions Error title string error string buttons optional constant static Description Show an error message
20. UNIT_TIME s C Model LIA la key L1A Page B 43 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 e C Model LIB I1b key L1B For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are KNEE_ANGLE_SPRING_ID ID for knee angle KNEE_DISPLACEMENT_SPRING_ID ID for knee displacement TIBIA_NODE_ID ID for tibia acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us LST File Details The Upper Legform LST file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and impact zones e g The variable names must start with a The lines with the model keyword files need to have three columns of data separated by commas FILENAME BLANK ZONE If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e FILENAME is the keyword filename e BLANK is a blank column e ZONE is the impact zone e g ULA U1B U2A U2B etc e g BEAM_FEMURI1_ID 100000 BEAM_FEMUR2_ID 200000 XSECTION_FEMUR_UPPER_ID 100000 XSECTION_FEMUR_CENTRE_ID 200000 XSECTION_F
21. arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD _FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file EuroNCAP Side MDB 2015 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a side MDB impact based on the 2015 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER_HEAD_NODE 100000 e CHEST_UPPER_RIB_SPRING 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are Page B 50 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER SHOULDER_RIGHT_BEAM ID for right shoulder force UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib
22. Any valid javascript type LogWarning argl Any valid javascript type Any valid javascript type Output string Any valid javascript type System string Any valid javascript type debug exit output global properties reporter Reporter This property is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions deprecated Detailed Description When Reporter is started a single global class object is created All of the standard JavaScript functions and properties are available from it In addition an instance of a Reporter class is available from the global reporter property The reporter object allows you to access the properties and templates used in Reporter Details of functions Batch static Description This method can be used to test whether REPORTER is running in batch mode or not Arguments No arguments Return type true false Example To check if REPORTER is running in batch mode if Batch do something Page D 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Debug string Any valid javascript type static Description Print a string to log file for debugging Anything that you call the debug method on will be printed to the log file window Note that a carriage return will automatically be added Arguments Any valid javascript type
23. File objects would read the text image file and show it Close Ctrl Ww e Program objects would be run to generate the output e Tables will be created e ete Page setup If any objects are to be created from D3PLOT or T HIS then Print Ctrl P REPORTER will start the relevant program to produce the object and then insert the object into the report REPORTER will also run Write Report Ctrl R any specified programs scripts and insert the output into the report as required Write pdf Write html Write ppt vba Write pptx Program locations Generate Ctrl G Preferences Exit During report generation feedback is given in the status bar showing Size REPORTER is doing For example in the image below REPORTER is currently generating output for object oasys21 on page 1 and the report generation is 29 complete lt gt Generating report page 1 item oasys21 m mu m 29 You can stop report generation at any time by pressing the Stop button in the status bar To switch between the the design view showing the report template and the presentation view showing the final report you use the layout buttons Page 7 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER The images below show an example of a report template before and after generating the page Design view before generating report Initia Conditions Reporter grees Doe set Filenaum EDEL pur eruennd tute001 jpa Demonstration Using Crush Tube Model l
24. GetOptions title string message string options array of objects static Description Map a window allowing you to input various options OK and Cancel buttons are shown Arguments Message to show in window options array of Each object in the array should have properties objects text Text to show next to option type Type of option Can be label plain text text a one line text widget textbox a multi line text widget or checkbox a checkable option value Text to show for option selected Checkbox only If checkbox is selected or not If OK is pressed the objects in the options argument will be updated with the values from the widgets If cancel is pressed they will not Return type false if cancel pressed true if OK pressed Example To create a window with title Options message Please give the options with label text textbox and checkbox widgets var options text Label example type label value banana text Text example type text value single line of text ba text Textbox example type textbox value Multiple nlines nof ntext text Checkbox example type checkbox value Do this selected true 1 ok Window GetOptions Options Please give the options options Page D 68 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER GetString title string message string static Description Map a window allowing you to input a string OK
25. LS Dyna vsa Editing Image thumbnails Size 100 This preference controls the size of thumbnails that are drawn for library images Page 2 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 2 7 4 Preferences LS DYNA Gi Preferences Grid Templates Library LS Dyna Filename convention LSTC naming d3plot d3thdt d3hsp etc Arup naming job ptf job thf job otf etc The filename convention preference determines how LS DYNA filenames are referred to by REPORTER in library scripts etc If you are using the Oasys Ltd SHELL then you should use Arup naming 2 7 5 Preferences VBA a Gi Preferences Grid Templates Library LS Dyna VBA Runtime folder for script C temp When you write a VBA script from REPORTER you must give the directory that the script will be run from This is because any images that are referred to must be included by an absolute filename so REPORTER needs to know where the images will be placed This preference allows you to change the location Page 2 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 2 7 6 Preferences Editing e Wit Preferences Grid Templates Library LS Dyna vsa Editing Object coordinates Snap use 2 opposite corners Size 1 0 Q use one corner width and height Nudge Reference corner Bottom left 4 Distance
26. Now fixed Bug fix 6950 If a keyword file otf file did not have a title the scripts to return the title returned an empty string Some people thought that the script was not working If there is no title the scripts now return no title Bug fix 6953 Scripts containing errors caused Presenter to crash on linux Bug fix 6954 Insert Variable dialog box was being mapped with the Save variables buttons from the File gt variables dialog box Now removed Additionally I have changed the dialog caption to something more sensible Bug fix 6957 When duplicating a page image items did not get duplicated Builds now automatically add the date compiled which is shown in the help about dialog box Bug fix total_mass js did not work Now fixed Add overflow pages for automatically generated tables which have too many rows to fit on one page in the area allocated to the table Currently works for drawing printing postscript html and pdf Add direct PowerPoint output for windows version Write JavaScript API documentation Bug fix 6655 Scripts could run very slowly on Windows machines but very quickly on HP workstations This Page 0 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER was because the script i o was written using the C standard library It has been rewritten in C and is now significantly faster e The variable PRESENTER_DEFAULT_DIR is now initially set to the same value as PRESENTER_TEMP when creating a new template
27. October 2014 REPORTER UPPER_HINGE_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for second upper hinge intrusion in the Y direction UPPER_HINGE_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z Spring ID for second upper hinge intrusion in the Z direction UPPER_HINGE_3_INTRUSION_SPRING_X Spring ID for third upper hinge intrusion in the X direction UPPER_HINGE_3_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for third upper hinge intrusion in the Y direction UPPER_HINGE_3_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z ID for third upper hinge intrusion in the Z direction Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file Page B 59 REPORTER Use
28. This is so that if you capture from D3Plot or T HIS the images you create are put in a sensible location until you change PRESENTER_DEFAULT_DIR to whatever value you want e FlexLM licensing has now been added to Presenter The dll Imgr9a dll must be given out and put in the same directory as the executable for windows e You can now change the script used in T HIS when capturing If you press Capture for a second time T HIS will replay the FAST TCF script and you can then update as required an resave e Enhancement 6508 You can now edit the command file used in D3Plot when capturing Additionally you can now change the settings that D3Plot creates If you press Capture again D3Plot will now replay the settings and properties file and you can then update as required and resave e Bug fix 6688 Right clicking on an object when in presentation mode and anything other than select mode caused Presenter to crash This has been fixed e Bug fix 6654 When capturing from D3Plot if the image file was longer than 80 characters Presenter would not correctly write the command file This has now been fixed e Bug fix 6653 If a library javascript file was missing Presenter could crash Presenter will now write an error to the logfile window e Comment lines in oa_pref files are now correctly skipped e Added this ChangeLog e Initial internal releases of Reporter Version 9 0 a Initial internal releases of REPORTER Text conventions
29. Variables are now saved by default when generating Fixes enhancement 7687 Now gives an error if a save did not work because a file or directory is write protected Automatically replace job names with DEFAULT_DIR and DEFAULT_JOB when capturing Can be turned off with a preference Fixes enhancement 7657 A default size is now given to an object if the user doesn t drag when creating an object This size can be set with an oa_pref option Fixes enhancement 7696 CURRENT_PAGE variable now works correctly on a master page when writing pdf vba and ppt Fixes bug 7892 Colour buttons now set correctly for WindowsXP style in Colour Dialog Fixes bug 7647 Added conditional formatting for textfile objects Fixes bug 7606 Shift and Ctrl keys now constrain lines arrows rectangles and ellipses when dragging Fixes bug 7733 version js script bug fixed Fixes bug 7695 The initial text properties are now set correctly for text file items Fixes bugs 7647 and 7605 LSTC OASYS Ltd filenaming can now be set as a preference Fixes bug 7692 and enhancement 7630 Images are now embedded when saving as a report Fixes bug 7660 Online manual now linked to Reporter from Help menu Reporter now prompts you to save a template before closing if any changes have been made Variables can now be used in condition values When the mouse enters the report you now get the keyboard focus log argument now works bug fix 7774 Reporter now traps template files that
30. e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file GTR Pedestrian Head Template Template Description This template will generate a report for pedestrian head impacts based on the GTR protocol LST File Details The Adult LST file gives the template the data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and the X and Y coordinates of the impact points The variable names must start with a e g ADULT_HEAD_NODE_ID 100000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model A_2_1 a_2_1 key 600 100 Page B 53 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 e C Model A_2_ 1 a_2_ 1 key 600 100 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the D
31. image of HIC for http www oasys software com dyna en downloads extras shtml pedestrianarea for more pedestrian HIC details results ina CSV file Create a contour Creates an image showing contours of HIC from values in reporter variables files See image of HIC for http www oasys software com dyna en downloads extras shtml pedestrianarea for more pedestrian HIC details results in reporter variables files Variables Read a REPORTER variable file Read a variables file written by another REPORTER template and install the variables from it into the current template Read variables from a CSV file Read variables from a CSV file one variable per row Read variables from a CSV file Read variables from a CSV file one variable per column data in rows Page B 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 B 2 Standard library pages REPORTER comes with some standard pages which can be installed from a library They are shown in the image below The pages are available in landscape and portrait versions The information on the page is the same in either case Te e Available pages s A4 4 Landscape Standard page Checking page Initial velocity and last state Include Files 4 Pedestrian Pedestrian area from CSV Pedestrian area from variables files Checking page Information for the analysis extracted from the OTF file and an energy balance plot from T HIS Include Files A list
32. on the left hand side However you can drag it and make it a floating menu if you wish Page 2 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Tools toolbar a x The tools toolbar contains the various objects which you can place on the page These may be simple objects such as lines rectangles text etc or more complicated objects such as a_ D3PLOT object or a library program Hopefully the icons should be self explanatory but if you let the mouse hover over the button a brief text description will temporarily be shown over the button and a longer text description will be shown in the status bar By default the Tools toolbar is docked on the left hand side However you can drag it and make it a floating menu if you wish 2 K3 3 gt See chapters 5 and 6 for more details PLO je gt OVE G IH sr R 2 2 Mouse and keyboard usage for the screen menu interface Most screen menu operations are driven with the left mouse button only but there are exceptions e Text in the dialogue area and text boxes requires keyboard entry e Text strings saved in the cursor cut buffer may be pasted into dialogue areas and text boxes using the middle mouse button The primitive widgets in the menu interface are used as follows Buttons Screen buttons are depressed by clicking on them Some button remain set when they have been selected these buttons will appear depressed
33. 3 2 25 0 0 0 0 I you want to use the variable MODEL NAME for the filenames instead of cube5 and the variable NODE instead of the node number 30 manually edit the command file to give the following Note that the position of the numbers on the right hand side should not modified READ 31 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 THF 32 3 2 11 0 0 0 0 MODEL NAME thf 4 3 6 5 0 0 0 0 Nodes 4 3 2 12 0 0 0 0 Node NODE 3 4 3 14 0 0 0 0 APPLY 5 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 PLOT 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 IMAGES 31 3 2 15 0 0 0 0 MODEL NAME bmp 38 3 6 12 0 0 0 0 CAPTURE 38 3 2 25 0 0 0 0 8 10 2 FAST TCF scripts For a FAST TCE script when you enter the script you need to replace the relevant parts with the variable name enclosed in signs Example For example a simple FAST TCE script that will do the same thing as the T HIS command file above node 30 disp x tag XDISP bitmap cube5 bmp XDISP So to make the same changes as the T HIS command file above substituting in the variables MODEL_NAME and NODE gives the following Node NODE disp x tag XDISP bitmap MODEL NAME bmp XDISP Page 8 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 8 11 Saving all the variables to a file after generating a report After REPORTER generates a report it can automatically save any variables to a file The file will be called reporter variables This can be very useful for processing multiple analyses For example you could perform several analyses which all dump their variables to a
34. 5 1 1 Grid u The grid option can be turned on by clicking on the Grid button This will create a grid of dots on the screen with a pitch equal to the grid size this is to help you in aligning objects in the report These dots will not appear in the generated report The size and attributes of the grid can be modified by using the Grid tab in the preferences 5 1 2 Snap The snap option can be turned on by clicking on the Snap button This will create an invisible grid with a pitch equal to the snap grid size When positioning and sizing object the point you select will not be the exact position of the mouse pointer but the nearest point on the snap grid The size and attributes of the grid can be modified by using the Editing tab in the preferences 5 2 Setting line style thickness colour and fill colour 5 2 1 Line style Zr The line style can be set using the Line style button Clicking on this will bring up a Line style window from which the line style can be selected 5 2 2 Line thickness 15 v The line thickness can be set by either clicking on the Line thickness button or by entering the thickness into the text box next to the Line thickness button Page 5 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Clicking on the button will bring up a Line thickness window from which the line thickness can be selected 5 2 3 Fill Line and Text Colour n Colour Fill The fill line or text colour can be set usin
35. Calculate magnitude Page 11 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER var length Math sqrt X X Y Y Z Z Check for valid magnitude if isNaN length throw Error Bad vector magnitude n Create new variable LENGTH var lvar new Variable reporter currentTemplate LENGTH vector magnitude length Discussion This is done using very similar methods to example 1 The only differences here are using the function Math sqrt and we do not use the standard Number toFixed function as the length could be smaller than 2 decimal places Instead we could use Number toPrecision orNumber toExponential if we wanted to format the result instead of leaving it with several decimal places The source code for this example is available here Example 3 Setting a character variable according to the result of a calculation Problem Input variable PERCENT If abs PERCENT lt 5 0 then new variable RESULT OK otherwise not OK Solution var result Get variable value from template var percent reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue PERCENT Check that the variable exist if percent null throw Error no PERCENT variable n Extract number from variable var p parseFloat percent Check that the variable is a valid number if isNaN p throw Error PERCENT percent is not a valid number n Check for less than 5 if Math abs p lt 5
36. Clicking on one of these directories updates the main area to that directory Page 2 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Basic Windows file filter box J a OSDisk C TEMP REPORTER test Onganize Naw folder E Desktop Mane A Downloads _ ER DR all_item_types ort 23 01 2013 16 REPOR BA linked thisort 73 01 2013 16 53 REPOR E testort 23 01 2013 1653 REPOR Ba test_win3 ort 24 01 2013 11 06 REPOR Ip Recent Places I Libraries 2 Documents Music Pictures A videos US My Computer MOCLAPFNKOKGL gt OSs CH File mans best REPORTER files ort or Double click on the directory required then on the filename you wish to open To open files that do not have the orr extension you will need to select All files from the Files of type pull down menu 2 4 Log file REPORTER creates a log file as it runs This log file shows how REPORTER is trying to run programs how it is creating images etc Logfile If any problems or warnings are generated they will be written to this log file This can then be Manual used to solve any problems Be ae Changelog The logfile is accessible from Logfile in the Help menu A typical log file window is shown below About Page 2 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER ur Logfile OASYS directory is P oasys92 HOME directory is C Documents and Settings miles thornton Using TMP environment variable for tem
37. Empty clipboard Empty clipboard will remove any objects from the clipboard Import Search and Replace To import an object that has previously been exported from the clipboard use Edit the Import option in the Edit menu Cut Chri Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctrl Delete Del Save clipboard Empty clipboard Search and Replace Page 5 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 5 6 Reordering items on the page The order in which items are drawn on the page can be changed by 2 different ways in REPORTER The order is important as it determines the order in which scripts programs etc will be run For more details see section 7 1 The first method can be used when editing objects Once an item is selected you can right click with the mouse and use the ordering options in the popup to change the object Model TITLE Proqran text CCDASTED TIMER 214 ap serintstt Edit Ctri E Executed on host Proaran text Delete Del Cut Ctrl CPU time Proaran text Copy Ctrl C arv scriots c h Save Ctrl 5 Final added mass Proaram text arv scriots f Generate Termination status Proaram text Send to back arv scripvts tt Send back one Date of execution Proaram text Bring forward one arv scripvts di Bring to front Model Directory MODEL_DIR Keyword file MODEL_NAME key One way of thinking about the object order is to think of a series of layers
38. Front Impact They can also be run in a batch mode Generally the templates contain a front summary page showing the overall score for the test with further pages containing tables showing individual measurements and graphs The reports can be written out as PDF HTML or PPTX files as normal EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 EuroNCAP Front impact 2013 EuroNCAP Front impact 2013 Subjective Modifiers Head and Neck Assessment Seme mama un nn Te an m a a ne nn wy D mn The ener ments te leet ot te runde and mente what vetoes Wh be Driver Passenger em en u De anne in os Musa tomer ane Pose wae ames Lag Pot ont atte Somme ea Chae oo on ney egret ey ee Rn m Hl bu rn u a nd a a pn ti nn m nn nn nn m a e OTAL 0 000 EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 Lower Leg Foot and Ankle Assessment Head Acceleration Driver Right Tibia Index eas me a mn Ta m The Ang soere n the ieuan of ts Lat ng Might Lag and Feet soares There are two generic types of templates e Single analysis templates Front Impacts Side Impacts e Multiple analysis templates Pedestrian Head Impacts Pedestrian Leg Impacts The way they work is slightly different but generally they follow the same process The next sections will describe how to use the templates Assumptions The following assumptions are made about the models to be post processed If they are not true of you
39. GetFiles extension optional string static Description Map a file selector box allowing you to choose multiple files See also Window GetFileQ Arguments Name Type Description 0 extension optional Extension to filter by Return type Array of filenames strings or null if cancel pressed Example To select multiple files using extension key var files Window GetFiles key Page D 66 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Getintegerttitle string message string static Description Map a window allowing you to input an integer OK and Cancel buttons are shown Arguments Title for window message string Message to show in window Return type value input or null if cancel pressed Example To create an input window with title Input and message Input integer and return the value input var value Window GetInteger Input Input integer GetNumber title string message string static Description Map a window allowing you to input a number OK and Cancel buttons are shown Arguments Title for window message string Message to show in window Return type value input or null if cancel pressed Example To create an input window with title Input and message Input number and return the value input var value Window GetNumber Input Input number Page D 67 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014
40. JavaScript class reference appendix Over time this functionality may be extended If you need to do something which is not possible with the current functionality then contact Oasys Ltd This chapter is not intended to be an introduction or a tutorial for JavaScript There are many resources on the web for that However a few examples are given to show the sort of things that are possible with scripts Additionally there are several good books on JavaScript Highly recommended is JavaScript The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan published by O Reilly ISBN 0 596 00048 0 Probably the best way to see what sort of things are easily possible in REPORTER using JavaScript is to look at the library scripts which are given out with REPORTER in the library scripts directory For more details of the scripts see the library scripts appendix 11 1 Example scripts Example 1 Percent change in two values Problem Take two input variables VALUE and VALUE_BASE Calculate new variable PERCENT 100 VALUE VALUE_BASE VALUE_BASE Check if VALUE_BASE 0 and if so don t do the division but set PERCENT to 100 Solution var percent Get variable values from template var value reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue VALUE var base value reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue VALUE BASE Check that the variables exist if value null throw Error no VALUE variable n if base _value null throw Error no VAL
41. PRIMER and T HIS 3 Opening and closing templates and reports 3 1 Creating a new template 3 2 Reading an existing template or report 3 3 Reading a library template 3 4 Saving a template 3 5 Saving a report 4 Inserting and editing pages 4 1 Adding a new page 4 2 Adding a new page from the library 4 3 Deleting pages 4 4 Duplicating pages 4 5 Reordering pages 4 6 Changing the current page 4 7 Changing the page properties 4 8 Inserting pages from file 4 9 Importing and exporting pages 4 10 Page masters 4 11Page Setup 4 12 Generating a single page 5 Inserting and editing simple objects 5 1 Using the Grid and Snap options 5 2 Setting line style thickness colour and fill colour 5 3 Inserting basic shapes 5 4 Editing shapes image and text objects 5 5 Copying objects and using the clipboard 5 6 Reordering items on the page 5 7 Search and replace 5 8 Locking items 6 Advanced objects 6 1 D3PLOT objects 6 2 T HIS objects 6 3 PRIMER objects 6 4 Program objects 6 5 File objects 6 6 Library objects 6 7 Table objects 6 8 Autotable objects 6 9 Script objects 6 10 Note objects 7 Generating and outputting reports 7 1 Effect of object order on generating a report 7 2 Generating reports 7 3 Outputting a generated report 7 4 Combining output from multiple reports 8 Working with Variables 8 1 User defined variables 8 2 Predefined variables 8 3 Creating and editing variables 8 4 Creating a variable using an external program script 8 5 Cr
42. Seek position integer Description Sets the file position for reading a file Arguments Position you want to seek to Return type No return value Example To seek to position 1000 in file object f Seek 1000 Page D 29 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 SimplifyName filename string static Description Simplify the name of a file by removing and Arguments Filename you want to simplify Return type string filename Example To simplify the filename data test file key var simple File SimplifyName data test file key This simplifies to data file key Size filename string static Description Check if a filename is a file Arguments File you want to find the size of Return type integer Example To find the size of file data test var size File Size data test Page D 30 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Write string Any valid javascript type Description Write a string to a file opened for writing by a File object Arguments Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to write Return type No return value Example To write string Hello world to File object f Write Hello world n To write the title of model 2 to File object f f Write The title of model 2 is models 2 title n Page D 31 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014
43. The string item that you want to debug Return type No return value Example To print string Hello world to the debug log file Debug Hello world Exit static Description Stop execution and exit from script Arguments No arguments Return type No return value Example Exit from script with Exit Page D 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 LogError arg1 Any valid javascript type Any valid javascript type static Description Print an error to log file Anything that you print will be output to the log file window in bold red text Note that a carriage return will automatically be added Arguments Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to print ei Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to print Return type No return value Example To give error Error something has gone wrong to the log file LogError Error something has gone wrong Any number of arguments can be given They will be concatenated e g LogError The value of iis i elephants LogPrint arg1 Any valid javascript type Any valid javascript type static Description Print a string to log file Anything that you print will be output to the log file window Note that a carriage return will automatically be added Arguments Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to print dee Any valid javascript type The
44. Total Blue Points This will bring up a window where you can enter the test point row column and value HIC for up to 20 test points Page B 25 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Double click to edit the values Description Test point 1 Column Leave blank or set between 8 and 8 2 Test point 1 Row Leave blank or set between 0 and 13 Test point 1 test value Test point 10 Column Leave blank or set between 8 and 8 Test point 10 Row Leave blank or set between 0 and 13 Test point 10 test value Test point 11 Column Leave blank or set between 8 and 8 Test point 11 Row Leave blank or set between 0 and 13 Test point 11 test value Once you have set the values and pressed OK the scores will update automatically If no test points are specified a correction factor of 1 0 is used Blue zones Some impact point locations may give unpredictable results when analysed and in these cases test data can be used instead These are specified as blue points either singly or grouped together in adjacent pairs to form a blue zone Up to 8 blue zones can be specified The test results of the blue points are applied to each point in the zone To specify blue points press the Set Blue Zone button on the third page Page B 26 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014 Correction Factor Predicted Score Test Score VERIFICATION This will
45. V8_HUMANETICS_HII 50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_LEFT_UPPER_TIBIA_LOADCELL PASSENGER_NECK_LOADCELL Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be Page B 34 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD_FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyw
46. and Cancel buttons are shown Arguments Title for window message string Message to show in window Return type value input or null if cancel pressed Example To create an input window with title Input and message Input string and return the value input var value Window GetString Input Input string Information title string info string buttons optional constant static Description Show information in a window Arguments Information to show in window buttons constant The buttons to use Can be bitwise OR of Window OK Window CANCEL Window YES or optional Window NO If this is omitted an OK button will be used Return type Button pressed Example To show information Information in window with title Example with OK and Cancel buttons var answer Window Information Example Information Window OK Window CANCEL if answer Window CANCEL Message You pressed the Cancel button Page D 69 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Message title string message string buttons optional constant static Description Show a message in a window Arguments message string Message to show in window buttons constant The buttons to use Can be bitwise OR of Window OK Window CANCEL Window YES or optional Window NO If this is omitted an OK button will be used Return type Button pressed Example To show message Press Y
47. any images in your presentation The directory name is the filename with images appended e g if you write a file powerpoint bas REPORTER will create a directory powerpoint bas images that contains all the images 4 Copy ftp the visual basic file and the directory of images to the location you specified with the reporter vba directory preference in 1 above or C temp which is the default if you have not specified the preference 5 Start PowerPoint and create a new presentation with no slides in it For PowerPoint versions older than PowerPoint 2007 Page 7 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER ee Slide Show Window He l Tools gt Macro gt Visual Basic g wi Help rr iV Spelling F Times New Roman Language AutoCorrect 000 nennen Online Collaboration gt Meeting Minder Macro gt Macros Add Ins Record New Macro Customize Security Yisual Basic Editor Alt F11 Microsoft Script Editor Alt Shift F11 7 Import the visual basic file into the editor by doing Mi ft Yisual Basic P tationi File gt Import file and selecting the file ME ee I File Edit View Insert Format Debug Run Tools Ad fel Save Presentationi Ctrl s Import File Ctrl M Geri E Export File Remove amp Print Ctrl P m i 21 Close and Return to Microsoft PowerPoint Alt Q 3 Retu back to powerpoint by doing File gt Close and return
48. be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are ABDOMEN_FORCE_FRONT_BEAM ABDOMEN_FORCE_MID_BEAM ABDOMEN_FORCE_REAR_BEAM BACK_PLATE_BEAM ID for back plate force CHEST_BOTTOM_RIB_ SPRING ID for chest bottom rib compression CHEST_MIDDLE_RIB_ SPRING ID for chest middle rib compression Page B 51 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file EuroNCAP Side Pole 2015 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a side pol
49. bring up a window where you can enter the test point row column and value HIC for up to 8 blue zones Page B 27 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ipti 2 Blue zone 1 Point 1 Row Leave blank or set between 0 and 13 Blue zone 1 Point 2 Column Leave blank or set between 8 and 8f 2 Blue zone 1 Point 2 Row Leave blank or set between 0 and 13 Blue zone 1 value Blue zone 2 Point 1 Column Leave blank or set between 8 and 8 Blue zone 2 Point 1 Row Leave blank or set between 0 and 13 Blue zone 2 Point 2 Column Leave blank or set between 8 and 8 Blue zone 2 Point 2 Row Leave blank or set 0 and 13 Once you have set the values and pressed OK the scores will update automatically Pedestrian legform Select the template Use the File gt Open Library Template menu to select the template you want D New CtrleN Open C1i 0 i Open Library Template C NCAP E Save CirteS EuroNCAP Adult Occupant Protection gt E Save As Fle OHS a Pedestrian Protection 2013 Legform Impacts Close Cire W pedestrian area 2014 Head Impact Page setup 2014 Legform Impacts Print CirleP 2015 Head Impact eae SIE 2015 Legform Impacts Generate the template After selecting the template REPORTER should prompt you to select the LST file for the lower leg impacts The LST file is a simple text file that lists the file locations of each model keyword file If you use PRIMERs model build p
50. button in the floating Reporter Objects 3 menu D3PLOT will automatically create Number of Reporter Objects 0 a settings file a properties file and a re command file for the current image and Current Reporter Object v return them to REPORTER Tag Capture These are embedded in the template so you do not have to worry about packaging them with your template file To return to REPORTER use the File menu and select gt Reporter which replaces the normal Exit command we Edit D3Plot object information d3ploti Job files C TEMP REPORTER test tube2 ptf Pre JavaScript von Mises stress Bitmap file DEFAULT_DIR imagel png Choose Command file automatically generated Data file JavaScript lt no script defined gt Geometry Bottom left X 35 0 Bottom left Y Width 80 0 Height When you get back to REPORTER the Job files textbox is filled in for you A tab is created in the menu with the Tag that you gave in D3PLOT In the example here the tag is von Mises stress REPORTERautmatically assigns a Bitmap file name for you If required you can change this to whatever name you require Note that the format if the file is given from the extension you give By default D3PLOT will return a png image to REPORTER If you wanted to create a jpeg image change the extension in the textbox to jpg The Command file is greyed out as it has been automatically creat
51. by writing For example include will only match strings which begin with the characters include When the caret is the first character of a character set it has a special meaning see Sets of Characters The dollar signifies the end of the string For example d s will match strings which end with a digit optionally followed by whitespace If you wish to match a literal you must escape it by writing A word boundary For example the regexp bOK b means match immediately after a word boundary e g start of string or whitespace the letter O then the letter K immediately before another word boundary e g end of string or whitespace But note that the assertion does not actually match any whitespace so if we write bOK b and we have a match it will only contain OK even if the string is Its OK now Page 10 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 A non word boundary This assertion is true wherever b is false For example if we searched for Bon B in Left on the match would fail space and end of string aren t non word boundaries but it would match in tonne Positive lookahead This assertion is true if the expression matches at this point in the regexp For example const s char matches const whenever it is followed by char as in static const char Compare with const s char which matches static const char Negative lookahead This assertion i
52. colour for row 0 column 2 RED or GREEN Default colour for row 0 column 2 RED or GREEN Default colour for row 0 column 3 RED or GREEN Once you have set the values and pressed OK the scores will update automatically Alternatively you can get the template to automatically default points to GREEN when the LST file is read in This requires a special comment DG before each file location e g DG C Model A_1_1 a_1_1 key C Model A_1 2 a_1 2 key DG C Model A_1 3 a_1_3 key will default the score for the 1st and 3rd model to GREEN and will not attempt to read any results for them This can be done automatically if you use the pedestrian markup script in PRIMER You can select an area where you want the points to default to green and PRIMER will add the DG comments to the correct lines in the LST file Test points The results from the analyses are scaled using a correction factor which is calculated based on results from a number of real world verification tests The correction factor is calculated by dividing the actual tested total score of the verification points by the predicted total points of these verification points The correction factor is then applied to all points execept for defaulted and blue points To specify the test points press the Set Test Points button on the third page Page B 24 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014
53. command from an MS DOS prompt will show the value of this and other variables Generally speaking you should put e Organisation wide options in the version in 0A_INSTALL e User specific options in HOME USERPROFILE Page A 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER oa_pref file syntax The syntax used for Primer is reporter lt keyword gt lt argument gt for example reporter default item width 10 0 The rules for formatting are The lt programme gt lt option gt string must start at column 1 This string must be in lower case and must not have any spaces in it The lt argument gt must be separated from the string by at least one space Lines starting with a are treated as comments and are ignored oa_pref options valid for REPORTER Preference Type D Description alid arguments Default date_format string gt Format for printing default date variable Day Month Day Year Day Month BEN mm dd yyyy Day Year mm dd dragged when creating Defeat pacing mm 0 0 999 9 5 0 Default snap size mm 0 0 999 9 Default nudge distance mm 0 0 999 9 file_names string gt Controls output file names LSTC d3plot OASYS ARUP LSTC u d3thdt d3hsp etc OASYS ARUP job ptf job thf job otf etc The following options control the library location in REPORTER arguments library_directory lt string gt User defined library directory for SOA_INSTALL reporter_libra REPORTER maximise Flogiealat a
54. component of colour 0 255 Return type colour value Example To set the text colour of item i to red i textColour Colour RGB 255 0 0 Page D 15 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Red static Description Creates a red colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to red i textColour Colour Red White static Description Creates a white colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to white i textColour Colour White Page D 16 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Yellow static Description Creates a yellow colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to yellow i textColour Colour Yellow Page D 17 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 File class The File class allows you to read and write from text files More Class functions ConvertSeparators filename string Delete filename string Directory filename string Exists filename string FindFiles directory string pattern string recursive boolean IsAbsolute filename string IsDirectory filename string IsFile filename string Mkdir name string SimplifyName filename string Size filename string Member functions Close F
55. each of R G and B is a single hex digit e g 0000FF for blue fontJ aa Justification to use when drawing text on the Image Can be Reporter JUSTIFY_CENTRE ee JUSTIFY_LEFT or Reporter JUSTIFY_RIGHT Size of font in points to use when drawing text on the Image fontStyle constant Style of font to use when drawing text on the Image Can be any combination of Reporter TEXT_NORMAL Reporter TEXT_BOLD Reporter TEXT_ITALIC and nn lineCapStyle constant nn to use for the end of lines on an Image Can be Reporter CAP_FLAT Reporter CAP_SQUARE or Reporter CAP ROUND lineColour string Colour to use when drawing lines on the Image Can be none a valid colour from the X colour database see etc X11 rgb txt e g Blue or RRGGBB each of R G and B is a single hex digit e g 0000FF for blue lineJoinStyle constant Style to use for the line join at vertices of polygons and polylines on an Image Can be Reporter JOIN_MITRE Reporter JOIN_BEVEL or Reporter JOIN_ROUND ROUND lineStyle constant Style to use when drawing lines on an Image Can be Reporter LINE NONE Reporter LINE SOLID Reporter LINE DASH Reporter LINE DOT LINE DOT Reporter LINE _DASH_DOT or Reporter LINE _DASH_DOT_DOT Page D 32 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER line Width Width to use when drawing lines on an Image value Detailed Description The Image class allows you to create load and save bitmaps There a
56. etc did not work properly Bug fix Presenter crashed when double clicking on page if in line arrow mode etc Add ability to load and save fasttcf scripts from editing panel Added next page and previous page to Page menu Added window menu with window list tile cascade etc When a file is opened or a new file is created it now appears maximised instead of a window Fixed bugs in page setup dialog not initialised properly for some page sizes and orientations Fixed bugs when writing advanced item images to vba and ppt They were not sized correctly Fixed bug that caused Presenter to crash on windows when paging up down and selecting items Changed comments js script so that newlines are added correctly Revise and fix javascript destrructor and garbage collection problems Add javascript method Close to template object Add ability to include debug information in logfile from D3Plot and T HIS Bug fix 7218 Printing advanced items positioned them incorrectly Add Star method to Image class Add ability to change linecap and linejoin styles in Image class Added Polygon Polyline and Fill methods to Image class T HIS is now called with display X instead of display batch so that FAST TCF works correctly Bug fix 6841 When changing the visibility of items by using the checkboxes in the view menu the template did not update immediately It now does Bug fix 6948 Presenter could crash when inserting an image if it was close to the edge of the page
57. file and then a summary template could create a table using these files see section 6 5 for more details At the bottom of the variables window there is a checkbox to turn on this option You can then give a directory to save the variables into out ariables 2 xi Variables for template ort Readoniy CURRENT_PAGE Number Current page number Yes DATE String Current date Yes DEFAULT_DIR Directory Reporter default directory C Documents and Settings miles DEFAULT_JOB File basename Reporter default jobname REPORTER_HOME Directory Reporter home directory P oasys92 Yes REPORTER_TEMP Directory Reporter temp directory c temporr2 Yes TOTAL_PAGES Number Total number of pages Yes USER_HOME Directory User home directory C Documents and Settings miles Yes USER_NAME String User name miles thornton Yes 2 New Edit Delete V When generating save variables to directory ZDEFAU LT_DIR Choose Help Cancel d You can select the directory or use a variable if required The directory defaults to DEFAULT_DIR and is on by default 8 12 Variable expressions Sometimes it is useful to do some simple maths on variables in REPORTER Creating a script to do something this simple is tedious If you use the Expression variable type then REPORTER will evaluate this when required to produce the result For example assume that you have 2 variables FORCE and AREA and you want to calculate a stress Yo
58. future versions Please use Reporter LINE DASH DOT instead deprecated Reporter LineDashDotDot This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter LINE DASH DOT DOT instead deprecated Reporter LineDot This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter LINE DOT instead deprecated Reporter LineNone This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter LINE NONE instead deprecated Reporter LineSolid This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter LINE SOLID instead deprecated Reporter TextBold This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter TEXT_BOLD instead deprecated Reporter Textltalic This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is onl
59. in a window Arguments error string Error message to show in window buttons constant The buttons to use Can be bitwise OR of Window OK Window CANCEL Window YES or optional Window NO If this is omitted an OK button will be used Return type Button pressed Example To show error Critical error nAbort in window with title Error with Yes and No buttons var answer Window Error Error Critical error nAbort Window YES Window NO if answer Window YES Exit GetDirectory initial optional string static Description Map the directory selector box native to your machine allowing you to choose a directory Arguments initial optional Initial directory to start from Return type directory string or null if cancel pressed Example To select a directory var dir Window GetDirectory Page D 65 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 GetFile extension optional string allow new optional boolean initial optional string static Description Map a file selector box allowing you to choose a file See also Window GetFilesO Arguments extension optional Extension to filter by allow new optional Allow creation of new file initial optional Initial directory to start from Return type filename string or null if cancel pressed Example To select a file using extension key var file Window GetFile key
60. in section B 8 4 The template will scan the LST file to see if it contains the required information If it does you will be asked if you want to use it Page B 19 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 In order to extract the required data the template requires information such as Node IDs and the model unit system etc Your list file already contains the necessary information Do you want to use this data If you press No or the LST file does not contain the required informtion REPORTER will inform you that it will start PRIMER so you can select the required information interactively BL Starting Primer Primer will be started so you can select the required information After pressing OK PRIMER will start the first model in the LST file will be read in and a window will be open for you to interactively select the required information Select the information in the same way as described in the single analysis template section On returning to REPORTER you should be prompted to select the LST file for the child head impacts This follows the same process as for the adult LST file If you do not want to process the child head impacts or you don t have an LST file press cancel in the file selector So long as you have selected at least one LST file the template should generate Finally you will be asked for a directory where REPORTER should write any images Please select a directory to write ima
61. library scripts directory of your Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment installation Then you need to add the following special comment at the top of the file A description of your script PROGRAM lt script_name gt DESC lt description gt FOLDER lt folder gt optional RETURN lt output_type gt ARG lt description gt lt default texts repeat for as many arguments as required EXPAND ARGS false optional END INFO Note the at the beginning and at the end The lines have the following meaning PROGRAM lt script name gt is the name of the javascript program It should have the extension js DESC lt description gt isa description of the program script that will appear in the Insert program from library window FOLDER The programs in the Insert program from library window are shown in a tree view lt folder gt indicates which folder or branch of the tree the program is shown in This is the sama as for library pages above RETURN lt output_type gt is the type of output the program returns Currently the only value supported is text lt description gt is the argument description that will appear in the Insert program from library window Optionally the line can be prefixed witha or sign Ifa sign is used the argument is optional Ifa sign is used default the argument is mandatory Optionally an argument can be followed by lt default_text gt which will be used as a default f
62. multiple filenames would not work if one or more of the filenames contained spaces This was due to a bug in D3PLOT Now fixed Fixes bug 12409 When writing PowerPoint output blank table cells were given the default font size by PowerPoint As this is very large it caused the table row to be larger Fixes bug 13874 User defined script directories can now be defined by using the library_directory preference This allows users to add their own library scripts if REPORTER is installed in a read only location Closes enhancement 13503 If a library program is added it is now possible to set the font size style and justification in the menu Additionally if you edit an existing library program this menu is now used instead of the normal program menu When generating a report more feedback is now given in the status bar so you know what REPORTER is doing e g running a D3PLOT object in background Closes enhancement 13888 Report generation can now be stopped at any point by a new Stop button in the status bar Closes enhancements 10708 and 11271 D3PLOT and T HIS can now be run from REPORTER without any windows being mapped by either giving the batch command line option to REPORTER or by setting the batch mode checkbox in File gt Program locations Additionally REPORTER can be minimised during report generation so you can use other programs Closes enhancement 10709 HTML output has been improved for tables Previously cell he
63. of any include files that were used in the analysis Initial velocity Images captured from D3PLOT of the initial velocity in the analysis and of the last state and last state Standard page A blank page with a standard footer Pedestrian area Information and a contour plot of HIC values for pedestrian HIC analyses See from CSV http www oasys software com dyna en downloads extras shtml pedestrianarea for more details Pedestrian area Information and a contour plot of HIC values for pedestrian HIC analyses See from variables http www oasys software com dyna en downloads extras shtml pedestrianarea for more details files New pages can be added as required See Adding pages to the library Page B 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER B 3 Standard library images REPORTER comes with some standard images which can be installed from a library They are shown in the image below Insert library image imagel ARUP Reporter 360 x 120 540 x 137 Resolution Geometry Bottom left X 33 0 g Bottom left Y 207 0 OK New images can be added as required See Adding images to the library Page B 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 B 4 Adding pages to the library To add a new page layout to the library you need to e Create a the page in REPORTER e Export the page saving it with extension orp using Page gt Export see exporting pages for more details e Copy t
64. or transparencies in a stack Each layer or transparency contains one object The order in which the transparencies are stacked changes the order in which things are seen This is exactly the same as layers in various photo editing software Send to back will make the object the first object drawn on the page back layer Send back one will move the object back a layer Bring forward one will move the object forward a layer Bring to front will make the object the last object drawn on the page top layer Page 5 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 The second method is to use the reorder items option in the Page menu This brings up a window as shown below The object stacking order is shown Clicking on an entry highlights that entry with a green selection box You can use the Move up and Move down options to change the stacking order of the selected item Once the objects are in the order you want OK will update the page Cancel will abort the operation without making any changes out Adjust object order line3 text4 text6 text6 text text program text10 program 1 textl2 proaram1 3 Move down Move up Le Page 5 12 Script Variables New page Reorder pages Next Previous Properties Reorder items Insert Insert from library Export Delete Duplicate Delete all pages Page master Generate page User manual Version 12 0 October 201
65. page This has been fixed Fixes bug 19200 REPORTER could crash when writing a pdf file that had overflow pages in an auto table if there was an error when the report was generated This has been fixed Fixes bug 19197 The cropping button was the default focus in the D3Plot object edit menu i e was applied when hitting enter rather than the OK button This has been fixed Page 0 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Fixes bug 19113 REPORTER was not able to create and import image files which were not JPEG when generating a D3Plot captured object This has been fixed Fixes bug 18403 REPORTER could crash if the user added a page to the reporter_library pages area which contained certain REPORTER items This has been fixed Fixes bug 18432 Version 10 1 If the page layout is changed from landscape to portrait or visa versa any items that are off the page are automatically moved to stay on the page Fixes bug 14307 If multiple conditional formatting conditions were set for a table autotable textbox or file object background then REPORTER would display the last condition matched rather than the first one This has been corrected Fixes bug 17794 Version 10 0 Added the loghtml command line options to allow the log file to be saved as html instead of plain text Added a Templates tab to preferences to allow the user to change whether existing files should be overwritten when generating images for multiple pa
66. set to the current line colour setting The OK button will exit this window and create the text The Cancel button will exit this window without creating any new text Also a Hyperlink button see section 9 allows the user to set the text up as hyperlink and the Conditions button see section 10 enables the user to apply conditional formatting to the text The background and border colour for the textbox can be set using the fill and line colour buttons in the style toolbar The border style can also be set with the line style and line thickness buttons in the sytle toolbar The margins for the textbox can be changed by using the Margins button Margins The Edit margins dialogue box allows you to change the margins around the text in a textbox The margins can be set independantly for the top bottom left and right sides of the textbox 5 3 6 Images Margins Enter text Attributes Name textbox36 Text properties Font Courier Js GJE Size 12 v Justify Bottom Left Text This is a textbox with multiple lines of text If necessary text will be wrapped Geometry Bottom left Y 52 0 A v Height 12 0 Bottom left x 26 0 width 15 0 gt Edit margins Left 1 0 Top 1 0 Right 1 0 Bottom 1 0 Bitmap GIF and JPEG Image can be added by using the Images button To add and image click on the point
67. the files in REPORTER For further details please see the instalation guide Flexlm and licensing REPORTER uses Flexlm licensing For REPORTER to run you must have a valid license for REPORTER or alternatively a license for D3PLOT PRIMER or T HIS Problems If REPORTER does not run then check the following 1 Do you have a license to run REPORTER If not contact Oasys Ltd 2 Do you have D3PLOT and T HIS installed 3 Do you have licenses for D3PLOT and T HIS 1 1 3 REPORTER installation Linux How to install REPORTER on Linux This is only a brief guide Installing files Run the setup program that comes with Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment11 0 This will install REPORTER in the Oasys 11directory For further details please see the installation guide Flexlm and licensing REPORTER uses Flexlm licensing For REPORTER to run you must have a valid license for REPORTER or alternatively a license for D3PLOT PRIMER or T HIS Page 1 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Problems If REPORTER does not run then check the following 1 Do you have a license to run REPORTER If not contact Oasys Ltd 2 Do you have D3PLOT and T HIS installed 3 Do you have licenses for D3PLOT and T HIS 1 2 Running REPORTER REPORTER is run by selecting the REPORTER button menu of the Oasys Ltd shell a SHELL 11 0 build 336 gt 5E LS DYNA Environment 11 0 PRIMER l iltas t Preferences LS DYNA Manuals
68. to Microsoft Powerpoint File Edit View Insert Format Debug Run Tools Ad i Save Presentation1 Ctri 5 Import File Ctrl M Export File GHI E Remove amp Print Ctrl P Close and Return to Microsoft PowerPoint Alt Q Page 7 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 9 In Powerpoint do Tools Slide Show Window Help a Tools gt macro gt macros a Y Spelling F7 Language AutoCorrect EE immo mo arr men cramer ORO Online Collaboration gt Meeting Minder Add Ins Customize Security Options Visual Basic Editor AIL F11 GA Microsoft Script Editor Alt Shift F11 There should be a macro called reporter Select it Macro and press Run ad reporter reporter_pagel reporter_page2 reporter_page3 Macro in Presentation x Macro generated Fri 25 Jan 09 21 42 2013 by REPORTER 11 0 build 538 L 10 Save the powerpoint presentation For PowerPoint versions 2007 and higher 6 Ca Make sure the Developer tab is visible by clicking on the Office button selecting Powerpoint Options and selecting Show Developer tab in the Ribbon in the Popular section Page 7 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER PowerPoint Options rom E Change the most popular options in PowerPoint V Predting Eure Top options for working with PowerPoint Typography Show bini Toolbar on selec
69. want to move the html file to somewhere else remember to move example html and the directory example html_files 7 3 4 PowerPoint files Visual basic file for PowerPoint REPORTER can write a visual basic macro that can be played in PowerPoint to generate a presentation Note From version 11 0 REPORTER can write pptx files directly on Windows and Linux so it is recommended that you use that method rather than using a visual basic macro Support for writing visual basic macros may be removed in future versions To create a powerpoint presentation macro follow these steps 1 Powerpoint visual basic macros which import images can only work if the command to import the image uses the absolute filename for the image When REPORTER writes a visual basic macro which will use images it MUST know the directory where this macro will be run so it can make absolute filenames for images By default REPORTER will assume that you will run the visual basic macro from C temp This can be changed by either e Setting the preference reporter vba_ directory for REPORTER before you start e Changing the preference in REPORTER using File gt preferences See section 2 7 5 for more details e Changing the definition of scriptFolder at the top of the vba file that REPORTER writes 2 Generate the report contents 3 Write a visual basic macro from REPORTER using Write ppt vba REPORTER will write the visual basic file and will also create a directory containing
70. where you want the bottom left corner of the image to be this will bring up a Image window Page 5 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Enter the image filename into the Image text box or click on the Choose button to call up a File window from which to Attributes Enter image information REPORTER select the image file You Name magel can also enter variables by right clicking in the text box which will allow you Image C itempitest jpa to bring up a Insert variables window from which to select a variable The OK button will close this window and add the image to the page Geometry The Cancel button will exit this window without adding an image The Cropping button see section 5 4 2 below can be used to crop the image before showing it Also the Hyperlink button see section 9 allows the user to set the image up as hyperlink 5 4 Editing shapes image and text objects You can edit a existing shape image or piece of text by first clicking on the Select tool to select the editing tool and left clicking on the object Multiple objects can be selected by holding down the SHIFT or CTRL keys when clicking on the objects or by left click mouse dragging a selection box around multiple objects The object s are then drawn with yellow boxes or handles which allow you to resize the object s Additionally the cursor changes to indicate that you can
71. will then look for a variable with the same name in the current template and use that value Page 6 25 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Column properties ZONE Add Column header properties Name ZONE Font Remove width 59 4 2 Reset Moye up DEE Column generated data properties Text 2Z0NE Font Hyperlink Conditions Choose Library Arguments Add Remove Edit The font can be changed with the Font button and hyperlinks e g see the ZONE column in the above example output and conditional formatting e g see the HIC column in the above example output applied using the Hyperlink and Conditions buttons Instead of just using text in the generated data you can run a program instead which could be a standard library program or an external program In this case the output from the program will be put in the table instead You can add as many columns to the table as necessary in exactly the same way Page 6 26 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 9 Script objects A out Edit script object information Attributes Name script Script Load Save var i for 1 1 i lt 10 i LogPrint The value of i is i Geometry x1 123 0 Y1 1274 0 x2 1114 0 Y2 1222 0 emen hd Script objects are JavaScript scripts which REPORT
72. wrapping border style border colour and background colour have been added to the textfile object Closes enhancement 8631 A new text colour button has been added to the Style toolbox to change the colour of text previously the outline colour button changed the colour of text This was necessary as the new textbox objects have fill colour border colour and text colour A new textbox object has been added to Reporter Closes enhancements 9107 7800 and 3881 Version 9 3 1 Visual basic output did not work on windows for text file items that had more than one line of text Now fixed Fixes bug 13165 Images for advanced objects in HTML output were scaled incorrectly Now fixed Fixes bug 13159 Reporter now shows files with extension pptx as well as extension ppt when writing PowerPoint files Writing text objects to a PowerPoint file did not work correctly with PowerPoint 2007 the text was written with a single letter on each line Additionally e File objects had a black background if a visual basic macro from Reporter was read into PowerPoint 2007 e Justification of text objects was not correct if a visual basic macro from Reporter was read into PowerPoint 2007 e Tables had the wrong border and background colours in PowerPoint 2007 e The colour of some lines could be incorrect in PowerPoint 2007 Now fixed Fixes bugs 13022 and 13138 Output from writing text objects to a Powerpoint file and to a visual basic macro could be inco
73. 0 result OK else result not OK Create new variable RESULT var rvar new Variable reporter currentTemplate RESULT is it OK result Discussion This uses exactly the same methods as examples and 2 The only difference is that the value used in the Variable constructor is a character string not a number The source code for this example is available here Page 11 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Example 4 Reading a T HIS curve file and operating on it Problem input variables CURVE_FILE and GATE_TIME read the T HIS curve file calculate average y value of all points that occur after x value GATE_TIME Return the average in a new variable Y_AVERAGE Solution var count line x y X Y ytot ny Get variable values from template var curveFile reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue CURVE FILE var gateTime reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue GATE TIME Check that the variables exist if curveFile null throw Error no CURVE FILE variable n if gateTime null throw Error no GATE TIME variable n Check curve file exists if File Exists curveFile throw Error Curve file curveFile does not exist n Check gateTime is a valid number var t parseFloat gateTime if isNaN t throw Error Gate time gateTime is not a valid number n create a new File object var file new File curveFile File R
74. 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 20 or idata fillColour blue idata lineColour red idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE DASH var a new Array 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 20 idata Polygon a Page D 37 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Polyline x1 integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer xn integer ynfinteger Description Draw a line with multiple straight segments on an image Arguments X coordinate of point 1 Y coordinate of point 1 Alternatively you can specify a single argument which is an array of coordinates to use Return type no return value Example To draw a blue dashed polyline width 2 pixels on image idata connecting points 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 20 idata lineColour blue idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE DASH idata Polyline 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 20 or idata lineColour blue idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE DASH var a new Array 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 20 idata Polyline a Page D 38 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Rectangle x1 integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer Description Draw a rectangle on an image Arguments X coordinate of start position for rectangle Y coordinate of start position for rectangle X coordinate of end position for rectangle Y coordinate of end position for rectangle Return type no return
75. 20 0 width 470 Height 45 0 To insert text from a file select the File Text from the Insert menu The Choose button allows the user to select the file by browsing the computer The positioning and style of the text can be changed The OK button will exit this screen and create the object save the changes made The Cancel button will exit this screen without creating the object saving the changes The text parameters such as font justification size etc can be set for the text that will be read from the file The text background and fill colour and the border line style can be set using the style toolbar See section 5 2 for more details The margins for the textbox can be changed by using the Margins button The Conditions button see section 10 enables the user to apply conditional formatting to the text By default text is not wrapped so long lines will be clipped to the width of the object If you want text to be wrapped onto multiple lines use the Wrap text checkbox Page 6 15 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 5 2 Image files x lt Enter image file information Attributes Name magefilei File C Tempjtest_image jpqg Cropping Geometry Bottom left x Bottom left Y 74 0 width Height 75 0 To insert an image from a file select the File Image from the Insert menu The Choose button allows the user to select the file by browsing the c
76. 2014 REPORTER 5 4 1 Shapes For shapes the window allows you to change the maximum and minimum coordinates of the shape ou Edit rectangle properties Attributes Li The OK button will exit the window and update the shapes coordinates The Cancel button will exit the window without making any changes to the shape 5 4 2 Images For images the window allows you to change the coordinates of the bottom left corner of the image the image and the resolution Enter image information Attributes Name imagei Image C tempitest jpg Resolution 150 dpi 2 Cropping Hyperlink Geometry Y1 178 0 The OK button will exit the window and update the image coordinates as well as the resolution to whatever is set The Cancel button will exit the window without making any changes to the image An image can also have a hyperlink For more details see section 9 Page 5 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Image cropping The Cropping button A i allows you to crop parts of Edit image cropping the image before it is shown Pressing the button Cropping maps the panel shown on the right This allows you to Left input how many pixels will 2 be cropped from the left right top and bottom of the image before showing it Type the values or use the up and down arrows to set the values you require Top
77. 4 REPORTER 5 7 Search and replace Edit Cut Ctrl x The search and replace function allows to to search for a text string or Copy Ctrl C variable in all objects in the template and replace it with another string or Paste Ctriy variable Delete Del For example you may make a template which contains D3PLOT objects that have the directories hard wired instead of using a variable for the directory If Save clipboard you want to generalise the template you can use Search and Replace to replace every instance of the directory name in the template with a variable Empty clipboard Import Search and Replace dialog box You can insert a variable if required sarean ze 21x by right clicking in the text box and selecting Insert Variable Search for D reporter_demo Replace with 2DEFAULT_DIR Help Cancel Each time REPORTER finds an s Confirm Repl jx instance of the string in an object in the aae ze i KIET template a confirmation dialog will be mapped giving you the option to replace or skip the string The object will be selected on the screen so you can see which object you are replacing in and a brief text description wil be given for the object and field that you are looking at 2 D3Plot object oasys20 output file D reporter_demo crushed _tube001 jpg Cancel will abort the search and replace operation Pressing Yes will do the replace pressing No will skip this insta
78. 5 0 When creating or editing objects in REPORTER that occupy a rectangular area on the page the position and size of the object can be given by 2 different methods 1 By giving the coordinates of 2 opposite corners of the rectangle 2 By giving the coordinates of one corner and the width and height of the object The default is to use the bottom left corner Snap will make object coordinates round to the snap size e g in the image on the right snap is set to 1 0mm so item coordinates will be rounded to the nearest mm This can help layout objects on the page The nudge distance is the amount that a selected item will be moved when the arrow keys are used Note that if you have snap active this may give unexpected results For example if you have snap set to 1mm and nudge set to 0 5mm every time you nudge an item REPORTER will round the coordinates to the nearest mm as snap is Imm If you want to move objects by less than the snap distance then turn snap off Page 2 13 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 2 8 Program Locations D3PLOT PRIMER and T HIS fr H4 Program Locations D3PLOT C oasys 11 d3plot11 exe Browse PRIMER C oasys 11 primer11 exe Browse T HIS C oasys 11 this11 exe Browse _ Run programs in batch mode Additional arguments to pass D3PLOT PRIMER T HIS This option can be selected from the File menu It is used to define the location of th
79. AP Create a US NCAP graph Create a graph for US NCAP star rating using HIC and chest acceleration 3ms clip OTF file programs The following programs retrieve information from an OTF file Mass info Added mass at end of Prints the mass added to the analysis by mass scaling at the end of the analysis This will analysis also look at otf files generated from restarts otf01 otf02 etc Added mass at start Prints the mass added to the analysis by mass scaling at the start of the analysis of analysis Percentage final Prints the percentage mass added to the analysis by mass scaling at the end of the analysis added mass This will also look at otf files generated from restarts otf01 otf02 etc Percentage initial Prints the percentage mass added to the analysis by mass scaling at the start of the analysis added mass Total mass in Prints the mass of the model at the start of the analysis analysis Timestep info Mass scaled timestep DT2MS Prints the DT2MS value from the CONTROL TIMESTEP card echoed to echo in OTF file the OTF file Smallest initial timestep Prints the element with the smallest timestep from the 100 smallest timesteps The line has the form lt element _type gt lt element _number gt timestep lt timestep gt Timing info Terminition Prints the termination time from the CONTROL_TERMINATION card echoed to the time ENDTIM echo in OTF file This will also look at otf files generated from rest
80. ATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are Name Description ADULT_HEAD_NODE_ID ID for adult head acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us LST File Details The Child LST file gives the template the data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and the X and Y coordinates of the impact points The variable names must start with a e g CHILD_HEAD_NODE_ID 100000 UNIT_LENGTH mm e UNIT_MASS tonne e UNIT_TIME s e C Model C_2_1I c_2_1 key 500 100 e C Model C_2_ 1 c_2_ 1 key 500 100 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are CHILD_HEAD_ NODE ID ID for child head acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the te
81. CAP ODB 2014 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a front ODB impact based on the 2014 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER_HEAD_NODE 100000 e PASSENGER_HEAD_NODE 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are Page B 36 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER DRIVER_DUMMY_VERSION String Driver dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HII_50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_HII_50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_DUMMY_VERSION String Passenger dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HII 50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_ HII 50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections chan
82. CrossSection XSECTION_TIBIA_UPPER_ID Database ID for upper tibia moment CrossSection LST File Details The Upper Legform LST file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and impact zones e g The variable names must start with a The lines with the model keyword files need to have three columns of data separated by commas FILENAME BLANK ZONE If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e FILENAME is the keyword filename e BLANK is a blank column e ZONE is the impact zone e g U_0 U_1 U_2 U_ 1 etc e g BEAM_FEMURI1_ID 100000 BEAM_FEMUR2_ID 200000 XSECTION_FEMUR_UPPER_ID 100000 XSECTION_FEMUR_CENTRE_ID 200000 XSECTION_FEMUR_LOWER_ID 300000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model U_0 u_0 key U_0 C Model U_1 u_1 key U_1 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm XSECTION_FEMUR_CENTRE_ID XSECTION_FEMUR_LOWER ID Page B 46 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with
83. Driver Left Knee Incorrect airbag deployment 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Left Knee Variable contact 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Foot Pedal blocking modifier 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Right Knee Concentrated loading 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Right Knee Incorrect airbag deployment 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Right Knee Variable contact 0 0 or 1 0 After setting the values and pressing OK the template will recalculate the scores This allows you to carry out what if type analyses B 8 2 Multiple analysis templates For the pedestrian impact protocols multiple analyses are run with impacts on different parts of the vehicle The scores for each impact are combined to calculate an overall score for the test There are two multiple analysis type templates e Pedestrian headform impacts e Pedestrian legform impacts Generally they follow the same process but they are different enough that we ll go through an example of how to use them both The section will describe how to run them interactively using the menus in REPORTER but it is also possible to run them in batch mode Page B 18 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Pedestrian headform Select the template Use the File gt Open Library Template menu to select the template you want GL REPORTER 12 0 64 bit build 7 File Edit View Insert Page Script Variables Window Help D New Ctri N g Open Cm 0 Open Library Template a C NCAP Gl Sav
84. EAD Zero variables count 0 ytot 0 ny 0 Keep reading lines from the file until we get to the end of the file while line file ReadLine File EOF if line charAt 0 continue else if line match CONTINUE break else count skip the four title lines at the top of the curve file if count gt 4 strip leading and trailing apaces line line replace s line line replace s result line match 0 9eE s s 0 9eE 4 if result null x result 1 y result 2 Extract numbers X Y parseFloat x parseFloat y Check that they are valid numbers if isNaN X throw Error X x is not a valid number n if isNaN Y throw Error Y y is not a valid number n Page 11 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER If greater than gate time then include value if X gt t ny ytot Y Close the file file Close Tf we have read any values calculate average and set variable if ny ytot ny Create new variable LENGTH var ave new Variable reporter currentTemplate Y AVERAGE average Y value ytot Discussion This example uses the File class which REPORTER defines to read the T HIS curve file The function File Exists can be used to test if a filename is valid Then the File constructor ReadLine and Close function
85. EMUR_LOWER_ID 300000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model U1A ula key UIA C Model U1B ulb key U1B For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are Page B 44 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e LOWER_LEG_LST_FILE C lower_leg st e UPPER_LEG_LST_FILE C upper_leg Ist e etc The arguments can be IMAGES_DIR optional Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the same directory as the keyword file LOWER_LEG_LST_FILE Lower leg Ist filename UPPER_LEG_LST_FILE Upper leg Ist filename EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legform 2014 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for pedestrian leg impacts based on the 2014 EuroNCAP protocol LST File Details The Lower Legform LST file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and impact zo
86. ER Extra options can be given by pressing the Options gt gt button The Copies tab allows you to choose what pages should be printed and how many copies The Options tab allows you to choose double sided printing and black and white or colour output The Properties button allows you to set the page size and margins Copies Print range Output Settings Print all Copies O Pages from to C collate _ Reverse Duplex Printing Color Mode None Long side Short side D Grayscale Color Pa ge Paper Width 297 00 mm Height 210 00 mm Orientation Portrait Landscape Margins 25 40 mm 31 75 mm 31 75 mm 25 40 mm Page 7 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 7 3 2 Pdf files Write pdf will save the report as a pdf Adobe Acrobat file Select the name of the pdf file you want to write 7 3 3 HTML Write html will save the report as a html file for the web Select the name of the html file you want to write REPORTER will then create a html page using frames containing the report There will be a html file for each page in the report and a contents page All the necessary images and files will be placed in a subdirectory of the main html file which is called lt name gt html_ files So for example if you create a file example html REPORTER will create a directory called example html files as well and put any extra files in there So if you
87. ER can run using an embedded JavaScript interpreter REPORTER also extends JavaScript by defining a number of classes for things specific to REPORTER See appendix D for a reference to these classes To insert a script select the script tool and then click and drag an area on the page This will draw the area that the script will occupy and then map the script window You can load a script into the window with the Load button and save the script to file with the Save button Scripts do not make any output on the page themselves i e the area on the page that the script occupies will not have anything drawn on it from the script but they can create output indirectly For example a script could create a bitmap using the Image class in REPORTER and then this bitmap could be imported with an image file object As a simple example the script above print things to the logfile window using the LogPrint function This doesn t do anything useful in itself but shows how you can produce useful diagnostic messages This generates the following output in the logfile window Page 6 27 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 x Logfile Executing script a The value of i is 1 The value of i is 2 The value of i is 3 The value of i is 4 The value of i is 5 The value of i is 6 The value of i is 7 The value of i is 8 The value of i is 9 The value of i is 10 Time taken to execute 30 Destroying script v 4 gt J I
88. ERLINE Text drawn underlined Constants for Justification Page D 49 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Reporter JUSTIFY_MIDDLE Middle justification of text Reporter JUSTIFY_RIGHT Right justification of text Reporter JUSTIFY_TOP Top justification of text Constants for Line join style Constants for Line cap style Constants for View Reporter VIEW_DESIGN Show template in design view Reporter VIEW_PRESENTATION Show template in presentation view Constants for Line style Reporter properties currentTemplate Template This property is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Template GetCurrent instead deprecated Page D 50 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER templates This property is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Template GetAllO instead deprecated Detailed Description The Reporter class allows you to access constants used in REPORTER Page D 51 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Template class The Template class gives access to templates in Reporter More Class functions e GetAllO e GetCurrent Member functions e Clos
89. ES or NO in window with title Example with YES and NO buttons var answer Window Message Example Press YES or NO Window YES Window NO if answer Window NO Message You pressed No Question title string question string buttons optional constant static Description Show a question in a window Arguments question string Question to show in window buttons constant The buttons to use Can be bitwise OR of Window OK Window CANCEL Window YES or optional Window NO If this is omitted Yes and No button will be used Return type Button pressed Example To show question Do you want to continue in window with title Question var answer Window Question Question Do you want to continue if answer Window NO Message You pressed No Page D 70 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Warning title string warning string buttons optional constant static Description Show a warning message in a window Arguments warning string Warning message to show in window buttons constant The buttons to use Can be bitwise OR of Window OK Window CANCEL Window YES or optional Window NO If this is omitted an OK button will be used Return type Button pressed Example To show warning Title is blank nSet to ID in window with title Warning with Yes and No buttons var answer Window Warning Warning Title is blank nSet to ID Window YE
90. ION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for third lower hinge intrusion in the Y direction LOWER_HINGE_3_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z Spring ID for third lower hinge intrusion in the Z direction PARKING_BRAKE_PEDAL_INTRUSION_SPRING X Spring ID for parking brake pedal intrusion in the X direction PARKING_BRAKE_PEDAL_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for parking brake pedal intrusion in the Y direction PARKING_BRAKE PEDAL _INTRUSION_SPRING_Z Spring ID for parking brake pedal intrusion in the Z direction ROCKER_PANEL_1_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for first rocker panel intrusion in the Y direction ROCKER_PANEL_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for second rocker panel intrusion in the Y direction ROCKER_PANEL_3_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y ID for third rocker panel intrusion in the Y sr Spring ID for 1D for steering column intrusion in the X direction column intrusion in the X direction UNIT_LENGTH ee length unit Can be m cm mm inch or UNIT_MASS ae mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or UNITTIME o TIME String Model s time unit Can be s ms or us UPPER_HINGE_1_INTRUSION_SPRING X ID for first upper hinge intrusion in the X direction UPPER_HINGE_1_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y ID for first upper hinge intrusion in the Y direction UPPER_HINGE_1_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z ID for first upper hinge intrusion in the Z direction UPPER_HINGE_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_X ID for second upper hinge intrusion in the X direction Page B 58 User manual Version 12 0
91. LL Optional Same as OA_INSTALL_ 12 oasys install dir lt pathname gt Ifno OA ADMIN xx directory is used and all software is simply placed in this install directory which would be typical of a single user installation then it is recommended that the xx version suffix is used in order to keep parallel installations of different releases of the Oasts Ltd software separate on the machine IfOA_INSTALL_ 12 is not defined then this non release specific version is checked OA _ MANUALS Optional Specific directory for user manuals If not defined oasys manuals dir then will search in lt pathname gt OA ADMIN xx manuals xx major version number OA INSTALL manuals Optional Specific home directory for user when using Oasys oasys home dir Ltd software If not defined will use lt pathname gt SHOME Linux USERPROFILE Windows OA_TEMP Optional Specific temporary directory for user when using oasys temp dir Oasys Ltd software If not defined will use lt pathname gt P_tmpdir Linux typically tmp TEMP Windows typically C temp It will be clear from the table above that no Environment variables have to be set and that all defaults will revert to pre 9 4 behaviour In other words users wishing to keep the status quo will find behaviour and layout unchanged if they do nothing OA INSTALL XX Previously the software used the OA_ INSTALL renamed from OASYS environment variable to locate the directory the software
92. L_DIR defbmp Choose Command file ZMODEL_DIR deflectiontcf Choose Job file MODEL_DIR MODEL_NAME ptf Choose Data file P Choose Geometry x1 123 0 _ 1 1276 0 x2 1120 0 Y2 229 0 Capture Cancel Page 8 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 When generating a report for Crush Tube 2 model the variables would be defined as follows Variable Name data test tube2 MODEL NAME tube_test2 When REPORTER generates the report it will substitute in the values of the relevant variables so the 3 text strings would become Bitmap File data test tube2 def bmp Job File data test tube2 tube_test2 ptf Command File data test deflection tcf To generate a report for one of the other templates all I you need to do is change the value of these 2 variables 8 2 Predefined variables REPORTER already has a number of variables defined They are Attributes Name Itext2 Text properties Style B I U Justify Font Courier Size 112 Text Date 4ZDATES Hyperlink Conditions x1 150 0 Y1 158 0 mea To add the date to each page you can insert a text object see Section 5 for more detail on text objects with the relevant variables substituted in So if the page number was 2 and the date was Wednesday 9 April 2003 at 11 00 when the report was generated the text string would c
93. N Buttons may be set by REPORTER itself for example the cursor arrow button on the right to indicate that this option is in force They may also be greyed out to indicate that the option is not N De currently available e g the hand button on the right Page 2 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 1 1 Text boxes To enter text in a text box first make it live by clicking on it then type in text into the screen that appears You can use the left and right arrow keys for line editing within a box text entry takes place after the current cursor position The cursor is shown as a flashing vertical bar Right clicking the mouse button in a text box maps the menu on the right which allows you to copy and paste text from the clipboard and where applicable insert a variable see chapter 8 2 3 Using the file filter boxes Popup window invocation Some buttons when selected will invoke a popup window from which a selection can be made The popup is invoked by clicking on the triangle Text E xample text box Undo Ctrl Z Cut Ctri X Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctrl Delete Select All Ctrl 4 Insert variable Ctrl I Wherever REPORTER requires you to enter a filename you will be presented with a text box into which to type it However to the right of this text box you will also see a button which may be used to invoke a basic file filter box The appearance of this is operating system dep
94. N String Driver dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HIII 50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_HIII 50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used Page B 55 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 DRIVER_LEFT_LOWER_TIBIA_LOADCELL ID for driver left lower tibia force DRIVER_LEFT_UPPER_TIBIA_LOADCELL ID for driver left upper tibia force DRIVER_RIGHT_FEMUR_LOADCELL ID for driver right femur force DRIVER_RIGHT_FOOT_NODE ID for driver right foot acceleration DRIVER_RIGHT_KNEE_TRANSDUCER ID for driver right knee displacement DRIVER_RIGHT_LOWER_TIBIA_LOADCELL ID for driver right lower tibia force DRIVER_RIGHT_UPPER_TIBIA_LOADCELL ID for driver right upper tibia force FOOTREST_INTRUSION_SPRING_X ID for footrest intrusion in the X direction FOOTREST_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y ID for footrest intrusion in the Y direction FOOTREST_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z ID for footrest intrusion in the Z direction LEFT_INST_PANEL_INTRUSION_SPRING_X ID for left instrument panel intrusion in the X direction LEFT_TOEPAN_INTRUSION_SPRING_X ID for left toepan intrusion in the X direction LEFT_TOEPAN_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y ID for left toepan intrusion in
95. NCAP ODB 2015 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a front ODB impact based on the 2015 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER_HEAD_NODE 100000 e PASSENGER_HEAD_NODE 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are Page B 38 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER DRIVER_DUMMY_VERSION String Driver dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HII_50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_HII_50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_DUMMY_VERSION String Passenger dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HII 50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_ HII 50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections cha
96. ODE X 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are DRIVER_DUMMY_VERSION String Driver dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HIN_50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_HIH_50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HHOI_5S0OTH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HII_5S0TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used DRIVER_HEAD_NODE ID for driver head acceleration DRIVER_LEFT_FEMUR_LOADCELL ID for driver left femur force DRIVER_LEFT_FOOT_NODE ID for driver left foot acceleration Page B 57 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 INSTRUMENT_PANEL_INTRUSION_SPRING_X LOWER_HINGE_1_INTRUSION_SPRING_X LOWER_HINGE_1_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y LOWER_HINGE_1_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z LOWER_HINGE_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_X Spring ID for second lower hinge intrusion in the X direction LOWER_HINGE_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_Y Spring ID for second lower hinge intrusion in the Y direction LOWER_HINGE_2_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z Spring ID for second lower hinge intrusion in the Z direction LOWER_HINGE_3_INTRUSION_SPRING_X Spring ID for third lower hinge intrusion in the X direction LOWER_HINGE_3_INTRUS
97. ORTER 6 1 4 Using a command file to create a D3PLOT object The alternative method to create a D3PLOT object is to create a command file yourself in D3PLOT which creates the image In this case the Image file must correspond to the name of the image you create in the command file GivCe the name of the Command file and the Job file This method is not recommended and is present only to keep old templates working Use the Capture method instead Job files DEFAULT_DIR test ptf Bitmap file DEFAULT_DIR image jpg Command file DEFAULT_DIR test tcf Data file Geometry Bottom left X 125 0 Width 61 0 6 1 4 Editing D3PLOT objects Bottom left Y 201 0 Height 56 0 The position and size of D3PLOT objects can be edited in exactly the same way as the simple shape objects See section 5 for more details If you have created the D3PLOT object using the Capture then the text on the button will change to Update capture You can modify update the existing captures if required See section 6 1 1 for more details Page 6 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 2 T HIS objects T HIS objects allow you to include output from T HIS in your template Edit T HIS object information Attributes There are three different ways of using T HIS objects The Name this first and by far the easiest is to use the Capture button to create a FAST TCE script for th
98. REPORTER Version 12 0 Oasys Ltd The Software house of Arup For help and support from OASYS Ltd please contact UK Arup Group Ltd The Arup Campus Blythe Gate Blythe Valley Park Solihull West Midlands B90 8AE United Kingdom Tel 44 0 121 213 3399 Fax 44 0 121 213 3302 Email dyna support arup com Web www oasys software com dyna China Arup 39 F 41 F Huai Hai Plaza Huai Hai Road M Shanghai China 200031 Tel 86 21 3118 8875 Fax 8621 3118 8882 Email china support arup com Web www oasys software com dyna cn India Arup Plot 39 Ananth Info Park Opp Oracle Campus HiTec City Madhapur Phase II Hyderabad 500081 India Tel 91 40 4436 9797 98 Email india support arup com Web www oasys software com dyna or contact your local Oasys Ltd distributor LS DYNA LS OPT and LS PrePost are registered trademarks of Livermore Software Technology Corporation User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Preamble Introduction Development Status Systems supported Revision History Text conventions used in this manual 1 Setting up and running REPORTER 1 1 Setting up REPORTER 1 2 Running REPORTER 1 3 A 1 minute introduction to REPORTER 2 Menu Layout 2 1 Basic menu layout 2 2 Mouse and keyboard usage for the screen menu interface 2 3 Using the file filter boxes 2 4 Log file 2 5 View Controls 2 6 Running a script file 2 7 Preferences 2 8 Program Locations D3PLOT
99. RTER Constructor Template filename optional string Description Create a new Template The filename argument is optional If present it is a file to open Arguments filename optional Name of template file to open Return type Template object Example To create a new blank Template object var template new Template Details of functions Close Description Close a template Note that if you call this function for a Template object the Template data will be deleted so you should not try to use it afterwards Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example To close template data data Close j Page D 53 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 DeletePage index integer Description Deletes a page from a template Arguments The index of the page that you want to delete Note that indices start at 0 Return type No return value Example To delete the first page of template t t DeletePage 0 Page D 54 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER EditVariables title optional string message optional string update optional boolean variables optional array columns optional constant Description Start a dialog to edit the template variables Arguments title string Title for dialog If omitted null or an empty string is given then the default title will be used optional message string Message to s
100. RTER You can change the mode back to the select mode in which case all of the normal operations which you can N do in design mode can be done including editing Additionally if you choose any of the other modes you can create new objects even though you are in presentation mode 7 3 Outputting a generated report Edit View Insert Page OD New REPORTER can create various types of output by using the various write option in the File menu Currently the types are ar Open Print print report onto a printer Write Report will write the ffile as a report images etc m Save included with the temple Write por will write an acrobat pdf file LA Save As rite html will write an HTML web page e Write ppt vba will write visual basic file for Microsoft Close nn rite pptx writes a PowerPoint file directly A 7 Page setup 7 3 1 Printing Print Write Report Write pdf Write html Write ppt vba Write pptx On Windows the Print command will bring up the standard windows printer dialog ICE On unix it will bring up Print the dialog Printer Name Location Type l Print to File Postscript iv Properties Local file Write PostScript file Output file u mid milest test reporter print ps m Options gt gt re ame Page 7 4 v R mn Ctrl N Ctrl O Ctrl S F12 Ctrl W Ctrl P Ctrl R User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORT
101. RTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Grey10 static Description Creates a 10 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 10 grey i textColour Colour Grey10 Grey20 static Description Creates a 20 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 10 grey i textColour Colour Grey20 Page D 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Grey30 static Description Creates a 30 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 30 grey i textColour Colour Grey30 Grey40 static Description Creates a 40 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 40 grey i textColour Colour Grey40 Page D 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Grey50 static Description Creates a 50 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 50 grey i textColour Colour Grey50 Grey60 static Description Creates a 60 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 60 grey i textColour Colour Grey60 Pa
102. RTER in batch mode REPORTER does not have a batch mode which means that it requires a display to be able to draw things on In reality this is not too much of a problem as D3PLOT will also need a display You can give a DISPLAY that REPORTER can display back to This can be a computer which is left logged in or a virtual display using xvfb Additionally to stop REPORTER from pausing to ask for confirmations you should use the batch command line argument 2 1 None of my scripts programs work on windows 1 Do you have perl python Tcl or whatever your script is written in installed on your machine 2 Do you have the correct file extensions and associations for this type of file e g for perl the script should be script pl and this should be associated with the perl executable on your machine 3 Do any of the program arguments have spaces in them If so you may need to quote them For example SMYPATHS scripts title pl C my directory my file with spaces key 3 1 Can I write my own scripts Yes See chapter 11 and appendix D for more details 3 2 Can I add new scripts images pages to the library Yes See appendix B for more details Page C 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 4 1 Text appears to be bigger smaller on the screen than in a postscript pdf file This can be a problem on Unix machines Unlike windows machines which use true type fonts fonts on unix are stored as bitmaps Only certain sizes are actual
103. S Window NO if answer Window NO Message You pressed No Page D 71 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Variable class The Variable class gives access to variables in Reporter More Class functions e GetAll template Template e GetFromName template Template name string Member functions e Remove Variable constants Variable DESCRIPTION Variable description Variable FORMAT Variable format Variable NAME Variable PRECISION Variable precision Variable READONLY Variable readonly Variable TYPE Variable type Variable VALUE Variable value Variable properties type string Variable type Predefined types are Directory File absolute File basename File extension File tail General Number and String Alternatively give your own type e g NODE ID Detailed Description The Variable class allows you to access the name description and value of a variable inside Reporter Note that if you want to get a list of the variables used in a Template you should see the variables array in the Template object The name description and value properties give access to the variable name description and value respectively Page D 72 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Constructor Variable template Template name string description optional string value optional string type optional string readonly optional boolean
104. T HIS objects can be edited in exactly the same way as the simple shape objects See section 5 for more details If you have created the T HIS object using the Capture then the text on the button will change to Update capture You can modify update the existing capture if required See section 6 2 1 for more details 6 3 PRIMER objects PRIMER objects allow you to include output from PRIMER in your template To create one select the Primer tool from the Tools toolbar and click and drag a rectangle on the page The Edit Primer object information window will then be shown Page 6 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER ec we Edit Primer object information o Fee Attributes Name primeri Type Bitmap v Cropping Bitmap file Choose Macro file Edit JavaScript Edit Geometry Bottom left X 28 0 A Bottom left Y 88 0 Width 80 0 gt Height 71 0 Tone If you want to create an image using PRIMER to put in the report e g an image showing yield stress or element timestep select Bitmap for the Type In this case the Cropping button can be used to crop away parts of the image from the top bottom left and right before showing it see section 5 4 2 for more details Alternatively if you do not want any output but just want to run Primer to create some other sort of output or run a JavaScript set the Type to Blank 6 3 1 Using Capture to create a PRIMER object To start PRIMER pres
105. UE BASE variable n Extract numbers from variables var v parseFloat value var bv parseFloat base value Check that the variables are valid numbers Page 11 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 if isNaN v throw Error VALUE value is not a valid number n if isNaN bv throw Error VALUE BASE base_value is not a valid number n Check for zero very small base value if Math abs bv lt 1 0e 20 percent 100 else percent 100 v bv bv Create new variable PERCENT var pvar new Variable reporter currentTemplate PERCENT Percent change percent toFixed 2 Discussion Variables in REPORTER are stored in each template so to get the values of the variables VALUE and VALUE BASE we need to get the template that we are using The easiest way to do this is to use the current Template property of the reporter object that is created when REPORTER starts Once we have the template there 1s a method Get VariableValue that allows us to get a variable value GetVariableValue returns the value of the variable as a string or null is the variable does not exist We can easily check for this and terminate with an error if the variable is missing We want to get the numerical values of the variables and check if they are valid numbers The standard javascript functions parseFloat and isNaN allow us to do this To check if the value is zero or very sma
106. a Next time you use the template perhaps on a slightly modified model you should be able to reuse this data without having to go back into PRIMER each time so long as the IDs of entities you want to extract data from stay the same andard_loadcases EuroNC4P_ ODBsEuroNC4P Front_ODB_Impi Page B 14 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER PRIMER will close and REPORTER will ask for the directory containing the analysis results which may be different to the location of your kewyord file Press OK and select the directory Finally you will be asked for a directory where REPORTER should write any images Press OK and select the directory REPORTER should now have all the information it needs T HIS will load and carry out the post processingg according to the selected protocol generating the required graphs Once this is finished REPORTER will ask a final question asking you how if you want to save the report Select how you would like to save the report and press OK Press Cancel if you don t want to save it Reporter report orr PDF pdf E HTML html E Powerpoint pptx T If you don t want to save the report just press Cancel If you do select the format s you want to save it in press OK and select where you want to save it in the file selector that will pop up The final report should look something like this with a front summary page showing the protocol scores in tables an
107. ad line 20 42 102 timestep i 30 continue c c Write out the data as a text output c 201 format 2x i9 5x e11 5 c write Element No Timestep do 40 i 1 5 write 201 elemno i timestep i 40 continue c c Also write out the smallest timestep as c REPORTER variable c 301 format VAR TIMESTEP VALUE e11 5 write 301 timestep 1 goto 999 c 900 write End of file reached c 999 continue stop end c Perl program script Perl Script to extract the 5 smallest timesteps from otf file Arguments 1 otf filename use strict Test to see if there is an argument if S ARGV lt 0 Page E 5 REPORTER print No otf filename n exit test to see if the otf file exists if e SARGV O print otf file ARGV O does not exist n exit open OTF lt SARGV 0 my n my t 1 0e 20 while lt OTF gt u d smallest timesteps Sn 1 if n gt 5 n 5 lt OTF gt lt OTF gt for my i 0 i lt n i lt OTF gt print my f split if S S lt t t SE SHE print VAR TIMESTEP VALUE t n exit close OTF Page E 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER F Unicode support REPORTER has basic unicode i e non latin characters support This means that if you have the appropriate language kit and fonts installed on your computer yo
108. ame analysis run on LS Dyoa version and Revision Description Yalue 1 OTF file name DEFAULT_DIR oDEFAULT_JOB otf Arguments Set to variable Oo u nn select Text properties pon asr Font Courier i Size 12 x Geometry Bottom left x 126 0 Bottom left Y 161 0 width 74 0 Height 63 0 This option allows you to specify a program script from the library the output of which will be inserted into the report by REPORTER when the report is finally generated See the library object appendix for more details about using the library Once you have selected this option you need to click and drag to create an area in the report where the output is to appear Then the relevant Insert window will be brought up From this window you can select the program script you want from the program list by clicking on it with the mouse Depending on the program script a number of argument boxes may appear into which you need to specify any arguments required by the script By right clicking or pressing Ctrl I in these you can bring up a Insert variables window from which to select a variable to use for the argument The output from the program script can be set to a variable using the Set to variable input box or Select button The font properties can be set using the Text properties section The text colour will be set to the current text colour Page 6 18 User
109. an any objects that uses that variable The following series of example shows what will and won t work In all the examples Object 1 red and Object 2 cyan both use a variable VAR1 generated by Script 1 green as an input In this case Object 1 is on an earlier page than Script 1 so the variable VAR1 hasn t been created yet In this situation REPORTER will give a warning and uses a blank for the variable VAR1 in Object 1 Object 2 however comes after Script 1 so the variable VAR1 has been created and Object 2 can be generated normally Page 1 In this case Object is on the same page as Script 1 but comes before it in the order of items on the page so there variable VAR1 hasn t been created yet In this situation REPORTER will give a warning and uses a blank for the variable VAR1 in Object 1 Object 2 however comes after Script lin the order of items on the page so the variable VAR1 has been created and Object 2 can be generated normally Page 7 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 in 7 2 Generating reports Edit View Insert Page OD New Ctrl N Once a report template has been created a report can be generated by selecting the Generate option in the File menu Open Ctrl O Generating a file causes all of the objects on the page to perform I Save Ctrl S any necessary actions to create the output for that object For example a El Save As F12 e Text objects could expand variables into the actual values
110. anese the preference reporter japanese font indicates what font should be used for Japanese characters It can be Kozuka Mincho Pro a serif font or Kozuka Gothic Pro a sans serif font The default is Kozuka Gothic Pro For Chinese the preference reporter chinese characters indicates if traditional or simplified characters should be used It can be Traditional or Simplified the default is Traditional Page F 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page F 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Installation organisation The version 12 installation can be customised to try and avoid a number of issues that often occur in large organisations with many users e Large organisations generally imply large networks and it is often the case that the performance of these networks can be intermittent or poor therefore it is common practice to perform an installation of the software on the local disk of each machine rather then having a single installation on a remote disk This avoids the pauses and glitches that can occur when running executable files over a network but it also means that all the configuration files in or depending upon the top level Admin directory have to be copied to all machines and more to the point any changes or additions to such files also have to be copied to all machines e In larger organisations the one person per computer philosophy may not apply with the consequ
111. antifier tells the regexp engine how many occurrences of the expression we want e g x 1 1 means match an x which occurs at least once and at most once We ll look at assertions and more complex expressions later We ll start by writing a regexp to match integers in the range 0 to 99 We will require at least one digit so we will start with 0 9 1 1 which means match a digit exactly once This regexp alone will match integers in the range 0 to 9 To match one or two digits we can increase the maximum number of occurrences so the regexp becomes 0 9 1 2 meaning match a digit at least once and at most twice However this regexp as it stands will not match correctly This regexp will match one or two digits within a string To ensure that we match against the whole string we must use the anchor assertions We need caret which when it is the first character in the regexp means that the regexp must match from the beginning of the string And we also need dollar which when it is the last character in the regexp means that the regexp must match until the end of the string So now our regexp is 0 9 1 2 Note that assertions such as and do not match any characters If you ve seen regexps elsewhere they may have looked different from the ones above This is because some sets of characters and some quantifiers are so common that they have special symbols to represent them 0 9 can be replaced with the symbol d The quantifier to ma
112. ar as ACCELERATION 2f When generated this will appear as the formatted value A complete list of the formats is available in the table below ee string string 45678 Exponential scientific TNAME 2e 1234 5678 11 23e 03 45678 e 0 eneral uses exponential format or fixed format whichever is the most NAME 28 1234 5678 1 23e 03 oncise 12 345678 12 45678 Lowercase NAME S Uppercase RNAME S Reporter _ REPORTER Page 8 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 8 10 Using variables in D3PLOT and T HIS command files and FAST TCF scripts It is also possible to use variables in a D3PLOT or T HIS command file or FAST TCE script that is referred to by a D3PLOT or T HIS object inserted in the template see Section 6 for more details on inserting D3PLOT and T HIS objects 8 10 1 Command files For a command file you will need to first create the command file using an actual value for the variable and then manually edit the command file to replace this value with the variable name enclosed in signs Example For example if you have a simple T HIS command file that reads in a THF file creates a curve of x displacement for node 30 and then creates a bitmap image of the curve READ 31 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 THF 32 3 2 11 0 0 0 0 cube5 thf 4 3 6 5 0 0 0 0 Nodes 4 3 2 12 0 0 0 0 Node 30 3 4 3 14 0 0 0 0 APPLY 5 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 PLOT 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 IMAGES 31 3 2 15 0 0 0 0 cube5 bmp 38 3 6 12 0 0 0 0 CAPTURE 38
113. arts otf01 otf02 etc OTF file Other OTF programs Analysis date Prints the date and time that the analysis started Analysis precision Prints the precision single double LS DYNA used for the analysis Analysis title Prints the title of the analysis echoed to the OTF file Page B 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER CPU time for analysis Prints the total CPU time used for the analysis This will also look at otf files generated from restarts otf01 otf02 etc Check on the quality Looks to see if the analysis terminated normally if the initial and final added masses the of the run total energy fluctuation and hourglass energy are below user definable limits Either prints OK or NOT OK Hostname analysis Prints the hostname of the machine the analysis was run on run on LS Dyna version and Prints the version and revision of LS DYNA used to run the analysis revision Normal or Error PrinsN o r ma lorE r r o r termination message from LS DYNA termination message Number of CPUs used Prints the number of CPUs used for the analysis for Pr OSs OS analysis runon run on Prints the operating system level of the machine the Prints the operating system level of the machine the analysis was ranon was run on Platform analysis run Prints the platform of the machine the analysis was run on on Pedestrian Create a contour Creates an image showing contours of HIC from values in a csv file See
114. avascript interpreter Other languages are NOT supported e To output text back to REPORTER use the output function e See the scripting chapter for javascript scripting e See the Javascript class reference appendix for extra javascript classes that REPORTER defines The scripts inthe library scripts directory give an indication of what is possible with internal scripts For more details refer to the individual scripts The functionality will be extended over time If you have requests for new features contact Oasys Ltd B 6 Adding images to the library To add an image to the library copy it into the library images directory of your Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment installation It will then be shown next time you start REPORTER The image should be a bmp jpg png or gif image Note that if you add images to the library and then use the image in a template the image will not work for installations that do not have this library image This is fine if you are using this internally in your company but be careful when giving a template to another person company The way round tis problem is to save your template as a report once it has been generated When you save as a report any images are embedded to this is then portable See Outputting a generated report for more details Page B 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER B 7 User defined library directories By default REPORTER looks for library programs in a subdirectory re
115. avascript object Added File gt close option was previously under Window gt close but obviously people expect it to be under the file menu bug fix 7637 If you change drawing mode when in presentation mode you are now automatically taken back to design mode bug fix 7636 Page 0 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 If you right click on an object when in any drawing mode you will change to select mode select the item and map the popup menu bug fix 7634 Added ability to reorder pages enhancement 7571 Variable values and descriptions are now escaped properly when saving so special characters can be used amp lt gt etc When capturing a FAST TCF script if the job file is not empty it is read into T HIS previously it was only done if there was a script as well When you edit a text item a crosshair is now shown at the point the text is justified to If you paste an item on the same page it is now offset from the original by the nudge distance so it is obvious to the user that a new item has been pasted If you paste into a different page or template it will be placed in the original position Right clicking on the page when you do not have a selected item now gives you the option to paste an item at that location if you have copied or cut an item previously Table items can now be written directly to PowerPoint Table items can now be written to vba Add ppt command line option to write powerpoint files Subr
116. ay to create a T HIS object is to use the Capture command First make sure that the Type is set to FAST TCF script If you press the Capture button REPORTER starts T HIS for you You can now open the model s and do whatever operations you want inside T HIS to get the cruves that you want on the screen Once are happy with the graph you have in T HIS press the File menu and selectReturn to Reporter which replaces the normal Exit command T HIS will automatically create a FAST TCF script for the current graph and return it to REPORTER This is embedded in the template so you do not have to worry about packaging it with your template file When you get back to REPORTER the Image file and Job file are filled in for you Edit T HIS object information Attributes Type FAST TCF script FAST TCF script EET HIS command fie File Plotting Functio Read Write Curves Models Edit Page Setup Print Manual Return to Reporter If you want to change the script you can press Update oasys12 Name c apture again at any time T HIS will start again FAST TC script Type and replay the script You can make any changes etc Output Bitmap v Cropping that you want and return to REPORTER again The old Bitmap File MODEL_DIR energy bmp script will be overwritten Job file oMODEL_DIR o oMODEL_NAME thf Script define Fi
117. be used to create a variable See section 4 4 for more details Accessing existing variables in REPORTER If you only want to use one or two variables from REPORTER then they can be passed as arguments to your program However if you want to access a lot of variables or print all the variables to a file this would not be possible To overcome this REPORTER adds an extra argument to every program that it runs This extra argument is a filename which contains lines of the form VAR lt NAME gt VALUE lt value gt DESCRIPTION lt description gt You can read this file and pick up all the variables from REPORTER Example perl program to read variables file from REPORTER The following example shows how you could read this file Skeleton REPORTER Perl script showing extraction of variables fed to program The variable file REPORTER generates will be the LAST argument Variables are stored in a hash vars each entry in the hash contains value and description e g If REPORTER has a variable FRED with value 1 and description Example variable you can get at the variable value and description using vars FRED gt value vars FRED gt description Arguments 1 Variables file Miles Thornton 23 5 2002 CC HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH vars f SHARGV gt 0 aH open VAR lt SARGV S ARGV or die Error Cannot open variable file while lt VAR gt chomp amp get_var_from_string _
118. ber 2008 When doing conditional formatting the default font for each condition is now the same as the existing font before you asked for conditions so for example you have to change only the colour Previously the defult font was always 10pt Courier Closes enhancement 11906 If you double click on a variable in the Edit variable menu it now edits the variable Closes enhancement 11904 In design mode programs that use library scripts now have REPORTER_HOME reporter_library scripts removed from the beginning of the text that is shown on the object so it is easier to see what the program is Fixes bug 7701 A library script has been added to read a reporter variables file Closes enhancement 11902 Printing did not work for autotable objects This has now been fixed Fixes bug 11848 The library directory for Reporter has been renamed to reporter_library Existing scripts which use library will be modified when Reporter reads the file In the menu that is mapped when the user right clicks on an object Edit and Delete were next to each other Occasionally people pressed Delete by mistake A space has been added to the menu either side of the Delete button to make it harder to delete the object by accident Fixes bug 11332 When the dyna filetype preference was changed in Reporter it did not change the filetypes for any existing objects in the template Additionally when opening a template if the preference was set to the Oasys Ltd
119. ble names must start with a The lines with the model keyword files need to have three columns of data separated by commas FILENAME BLANK ZONE If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e FILENAME is the keyword filename e BLANK is a blank column e ZONE is the impact zone e g U_0 U_1 U_2 U_ 1 etc e g BEAM_FEMURI1_ID 100000 BEAM_FEMUR2_ID 200000 XSECTION_FEMUR_UPPER_ID 100000 XSECTION_FEMUR_CENTRE_ID 200000 XSECTION_FEMUR_LOWER_ID 300000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model U_0 u_0 key U_0 C Model U_1 u_1 key U_1 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm XSECTION_FEMUR_CENTRE_ID XSECTION_FEMUR_LOWER ID Page B 48 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e LOWER_LEG_LST_FILE C lower_leg st e UPPER_LEG_LST_FILE C upper_leg Ist e ete The arguments can be IMAGES_DIR optional Directory to write images to If t
120. bles for more details Save the template See Saving a template for more details nce you have created a template you can apply it to analyses as many times as you want Start REPORTER See Running REPORTER for more details Open the template See Opening a template for more details Set the current analysis variable s See User defined variables for more details Generate the report See Generating reports for more details Create output such as report HTML pdf etc See Outputting a generated report for more details SUP WMO on Page 1 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page 1 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 2 Menu Layout 2 1 Basic menu layout REPORTER runs with in a single window owned by the window manager A typical REPORTER session will look like this Reporter iremm Latics Fiber Site a FL ements EN pirimi Bahn Demonstration Using Crash Tube Ylodel fon Cita eae Eh eee Eee pt a Dh thm Ah keie TITLE Fun oa Boat OF ies ti S bkal mail Temen Der dran m Boop Cenin alas a fuss he i hee QOF Pree ENGINEER Bam er BOTS SCTE Pa a Ai el N L A amp i D A amp 3 Within this main window there are a number of sections e Menu Bar Access to the main pull down menus File toolbar toolbar for opening saving and creating report template View toolbar toolbar for changing the view Design toolbar to switch between the presentation a
121. button will exit you from this window with out creating a new page See the library object appendix for more details on using the library 4 3 Deleting pages You can delete the present page you are working on by using the Delete page option in the Page menu or you can delete all the pages in the report template by using the Delete all option in the Page menu Both of these option will bring up a confirmation window in which you need to confirm the delete operation 4 4 Duplicating pages You can copy the current page by using the Duplicate page option in the Page menu This will make a copy of the current page and insert it after that page The current page will also be changed to this newly created page 4 5 Reordering pages You can change the order of the pages in the report by using the Reorder pages option in the Page menu This will bring up the reordering window Page 4 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER The pages are listed by the page number and title The page order can be modified by clicking on the page you want to move in the Pages box This will highlight that page which can then be moved by using the Move up and Move down buttons Once finished the OK button will save the new order and exit the window The Cancel button 2 Energy balance allow you to exit this window without making any 3 Force and Energy changes to the page order ut Adjust object order 1 Analysis summary Mov
122. called SPEED with the value 1000 and because there is no other output then the inserted text object would come up blank when the report was generated If the output however was VAR SPEED VALUE 1000 Impact Speed SPEED then REPORTER would create a variable called SPEED with the value 1000 and also create the following text object with the new variable SPEED substituted in Impact Speed 1000 8 5 Creating a variable using a FAST TCF script Rather than using the Variables window to create and define a variable it is also possible for a FAST TCF script to create and define variables You can create a variable in FAST TCF from one of the following curve results See the FAST TCE section of the T HIS manual for more details Property output keyword Minimum x minx rae e Cc Xatmaximumy kat max Y at maximumx fyatmax Maximum y in window t1 t2 maxw X at maximum y in window tl t2 Average in window tl t2 a hi 3ms V Hicd hicd pms as yatx X when Y is passed after gate time The values for these results need to have already been calculated in the script before you use them to create a variable The syntax to create a variable takes one of these two forms var lt NAME gt lt curve gt lt result gt lt description gt or var lt NAME gt lt curve gt lt result gt lt NAME gt will become the variable name lt curve gt is the curve tag or number lt result gt is the result type min max ave hic hicd 3ms
123. ch contain digits var line var regex new RegExp d while line file FindLineMatching regex File EOF Page D 24 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER FindLineStarting start1 string start2 optional string start3 optional string Startn optional string Description Reads a line from a file which starts with start opened for reading by a File object To enable this function to be as fast as possible a maximum line length of 256 characters is used If you expect a file to have lines longer than 256 characters then use ReadLongLine which allows lines of any length If one argument is used then the line must start with that string If more than one argument is used then lines which start argument OR argument2 OR argument3 will be returned Arguments String which matching lines must start with maximum length of 256 characters start2 optional alternative string which matching lines must start with maximum length of 256 characters start3 optional string alternative string which matching lines must start with maximum length of 256 characters startn string alternative string which matching lines must start with maximum length of 256 optional characters Return type string read from file or File EOF if end of file Example Loop reading lines from File object f which start example var line while line file FindLineStarting examp
124. change the font properties the preview updates to show what the text will look like for this condition Additionally you can rename the condition to a more meaningful name if required e g in the image below we have made a condition called Danger which will format the text in bold red if the value is a number between 10 and 100 4 ui Enter condition information 21x m Conditions Conditions will be tested in the order shown until one matches Danger Add Condition properties Name Danner Remove Value is between f10 0 and 100 0 Move up Preview of format when Moye down condition matches AaBb YyZy 123 890 Format This process can be repeated as necessary to add as many conditions as you wish Page 10 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 10 2 Condition types Condition Description type is equal to Treats the value as a string Strips leading and trailing white space from the string and compares it to the conditon value TRUE if the strings are identical This can also be used to compare integers but should not be used to compare floating point numbers As above but TRUE if the strings are different is greater than Treats the value is a real number It first tries to convert the value and the condition value to real numbers If this fails the condition is FALSE If it succeeds then the condition is TRUE if the value is greater than the condit
125. cript textbox can be used to load and edit a JavaScript The JavaScript will be saved in the REPORTER template 6 3 2 Editing PRIMER objects PRIMER objects can be edited in exactly the same way as the simple shape objects See section 5 for more details If you want to modify an existing capture you can use Update capture PRIMER will restart and replay the macro you have recorded Any new commands that you do will then get appended to the macro Page 6 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 4 Program objects 6 4 1 Text output from a program Sey Attributes Name programs Program JRTER_HOME library scripts termination js Arguments 4ZDEFAULT_DIR4 4DEFAULT_JOB otf Add Remove Edit r Text properties il e w Justify Font Helvetica Size 113 Conditions Geometry Bottom left x 180 0 Bottom left 179 0 Width 1124 0 Height 7 0 OK Cancel 7 This option allow you to specify a program from which the text that would normally outputted to the standard output will be inserted into the report by REPORTER when the report is finally generated The program can be written in anything you want C Fortran etc a scripting language such as Perl or Python a shell script on unix a batch file on windows etc All that matters is that output which would normally be directed to stdout is captured by REPORTER For more details on writing programs f
126. d These subjective values can be set on the second page of the report after it has been generated This lists all the subjective modifiers and their current value and a button to edit them Page B 16 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER EuroNCAP Front ODB Impact 2014 Subjective Modifiers Some modifiers are subjective and cannot be calculated automatically from the analysis results mhe uaar needs to look at the results and decide what values should be app Use the button below to change the values Chest Modifiers Vawe Vawe Steering Wheel Conta owo m Unstable Passenger Companment ooo NA I U Knee Femur and Pelvis Modifies Value Vale TE BEE EEE Foot and Anke vewe Vale Footwel Ru ow m edel Blocking Job veh_21 key Press the Set Modifiers button and then set the values in the window that pops up Page B 17 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Double click to edit the values Description Driver Chest Incorrect airbag deployment 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Chest Steering wheel contact 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Chest Unstable passenger compartment 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Foot Footwell rupture modifier 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Head Unstable airbag contact 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Head Hazardous airbag deployment 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Head Incorrect airbag deployment 0 0 or 1 0 Driver Left Knee Concentrated loading 0 0 or 1 0
127. d as an image a page to change subjective modifiers that can t be calculated automatically from the analysis tables and graphs showing the analysis results and protocol scores in more detail Page B 15 REPORTER EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 Driver Passenger Subjective Modifiers ne OO win num and Seema be Came mann un Pe eyes ree The ener ments te leet ot the reece nad mente whet vun thew be AN Pe mn bonm be ne Be renee T nn He ene caren Wee neo ee eee ne net ee pete Ree me et OTAL 0 000 EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 EuroNCAP Front Impact 2013 Lower Leg Foot and Ankle Assessment Head Acceleration Er IT um i 908 The Ang sosse n the ham of that Lat ag Right Lag and Feet seeree Subjective modifiers User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 EuroNCAP Front impact 2013 Head and Neck Assessment The Ang seare n ae hd a nd meet teare ot ee en mn EuroNCAP Front impact 2013 Oriver Right Tibia Index oe ee mae In general most data can be extracted automatically from the analysis results and then processed according to the protocol However some data is subjective and requires the user to look at the analysis results and manually set the values For example the EuroNCAP front ODB impact test has some modifiers which are applied as penalty points to the calculated scores e g if an airbag doesn t deploy correctly a 1 point penalty is applie
128. d from Reporter for version 9 3 Use pdf output instead Added File Mkdir method to create a directory Added File APPEND constant to enable appending to files Library scripts in tables did not work if there was a space in the installation directory of Reporter Additionally any variables that were used as arguments would not have been expanded correctly they would get the value from the current template instead of the value from the reporter_variables file Fixes bug 9451 Added pdf_image_downsample pdf_image_downsample_resolution and pdf_image_downsample_threshold preferences to allow image downsampling when writing pdf files Added use_file_vars preference to enable filenames returned from D3PLOT and T HIS to be replaced with directory file variables automatically if they match Version 9 2 3 Build 36 21 11 2006 Reporter would create a corrupt pdf file if a page contained a zero size image This has now been fixed Fixes bug 9315 If special characters like gt and lt were used in a condition name Reporter could not read the template file Now fixed Fixes bug 9220 Fixed problem with text in pdf files not printing properly on some printers Fixes bugs 9134 and 9212 The output from a table can now be written to a CSV file during generation Closes enhancement 9133 Reporter now gives the user the ability to stop report generation if an error occurs Closes enhancement 9126 Some objects with a line colour and or fill colour of non
129. dinate for rectangular items Detailed Description lineStyle constant Style of outline for the item Can be Reporter LINE NONE Reporter LINE SOLID Reporter LINE DASH Reporter LINE DOT Reporter LINE_DASH_DOT or The Item class allows you to access the items in templates that Reporter currently has open Page D 42 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Constructor ltem page Page type constant name optional string Description Create a new Item The filename argument is optional If present it is a file to open Arguments Iem NOTE Item NOTE name string Name of item optional Return type pe Item TEXT FILE Ttem IMAGE_FILE Ttem LIBRARY_IMAGE Item LIBRARY_PROGRAM Item TABLE Item AUTO_TABLE Item SCRIPT or Item object Example To create a new blank Item object var template new Item Details of functions Generate Description Generate an item Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example To generate item i i Generate Page D 43 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 GetAll page Page static Description Get all of the items in a page Arguments ge Page to get items from Return type array of Item objects Example To get all of the items on page p var items Item GetAll p GetFromName page Page name string static Description Get an Item from a name Arguments ge Pa
130. don t exist on the command line and skips remaining arguments but does not skip exit or log so it doesn t hang Change name to Reporter Unicode support added for text object strings no postscript or pdf support The generate command line option now always generates the report Previously it only generated in design mode This meant that if you opened a report you could not generate it as it is opened in presentation mode characters in filenames etc are now converted to characters on unix machines Change logic for multiple models in T HIS to that Presenter passes the directory of the first model as the start_in argument Added us ncap js library script to plot US NCAP graph Added fontAngle and fontJustify properties to javascript Image class to give more control of text rendering Version 9 2 Build 21 14 11 2005 Added maximise preference for Presenter Presenter now reads the start_in and vba_directory preferences Presenter now picks up variables from T HIS correctly when there are multiple analyses In the variables dialog the whole row is now highlighted when you select a variable instead of just the first column When adding a library program Presenter now checks to see if any compulsory arguments are missing When a new file is created a new page is now automatically started Added more error checking to data_file_from_variables js script bug fix 7635 Added LogPrint LogWarning and LogError methods to global j
131. don t want to save it Reporter report orr PDF pdf E HTML html E Powerpoint pptx T o ce If you don t want to save the report just press Cancel If you do select the format s you want to save it in press OK and select where you want to save it in the file selector that will pop up The final report should look something like this with a front summary page showing the protocol scores in tables and as an image and pages of tabulated results and graphs for each impact point Page B 30 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legforms 2014 EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legforms 2014 EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legforms 2014 t T Upper Legform U0 Upper Lagtorn iese 16m bower Leger Soc i t000 Tote Pudaraisa Legioen Sure of Upper and Lower Laglerm Scorn 3 var EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legforms EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legforms 2014 Upper Legform U0 Lower Legtorm LO ann B 8 3 Running the templates in batch mode As well as running the templates interactively they can also be run in batch mode in which case the user is not prompted with questions but must supply the information through a command line argument To run a template in batch type in the following at a command prompt reporter 12 exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Add the pdf html ppt command line arguments to write th
132. e e DeletePage index integer e EditVariablesttitle optional string message optional string update optional boolean variables optional array columns optional constant ExpandVariablesInString string string Generate GetAllPages GetMaster GetPage index integer GetVariableDescription name string GetVariableValue name string Html filename string Pdf filename string Ppt filename string Print printer string Save SaveAs filename string Update Template properties Name of the Template Number of Pages in template Variable GetFromName instead deprecated view constant Current view type presentation or design view for this Template Can be Reporter VIEW_DESIGN or Reporter VIEW_PRESENTATION Detailed Description variables array This property is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Array of Variable objects for this template Please use Variable GetAllO and The Template class allows you to access the templates that Reporter currently has open Note that if you want to get a list of the current templates in Reporter you should see the templates array in the reporter object The currently active template is stored in the currentTemplate property of the reporter object Page D 52 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPO
133. e Closes enhancement 15530 The total number of pages in the document is now displayed at the top of the window Closes enhancement 15513 Added preferences to allow the user to specify the format of the default DATE and TIME variables Closes enhancement 15529 Modified the default variable DATE so that it just shows the date rather than the date and time A new default variable TIME has been added Closes enhancement 15453 The maximum number of pixels you can crop off an image edge has been increased from 1000 to 10000 Closes enhancement 15451 Textboxes were not copied when duplicating a page This has been fixed Fixes bug 15441 Added the ability to write the output of a library program to a variable Closes enhancement 9031 Added the ability to align multiple objects together Option are left centre right top middle or bottom Closes enhancement 9300 Added the ability to select multiple objects on a page Multiple objects can be dragged cut copied pasted saved imported generated resized etc Closes enhancements 8980 9106 9300 Added the ability to format a variable For example if a number how many decimal places Closes enhancement 13867 The text on the status bar could get overwritten during generation of items Now fixed Page 0 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Fixes bug 14230 Setting the background colour of various object types via conditional formatting has been added Closes en
134. e instead of 8th See chapter 7 for more details on generation order When the generation order button is turned off the numbers are not shown The numbers are only shown in the design view They are not shown in any output generated from REPORTER Model TITLE Executed on host CPU time Final added mass Termination status Date of execution Model Directory Keyword file Model TITLE Executed on host CPU time Final added mass Termination status Date of execution Model Directory Keyword file Dprocram2 MODEL_DIR MODEL_NAME key prooraml5 Name vrocram2 MODEL_DIR MODEL_NAME key Page 2 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 2 5 5 Zoom Clicking on the Zoom option in the View menu will bring up the Zoom menu Zoom 25 150 etc will zoom in or out relative to the standardised size at 100 fit page will scale the page so that it fits into the window Actual size will resize the page to the actual size that the work is 100 fit width will scale the page so that the width of the page will fit the screen fit height will scale the page so that the height of the page will fit the screen 2 6 Running a script file Actual size Fit page Fit width Fit height Script Window Help Run script file To run a javascript script in REPORTER use the Script gt Run script file function This is equivalent
135. e Ctri S EuroNCAP gt Adult Occupant Protection I Save As f2 IHS gt Pedestrian Protection 2013 Legform Impacts Close Cri wW pedestrian area 2014 Head Impact Page setup 2014 Legform Impacts Print Ctrt P 2015 Head Impact Vision Manu rasan 2015 Legform Impacts Generate the template After selecting the template REPORTER should prompt you to select the LST file for the adult head impacts The LST file is a simple text file that lists the file locations of each model keyword file If you use PRIMERs model build process to create the models it is created automatically If not you can create it manually or as part of your own process for building the models Further details are given in section B 8 4 The names of the models are important as they tell the template the location zone of the impactor If you have used the pedestrian markup script in PRIMER they will be named correctly After pressing OK a file selector is mapped for you to select the LST file If you do not want to process the adult head impacts or you don t have an LST file press cancel in the file selector In order to correctly extract the results needed for the protocol the template needs model information such as Node IDs and the unit system etc This needs to be supplied to the template from comments written in the LST file and the template will help you to create this information Further information on the format of the data can be found
136. e D3PLOT PRIMER and T HIS software This option is useful if you want to use the 64bit executables instead of the 32bit executables for D3PLOT PRIMER and or T HIS If you want to set this option permanently then you can use the oa_pref options reporter d3plot reporter primer reporter this If REPORTER is started in batch mode with the batch command line argument then on Windows D3PLOT PRIMER and T HIS will be run without any windows being shown Setting the Run programs in batch mode checkbox will set this option when running REPORTER interactively It may occasionally be necessary to pass extra arguments to D3PLOT PRIMER or T HIS when generating a report Extra arguments to pass can be given in the D3PLOT PRIMER and T HIS Additional arguments to pass textboxes Page 2 14 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 3 Opening and closing templates and reports or saved by either using the File menu or the File Buttons Templates can be created opened ID s Edit View Insert Page Script D New Ctrl N Open Ctrl O f Open Library Template gt fl Save Ctrl S E Save As F12 Close Ctrl W Page setup Print Ctrl P Write Report Ctrl R Write pdf Write html Write ppt vba Write pptx Program locations Generate Ctrl G Preferences Exit 3 1 Creating a new template D A new template can be created from either the New file option in the File menu or by using the New file button 3 2 Reading an existing template or report
137. e args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e ADULT_LST_FILE C adult Ist e CHILD_LST_FILE C child Ist e etc The arguments can be ADULT_LST_FILE Adult lst filename CHILD_LST_FILE Child Ist filename IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legform 2013 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for pedestrian leg impacts based on the 2013 EuroNCAP protocol LST File Details The Lower Legform LST file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and impact zones e g The variable names must start with a The lines with the model keyword files need to have three columns of data separated by commas FILENAME BLANK ZONE If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e FILENAME is the keyword filename e BLANK is a blank column e ZONE is the impact zone e g LIA LIB L2A L2B etc e g TIBIA_NODE_ID 100000 KNEE_DISPLACEMENT_SPRING_ID 200000 KNEE_ANGLE_SPRING_ID 300000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne
138. e created If the Ctrl key is held down then the initial click position will be the centre of the rectangle instead of one corner The Page 5 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER line type line thickness line colour and shape fill colour will be set to the current settings 5 3 3 Ellipses and circles Ol You can create a oval or circle by using the Ellipse tool To create an ellipse click and drag the mouse from one corner to the other of a rectangle into which the ellipse will be drawn If the shift key is held down while doing this a perfect circle can be created If the Ctrl key is held down then the initial click position will be the centre of the ellipse instead of one corner The line type line thickness line colour and shape fill colour will be set to the current settings 5 3 4 Text A single line of text can be added by using the Text tool To add text click on the point you want the text to be this will bring up a Text window Text can be added using the Enter text eat Enter text 2 x box You can also enter variables in the ple KE text by right clicking in the text box or nbat pressing Ctrl I which will allow you to ae bring up an Insert variables window from which to select a variable Hamezjtert16 The font style and size are set in the Text properties relevant boxes The horizontal and vertical justification of De Courier xi denia u the text can be set independently to e
139. e down Move up Z 4 6 Changing the current page You can change the current page you are working on by using the Prev page and Next page option in the Page menu to change the current working page to the previous or next page in the report You can also move through the pages by using the Page Up and Page Down keys If you have a mouse which has a wheel then the wheel can also be used to move through the pages 4 7 Changing the page properties You can change the title of the current page by using the Properties option in the Page menu This will bring up an edit page properties window The new P page title is entered into the Title text box and the roperties colour can be chaged by clicking on the Choose ine button Clicking on the OK button will save the changes and exit this window The Cancel button will exit this window with out making any changes to Colour A Choose the page title out Edit page properties Analysis summary Wi 4 8 Inserting pages from file You can insert all the pages from another template file into the current template by using the Insert option on the Page menu and then selecting the required template file from the File window Page 4 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 4 9 Importing and exporting pages Individual pages can be exported from a template using the Export page option These pages can then be used in the page library or can be imported i
140. e hh mm ss hh mm ss A hh mm hh mm A se_default_varsklogical gt Use default vars in filenames when capturing if TRUE FALSE possible se_file_vars logical gt Use file directory vars in filenames when RUE FALSE apturing if possible The following options control unicode Preference Type D escription alid arguments Default files othic Pro Pro The following options control visual basic output Preference Type DB escription alid argumentsDefault Vba_directory Kstring gt Directory script willberunfrom temp Editing changing preferences There is currently no interactive preferences editor for REPORTER To change preferences for REPORTER please use the interactive preferences editor in Oasys Ltd SHELL D3PLOT T HIS or PRIMER or edit the preferences file by hand Page A 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER B Library objects B 1 Standard library programs REPORTER has a number of buit in scripts to retrieve data from the keyword or otf files New scripts can be added as required See Adding scripts to the library By default REPORTER looks for library programs in the subdirectory reporter library scripts in the directory where REPORTER is installed Other directories can be added if required See User defined library directories for more details D3PLOT data file programs Create a D3Plot data file Create a data file which is suitable for use by D3PLOT The data will be extracted from a cvs file from a cs
141. e impact based on the 2015 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER_HEAD_NODE 100000 e CHEST_UPPER_RIB_SPRING 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are ABDOMEN_BOTTOM_SPRING ID for abdomen bottom compression Page B 52 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER ABDOMEN_UPPER_SPRING ID for abdomen upper compression CHEST_BOTTOM_RIB_ SPRING ID for chest bottom rib compression CHEST_MIDDLE_RIB_ SPRING ID for chest middle rib compression CHEST_UPPER_RIB_ SPRING ID for chest upper rib compression HEAD_NODE ID for head acceleration PELVIS_BEAM ID for pelvis force SHOULDER_LEFT_BEAM ID for left shoulder force SHOULDER_RIGHT_BEAM ID for right shoulder force UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g
142. e object that T HIS will run FAST TCF script v Bitmap v Type Output Cropping The second is to write your own FAST TCF script Bitmap file The third is to use an existing T HIS command file to create Job File the output from T HIS If the Bitmap output type is chosen the Cropping button can be used to crop away parts of the image from the top bottom left and right Script before showing it See section 5 4 2 for more details Geometry Bottom left x 35 0 width 133 0 There are three different options for the type of output generated from T HIS e Bitmap indicates that the output is a bitmap file e Blank indicates that the T HIS object will not create any output on the page e Text indicates that the output is text This is only valid for the FAST TCF script type This option would be used if you wanted the output from a FAST TCF table or HIC command etc The Postscript option which was present in version 9 2 is no longer supported by REPORTER It is only there to allow old pre version 9 2 templates to be read in You should not use this type This has been removed in version 9 3 Page 6 8 Bottom left Y 224 0 Height 30 0 A v A v Attributes Name this Output Bitmap v Bitmap File Blank Text User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 2 1 Using Capture to create a T HIS object The easiest w
143. e on screen can be controlled by selecting or deselecting the various buttons to the left of the relevant object in the View menu 2 5 2 Full screen view The Full screen option in the View menu will enlarge the Main report area of the REPORTER window to fill the whole of the screen You can return to the normal REPORTER window by pressing the ESC key 2 5 3 Design Presentation view The Design view and Presentation view checkboxes allow you to swap between design and presentation view See chapter 7 for more details 2 5 4 Generation order The Generation order checkbox allows you to turn off whether the order that objects will be generated in is shown The order is important if you are using variables to make sure that variables are not used before they are defined To help with this REPORTER can show the order that the objects are generated in Page 2 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER When the generation order button is turned on REPORTER shows a number next to each item that will be generated The number is the order that the items will be generated on this page In the image on the right you can see that the first 5 library programs in the table are generated one after another but the last one is generated later on 8th on the page Showing the numbers helps to identify problems with objects being generated in the wrong order e g perhaps the last library program should have been generated 6th on the pag
144. e report out in the format you want Where e full path and filename of the template you want to use e g oasys12 reporter_library templates EuroNCAP_Front_ODB_Impact_2014 ort Note that you should enclose it in s if the path contains any spaces e full path and filename of the arguments file e g C my_directory arguments_file txt Note that you should enclose it in s if the path contains any spaces The args_filename is a CSV file containing the arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs For the EuroNCAP Front ODB Impact template the file can contain the following KEYWORD_FILE lt keyword_filename gt CSV_FILE lt csv_filename gt OPTIONAL RESULTS DIR lt results_ directory gt OPTIONAL IMAGES DIR lt images_ directory gt OPTIONAL As with the interactive case where the template behaves differently depending on the users response to the questions Page B 31 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 the interactive case will work differently depending on what arguments are supplied e g IKEYWORD_ FILE Post END data in keyword CSV_FILE Pees mi em Template will notrun will not run e e y e o emplate will not run data emplate will run using the CSV file data data If RESULTS DIR or IMAGES DIR are not specified then they are set to the keyword file directory Further info on the batch file arguments for each template can be f
145. e were not being rendered properly black was used instead This has now been fixed Fixes bug 9081 Reporter would get the start in directory wrong for T HIS and D3PLOT if there was a single jobfile that contained spaces This could cause T HIS to crash This has now been fixed Fixes bug 9038 Library scripts could not be used as table items an error occured when they were run This has now been fixed Fixes bug 9024 Page 0 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 It is now possible to generate a single page of a report Closes enhancement 9011 Powerpoint could be left open after writing a powerpoint file This would happen if the exit command line argument was given after the ppt argument This has now been fixed Additionally Powerpoint will now not be closed if there is an existing presentation open in Powerpoint Fixes bug 8998 The extension orp was not automatically appended when exporting a page if the filename has no extension It is now added if required Additionally ps is added for postscript pdf for Acrobat htm for HTML html on unix bas for Visual basic macros and ppt for Powerpoint Fixes bug 8988 If a library page e g checking page was inserted into a template and the Oasys Ltd filenaming scheme was used file thf instead of d3thdt etc the objects would not generate properly as they referred to d3thdt d3hsp etc This has now been fixed Fixes bug 8954 Reporter is now more intelligent when pastin
146. eating a variable using a FAST TCE script 8 6 Creating a variable from the command line 8 7 Creating a variable from javascript DNDPDHHHARLOOSOSP BOR mNNR BRE NNN hohe oa NNN a RPS RYHWWWWW LL NR Rm NNR RR me RO dtr nae easier meee el UAB BRWwWWNN NAA MWS OR m A Um OUN he Ee REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 8 8 Deleting a variable 8 9 Inserting a variable 8 10 Using variables in D3PLOT and T HIS command files and FAST TCF scripts 8 11 Saving all the variables to a file after generating a report 8 12 Variable expressions 9 Hyperlinks 9 1 Adding basic hyperlinks 9 2 Adding hyperlinks in D3PLOT external data blob plots 10 Conditional formatting 10 1 Adding a condition 10 2 Condition types 11 Scripting 11 1 Example scripts A Command line arguments and oa_pref options A 1 Command line arguments A 2 oa_pref options B Library objects B 1 Standard library programs B 2 Standard library pages B 3 Standard library images B 4 Adding pages to the library B 5 Adding scripts to the library B 6 Adding images to the library B 7 User defined library directories B 8 Standard library templates C FAQ C 1 Running REPORTER C 2 Generating output C 3 Extending REPORTER C 4 Other questions Answers D JavaScript class reference global class Colour class File class Image class Item class Page class Reporter class Template class Window class Variable class E Writing external programs
147. ecified on the main variables panel However the format set here is only applied to this instance of the variable Page 8 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Attributes Name Jtexta Text properties Style e ajul Justify Font Courier x Size 12 Text Page XCURRENT_PAGE4 Hyperlink Conditions Geometry l x1 157 0 ik 196 0 on hd When entered into a text string the variable needs to be enclosed by signs put at either end of the variable name to distinguish it from the rest of the text string In this example the variable CURRENT_PAGE has appeared in the text box as CURRENT PAGE 8 9 1 Manually inserting a variable It is also possible for you to manually enter a variable in by simply typing in the variable name enclosed by signs When the report is generated the CURRENT PAGE part of the text string will be replaced with the value of the variable If a local format is set this will be displayed within the signs 8 9 2 Controlling the precision decimal places of a variable The precision of a variable can be set in the Insert variable window when inserting it See the section above on variable format Alternatively the precision can be set when typing in the variable For example for a variable called ACCELERATION if a local format of a two decimal place floating point number is specified the variable ACCELERATION will appe
148. ections changed in V7 Up to V6 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V7 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_HEAD_NODE ID for passenger head acceleration Page B 35 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 PASSENGER_LEFT_FEMUR_LOADCELL PASSENGER_NECK_LOADCELL ID for passenger neck force STEERING_COL_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z ID for steering column intrusion in the Z direction YES or NO Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD _ FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file EuroN
149. ed by D3PLOT and does not need any editing Page 6 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER However if you wanted to add some extra dialogue commands to be done in D3PLOT when generating the object you can use the Edit button next to the Command File textbox to add edit them You can also specify two JavaScripts to run when generating the D3PLOT object a Pre JavaScript and a normal JavaScript To explain why there are two possible JavaScripts we need to consider the order that D3PLOT uses when creating the image It is Read the ptf files Run Pre JavaScript if defined Read properties and settings files stored in REPORTER template Run any extra Command file dialogue commands from REPORTER if defined Run the normal JavaScript if defined Read external data file if defined QO Oak For virtually all cases the normal JavaScript file in step 5 will do what you want However if you use a JavaScript to create a user defined data component then this must be run before the properties and settings files are read as that is where the data component for the plot is stored In this case a Pre JavaScript has to be used If you want to change the image you can x press Update capture again at any m Reporter Objects a_x time D3PLOT will start again and restore the current attributes you have set You Number of Reporter Objects 1 can make any changes etc that you want Al by pressing Update in t
150. ed item Align Centre will centre the selected items horizontally with respect to the left most and right most selected items Align Right will align the selected items horizontally with the right most selected item Align Top will align the selected items vertically with the top most selected item Align Middle will centre the selected items vertically with respect to the top most and bottom most selected items Align Bottom will align the selected items vertically with the bottom most selected item Distribute Page Vertical will evenly distribute the selected items vertically on the page Distribute Page Horizontal will evenly distribute the selected items horizontally on the page Distribute Vertical will evenly distribute the selected items vertically between the top most and bottom most selected items Distribute Horizontal will evenly distribute the selected items horizontally between the left most and right most selected items Page 5 6 Edit Ctrl E Delete Del Cut Ctrl X Copy Ctrl C Save Ctrl S Locked Generate Send to back Send back one Bring forward one Bring to front Move to page Align Page Left Align Page Centre Align Page Right Align Page Top Align Page Middle Align Page Bottom Align Left Align Centre Align Right Align Top Align Middle Align Bottom Distribute Page Vertical Distribute Page Horizontal Distribute Vertical Distribute Horizontal User manual Version 12 0 October
151. el s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us LST File Details The Child LST file gives the template the data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files The variable names must start with a The model keyword files must be in the form ZONE_ROW_COLUMN key If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e ZONE should be c e ROW is the grid point row e COLUMN is the grid point column e g CHILD_HEAD_NODE_ID 100000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s Page B 42 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER e C Model C_1_1I c_1_1 key e C Model C_1_ I c_1_ 1 key For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are CHILD_HEAD_NODE_ID ID for child head acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Wher
152. el installations of different versions of the software to co exist with only the top level administration directory names being distinct For example Release 12 0 Release 12 1 Top level directory OA ADMIN 12 Top level directory OA ADMIN 121 oa_pref file in OA ADMIN 12 contains oa_pref file in OA_ADMIN_ 121 contains oasys install dir lt pathname for 12 0 oasys install dir lt pathname for 12 1 installation gt installation gt oasys manuals dir lt pathname for 12 0 oasys manuals dir lt pathname for12 1 manuals gt manuals gt oasys home dir lt pathname for home directory gt would almost certainly be unchanged between major oasys temp dir lt pathname for temporary files gt versions although they could be different if desired Pathnames in the oa_pref file may contain environment variables which will be resolved before being applied The hierarchy of oa_pref file reading It will be clear from the above that in a large installation the oa_pref files have a significant role Each piece of software reads them in the following order exe sisal The rules for reading these files are e Ifa given directory does not exist or no file is found in that directory then no action is taken This is not an error e Amore recently read definition supersedes one read earlier therefore local definitions can supersede global ones unless it was locked e If two of more of the directories in the table above are the same the
153. ence that users will tend to have a floating home area on a network drive and may not use the same machine every day This is not usually a problem on Linux where the home directory is tied to the login name not the machine However on Windows platforms it means that 7 USERPROFILE which is typically on the local C drive of a machine is not a good place to consider as home since it will be tied to a given computer therefore a user who saves a file in his home directory on machine A may not be able to access it from machine B e Ina similar vein placing large temporary files on the tmp partition Linux or the C drive Windows may result in local disks becoming too full or quotas exceeded This section gives only a brief summary of the installation organisation and you should refer to the separate Installation Guide if you want to find out more about the details of installation licensing and other related issues Version 12 0 Installation structure In version 12 0 the option is provided to separate a top level administration directory from the installation one where the executables are located For large installations on many machines this allows central configuration and administration files to exist in one place only but executables to be installed locally on users machines to give better performance Version 12 0 also allows the following items to be configured e The location for user manuals and other documentation
154. endent Page 2 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Basic UNIX file filter box Select file to open Look in _ j u mid milest REPORTER DEMO test GO O A EG W Computer Name E milest all_item_types ort linked_this ort tem 2 P test_win32 ort reporter test ort Filename Open Files of type REPORTER files ort orr X Cancel The files can be filtered according to file types by using the File type popup in this case the pathname is u mid milest REPORTER DEMO test andthe pattern is ort REPORTER template and orr REPORTER report The main window show a list of the directories within the present one and a list of files that match the filter selection Files or directories can be selected by double clicking on them To go back up the directory tree you need to select the 2 button or you can click on the Look in popup to select any of the parent directories The File name box shows the current selection The Open button closes the file filter box and opens the selected file The Cancel button closes the file filter box without opening any files As an alternative to selecting a file and pressing Open you can double click quickly on the file to make your selection The left hand area of the menu shows commonly used directories In this case temp reporter You can add directories to the list by dragging them from the main area and dropping them
155. eport in presentation mode this was broken in an earlier release Output from program items with hyperlinks is now correctly written when writing a report Cursor used when hovering over hyperlinks is now correct on Windows Replacing subsequent variables in table cell contents and hyperlinks would fail if the first variable in the text did not exist This is now fixed Fixed JavaScript compiling problems on SGI that caused crashes Version 9 2 Beta 3 Build 30 20 2 2006 Add unicode support for writing pdf files Partially fixes enhancement 7799 no ps support yet Unicode characters can be used in text objects and table headers Add ability for capturing from T HIS to read a cvs file As no jobfile is returned N A is shown Fixes bug 8151 D3Plot objects can now use multiple models and or windows When using capture new models can be opened When you return to Reporter all of the models and windows are remembered Fixes enhancement 7237 Object coordinates can now be specified by using 2 corners or by using a corner and width height This can be Page 0 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER set by a preference Fixes enhancement 7811 You can now search and replace strings in objects Fixes enhancement 7820 Text items can now be vertically justified as well as horizontally This should help line up output from text items and program items Fixes enhancement 7812 D3PLOT and T HIS are now passed the maximise com
156. er manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ADULT_LST_FILE Adult lst filename CHILD_LST_FILE Child Ist filename IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file EuroNCAP Pedestrian Head 2015 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for pedestrian head impacts based on the 2015 EuroNCAP protocol LST File Details The Adult LST file gives the template the data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files The variable names must start with a The model keyword files must be in the form ZONE_ROW_COLUMN key If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e ZONE should be a e ROW is the grid point row e COLUMN is the grid point column e g ADULT_HEAD_NODE_ID 100000 e UNIT_LENGTH mm e UNIT_MASS tonne e UNIT_TIME s e C Model A_2_1 a_2_1 key e C Model A_2_ 1 a_2_ 1 key For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are ADULT_HEAD_NODE_ID ID for adult head acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Mod
157. erent pages Only one page is shown on WERE Script variables the screen at any one time Moving through the pages of the report adding deleting and reordering pages are all controlled form the Page menu New page Reorder pages Next Previous Properties Reorder items Insert Insert From library Export Delete Duplicate Delete all pages Page master Generate page 4 1 Adding a new page A new page can be added by using the New page MAR t option in the Page menu This will bring up a Edt LL fea Red Page layout window from which you can give the new page a title and set the background colour Properties Title I Clou Choose Wi 4 2 Adding a new page from the library A new page can also be added by selecting an existing page layout from the library by using the Insert from library option in the Page menu This will bring up a Insert page from library window from which you can select a page layout Page 4 1 REPORTER out Choose library page User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Available pages Landscape Checking page gt Include Files Standard page Portrait j Checking page Include Files i Standard page Initial velocity and last state Initial velocity and last state LG Highlight the page layout you want by clicking on it with the mouse and then clicking on then OK button to create the new page The Cancel
158. erent ways Attributes of using D3PLOT objects The first and by far the easiest is to use the Capture button to create the object The second is to Type Croppina use an existing D3PLOT YP P pp ng command file to create the output from D3PLOT Job files Choose If the Bitmap output type is CO chosen the Cropping Bitmap file Ch ame button can be used to crop away parts of the image from the top bottom left Command file Be and right before showing it See section 5 4 2 for more l Data file Ch Pen details Geometry Name d3ploti Bottom left X 27 Bottom left Y 177 0 Width 78 Height 58 0 There are two different options for the type of output generated from Attributes D3PLOT e Bitmap indicates that the output is a bitmap file e Blank indicates that the D3Plot object will not create any output on decal as the page Type Bitmap v Bitmap file Blank 6 1 1 Using Capture to create a D3PLOT object The easiest way to create a D3PLOT object is to use the Capture command If you press the button REPORTER starts D3PLOT for you You can now open the model s and do whatever operations you want inside D3PLOT such as rotating zooming blanking selecting the state setting colours etc Page 6 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Once you are happy with the image you Reporter Objects BIX have in D3PLOT press the Capture Reporter Objects Objects A_x
159. es generated report previously read with file argument to file orr script script js Runs javascript script script js argfile argfile Reads command line arguments from file argfile one argument per line This could be useful if you want to read lots of variables on the command line and you reach the command line length limit Automatically exit after processing all other command line options iconise Start REPORTER iconised This is useful for running reporter from scripts when you want to continue working on something else and you do not want the REPORTER window to interfere mu NCreatea new template Batch mode This stops REPORTER prompting the user For example normally if an error occurs when generating REPORTER brings up a warning box allowing the user to look at the error Giving the batch argument stops this Note that this does NOT make REPORTER run without the user interface see iconise On Windows run D3PLOT and T HIS without any windows being shown Combine multiple report output into pdf html or pptx Page A 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 So for example reporter file job templates example orr pdf local output pdf print printer varKEYWORD job keyword example key example deck html local example html exit SS Will 1 Load the file job templates example orr into REPORTER 2 Install a variable called KEYWORD with value job keyword example key a
160. es section As the values are changed the Cells section in the menu will be updated accordingly Page 6 20 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 7 2 Changing the margins for cells in the table The margins for the cells in the table can be changed using the margins button in the Attributes section lt Edit margins Margins Left 1 0 Top 1 0 Right 1 0 Bottom 1 0 6 7 3 Seeing what is in each cell The attributes section of the menu shows a simplified view of the table in a spreadsheet form in the Cells section Cells which have text present in them are shown using the correct font font colour and size so you can quickly see you have the correct settings Attributes Name table1 Rows 3 Reset heights Columns 3 Reset widths Cells Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 prievvevescusvssvsvevevssvsvessvervesssuverseeg abcd abcdef asnAAnaaABAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARARAAAARAAAAAARABAAL IRow2 abedefehijkl abcd abcdef row3 abcdefghijkl abcd abedefe Page 6 21 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 7 4 Changing cells Attributes Name table1 Rows 3 Resetheights Columns 3 Reset widths Cells Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Rowi faeces acd abcdef Row2 abedefghijkl abcd abcdef Row3 abcdefghijkl abcd abcdefe Cell pro
161. escription Fill an area in an image with a colour Arguments r X coordinate of start position for fill Y coordinate of start position for fill Tolerance for colour matching 0 255 Default is 0 When filling a shape if the red green and optional blue components are within tol of the colour of pixel x y the pixel will be filled with the current fill colour Return type no return value Example To fill an area of image idata starting at point 30 20 with red idata fillColour red idata Fill 30 20 Line x1 integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer Description Draw a line on an image Arguments X coordinate of start position for line Y coordinate of start position for line X coordinate of end position for line Y coordinate of end position for line Return type no return value Example To draw a blue dashed line width 2 pixels on image idata starting at point 30 20 and finishing at point 100 50 idata lineColour blue idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE DASH idata Line 30 20 100 50 Page D 35 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Load filename string Description Load an image file gif png bmp or jpeg Arguments Imagename you want to load Return type no return value Example To load the image file data test image jpg into the image object idata idata Load data test image jpg
162. ext size or the margins will help to fix any problems Page 7 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 7 4 Combining output from multiple reports If REPORTER generates several templates and saves them as reports see section 3 4 for more details then it is sometimes useful to combine the output into a single pdf html or pptx file The easiest way to do this is to use the REPORTER options in the SHELL See the SHELL manual for more details It can also be done on the command line in REPORTER by using the combine command line argument For example if you wanted to combine the output from 3 reports to a pdf file and a PowerPoint file this could be done with the command reporterll exe combine reportl orr report2 orr report3 orr pdf combined pdf ppt combined pptx exit Page 7 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page 7 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 8 Working with Variables A main feature of REPORTER is that you create a template from which a report can be generated This allows you to create a standard template for a project and then use that template to automatically create a report for a number of model runs This is mainly achieved through the use of variables Variables are defined with a name and a value which can be a number or a text string for example Variable Name CURRENT PAGE MODEL DIR data test tubel JOB FILE tube_testl The main advantage of usin
163. f the page titles in the file contained an ampersand amp This was because the ampersand was not escaped properly when writing the template This has been fixed Fixes bug 21235 You can now specify an outline border for file image objects Fixes enhancement 18206 REPORTER can now use D3PLOT to generate multiple images in one session The second and subsequent images are automatically created as image file objects linked to the d3plot object Fixes enhancements 7777 and 13034 A JavaScript can now be run for D3PLOT and PRIMER objects Fixes enhancement 15550 When capturing an image from D3PLOT REPORTER now automatically shows the images Fixes enhancements 7779 and 10668 A new PRIMER object has been added Fixes enhancements 8095 and 16530 REPORTER can now write PowerPoint pptx files directly Fixes enhancement 11858 REPORTER can now combine multiple reports into a single pptx pdf html Fixes enhancements 7712 8956 9020 and 10742 REPORTER could think that a script had changed when cancelling from the editor if the script was created on windows but edited on unix Fixes bug 7769 When writing a pdf file jpeg images are now written as jpegs rather than pngs as they can be much smaller Fixes enhancement 17920 Added the ability to see the item generation order Fixes enhancement 18489 Version 10 2 REPORTER did not automatically change LS DYNA filenames from h3hsp to DEFAULT_JOB otf and visa versa when importing a library
164. f you press No or the LST file does not contain the required informtion REPORTER will inform you that it will start PRIMER so you can select the required information interactively Starting Primer Primer will be started so you can select the required information After pressing OK PRIMER will start the first model in the LST file will be read in and a window will be open for you to interactively select the required information Select the information in the same way as described in the single analysis template section On returning to REPORTER you should be prompted to select the LST file for the upper leg impacts This follows the same process as for the lower LST file If you do not want to process the upper leg impacts or you don t have an LST file press cancel in the file selector So long as you have selected at least one LST file the template should generate Finally you will be asked for a directory where REPORTER should write any images Page B 29 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Press OK and select the directory REPORTER should now have all the information it needs T HIS will load and carry out the post processingg according to the selected protocol generating the required graphs Once this is finished REPORTER will ask a final question asking you how if you want to save the report BR Save Report Select how you would like to save the report and press OK Press Cancel if you
165. filetypes Reporter would silently change any d3hsp d3thdt and d3plot definitions to DEFAULT_JOB otf gt DEFAULT_JOB thf and DEFAULT_JOB ptf and there was no way to undo this change Now if you change the preference interactively Reporter looks to see if any filenames need updating If they do then it asks you if you want to change them Similarly if you read a template Reporter checks and asks you if you want to change them However this is not done if the batch option has been set Fixes bugs 9782 10613 and 11438 Library scripts which retrieve data from the end otf file have been made significantly quicker Fixes bug 9479 It is now possible to have D3PLOT and FAST TCF objects that do not return images to REPORTER Fixes bugs 9028 and 9108 A new Expression variable type has been added that allows user to do simple maths with variables e g THREE ONE THREE TWO In fact it will evaluate the expression as a JavaScript expression so Math sqrt Math sin etc are also available Fixes bugs 9010 9017 and 9111 After reading in a template Reporter now shows the first page not the last page Fixes bug 9006 All dialog boxes in Reporter now have a maximise button to make them easier to resize if they need to be made bigger e g if editing a FAST TCF object Fixes bug 8793 Normal table objects have now been added to Reporter Closes enhancements 7233 7703 and 7704 Postscript output has been remove
166. ftware separate on the machine b A few machines on a small network each user has his own machine The top level administration directory can be Central server installed on a network server possibly also locating the manuals centrally OA_ADMIN_xx Manuals top Each user s machine has its own installation z s level oa_pref file directory to give good performance but there is no need to manage home or temporary directories centrally since each user owns his machine If network performance is good an alternative would be to install executables on the central server meaning that local OA_INSTALL directories are not required OA_INSTALL Executables local preference file OA_INSTALL Executables local preference file Machine 1 Machine 2 c Large corporate network There is no need to worry about separating administration and installation directories and the default installation of all files in and below the single installation directory will suffice OA_ADMIN_xx Top level oa_pref file User manuals Timeouts file Many machines each with OA_INSTALL Page G 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Dynamic configuration using the top level oa_pref file A further improvement is that all environment variables below OA_ADMIN xx may either be set explicitly or dynamically using the options in the oa_pref file at the top OA ADMIN xx level This permits parall
167. g multiple copies of an item Additionally the pasted item is now selected Fixes bug 8861 On Solaris 10 it was possible what errors when generating T HIS objects did not get logged properly This meant that sometimes the user was not notified that an error occured This has now been fixed Fixes bug 8487 Version 9 2 1 Build 35 26 7 2006 Switching between templates on HP unix machines caused Reporter to get stuck in a loop refreshing the screen until the mouse was moved out of the template This has now been fixed Multiple spaces in arguments to external programs were simplified to a single space This was incorrect and has now been fixed Fixes bug 8857 Recapturing from T HIS could fail if there were multiple models This has now been fixed Fixes bug 8842 When capturing from D3PLOT and T HIS on Windows sometimes DEFAULT_DIR was not replaced in the filename This occured if slashes or did not match between the variable and filename Now fixed Additionally now if DEFAULT_DIR does not match REPORTER will try to use other Directory variables to match Fixes bugs 8314 and 8758 Compounded variables i e variables that contained variables did not expand correctly Now fixed Fixes bug 8669 Arguments to an external program which used variables that contained spaces would not be passed to the program correctly Now fixed Fixes bug 8666 Brackets and slashes in arguments to an external program could cause Reporter to ha
168. g the Fill colour button the Line colour button or Colour the Text colour button the current colour is displayed to the right of the button Text colour Clicking on this will bring up the Colour window The new colour can be selected from those on display or by clicking on the More colours button a set of red green and blue sliders can be brought up which you can use to create you own new colour For the Fill colour you can also select no colour which will give you a transparent Fill colour allowing object below to show through The Done button will exit this window setting the fill or line colour to the new colour The Cancel button will exit you without changing the colour Current colour New colour Se colour HTML code EI HTML code Ei OK Cancel 5 3 Inserting basic shapes 5 3 1 Lines and arrows You can create a line or arrow by using the Line and Arrow tools To create a line click and drag the mouse from the point you want the line to start from to the point you want the line to end at It is the same procedure for creating an arrow with the arrow head appearing at the end point of the line The line type thickness and colour will be set to the current settings 5 3 2 Rectangles O You can create a box by using the Rectangle tool To create a box click and drag the mouse from one corner of the box to the other If the shift key is held down while doing this a perfect square can b
169. g variables is that if you have used variables when defining the various objects in the report template rather than having to go through the report and change all the various filenames and directory paths when you want to generate a report from a new model all you need to do is change the variables This can be done manually by editing the template in REPORTER or you could insert a program script into the template that would calculate and define all the necessary variables when REPORTER generates a report 8 1 User defined variables For example if you want to create a report template that has a number of images that are created by a D3PLOT command file If you want to use the template to generate reports for a number of models the problem is that the various filenames and directory paths will be different for each model e g Model Directory Path Crush Tube 1 data test tube 1 Crush Tube 2 Idata test tube2 Crush Tube 3 data test tube3 To get round this problem you can use a variable for the directory path called MODEL DIR and a variable for the job name called MODEL NAME When inserting the D3PLOT objects see Section 6 for more detail about inserting D3PLOT objects use the variables for the directory path and job name The variables need to be enclosed by signs to distinguish them from the rest of the text string 37 Edit D3Plot object information RIES Attributes Name d3plot1 Type Bitmap x Bitmap file ZMODE
170. ge D 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Grey70 static Description Creates a 70 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 70 grey i textColour Colour Grey70 Grey80 static Description Creates a 80 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 80 grey i textColour Colour Grey8 amp 0 Page D 13 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Grey90 static Description Creates a 90 grey colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to 90 grey i textColour Colour Grey90 Magenta static Description Creates a magenta colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to magenta i textColour Colour Magenta Page D 14 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER None static Description No colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the fill colour of item i to none i illColour Colour None RGB red integer green integer blue integer static Description Creates a colour from red green and blue components Arguments red red component of colour 0 255 green component of colour 0 255 blue
171. ge to get item from name string Item name Return type Item object or null if item cannot be found Example To get the item with name test on page p var item Item GetFromName p test Page D 44 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Page class The Page class gives access to pages in Reporter More Member functions Duplicate Generate GetAllltems Getltem index integer Page properties items read only The total number of items on the page master read only true if this is a master page object Detailed Description The Page class allows you to access the pages in templates that Reporter currently has open Constructor Page template 7emplate name optional string Description Create a new Page Arguments Name Description plate Template to create page in name optional Name for page empty if omitted Return type Page object Example To create a new blank Page object in template t var page new Page t Page D 45 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Details of functions Duplicate Description Duplicate a page Arguments No arguments Return type Page object Example To duplicate page p var dp p Duplicate Generate Description Generate a page Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example To generate page p p Generate Page D 46 User manual Vers
172. ged in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_LEFT_FEMUR_LOADCELL PASSENGER_LEFT_KNEE_ TRANSDUCER Spring PASSENGER_RIGHT_FEMUR_LOADCELL Page B 37 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 PASSENGER_RIGHT_KNEE_ TRANSDUCER STEERING _COL_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z ID for steering column intrusion in the Z direction Can be YES or NO Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD _ FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file Euro
173. ges in T HIS This is saved as a property of each template Added the iconise and oasys_batch command line options Checkbox for turning on off error checking during generation when an error was found was not working correctly Fixes bug 15143 Added the ability to set the format of a variable on the variable edit panel Closes enhancement 8819 Fixed problem with rounding errors on spinbox input values on edit panels Fixes bug 15548 When resizing moving a table object the relative width height of the columns rows is now maintained Closes enhancement 15546 Added a new library script for reading variables from a CSV file Closes enhancement 15476 The P key can now be used to swap between design view and presentation view Closes enhancement 9333 Fit page is now the default zoom level when opening a file Closes enhancement 13863 Added the ability to use the control key plus the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the page Closes enhancement 15516 Added the ability to distribute selected items evenly horizontally or vertically either to the page or within the currently selected items Closes enhancement 15509 Added the ability to align items to the top bottom left right of the the page Closes enhancement 9300 You can now specify an outline border for Oasys Ltd image objects Closes enhancement 15503 The escape key can now be used to deselect any selected objects It is still used to quit out of fullscreen mod
174. ges to Press OK and select the directory REPORTER should now have all the information it needs T HIS will load and carry out the post processingg according to the selected protocol generating the required graphs Once this is finished REPORTER will ask a final question asking you how if you want to save the report Page B 20 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Select how you would like to save the report and press OK Press Cancel if you don t want to save it Reporter report orr v PDF pdf HTML html Powerpoint pptx If you don t want to save the report just press Cancel If you do select the format s you want to save it in press OK and select where you want to save it in the file selector that will pop up The final report should look something like this with a front summary page showing the protocol scores in tables and as an image a pages to set default scores a page to set test point and blue zone scores and pages of head acceleration graphs for each impact point Page B 21 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014 EuroNCAP Head Impact Grid Method 2014 Total Score Precicted Score Default Green Score Correction Factor Default Green Score Total Blue Points Pedestrian Headforms alslelsTal lz nlalntalsialstal r a HEBER ASHER EHEBEHBZEHOEBE Preeand sccm bint ne the Cowes
175. gexp in parentheses maillletterlcorrespondence Parentheses have two effects firstly they group expressions together and secondly they identify parts of the regexp that we wish to capture Our regexp still matches any of the three words but now they are grouped together as a unit This is useful for building up more complex regexps It is also useful because it allows us to examine which of the words actually matched We need to use another assertion this time b word boundary b maillletterlcorrespondence b This regexp means match a word boundary followed by the expression in parentheses followed by another word boundary The b assertion matches at a position in the regexp not a character in the regexp A word boundary is any non word character such as a space a newline or the beginning or end of the string For our third example we want to replace ampersands with the HTML entity amp The regexp to match is simple amp i e match one ampersand Unfortunately this will mess up our text if some of the ampersands have already been turned into HTML entities So what we really want to say is replace an ampersand providing it is not followed by amp For this we need the negative lookahead assertion and our regexp becomes amp amp The negative lookahead assertion is introduced with and finishes at the It means that the text it contains amp in our example must not follow the expression that preceeds i
176. hancement 9026 It is now possible to set the background colour of cells in tables Closes enhancement 15319 A note object has been added for adding notes to the design view of a report Closes enhancement 13825 Version 9 4 2 Hyperlinks for HTML files are now converted to relative links Fixes bug 16138 If you inserted a normal program into a template by selecting the program tool and dragging an area Reporter would think that the object was a library program not a normal program Fixes bug 15133 Version 9 4 Reporter could crash when accessing variables after using the JavaScript method Template GetVariable Value with a variable name that did not exist in the template Fixes bug 14347 If a job file was selected before doing a capture for a T HIS object REPORTER would not try to substitute DEFAULT_DIR and other variables in the filename Now fixed Fixes bug 14329 If you modified an items outline fill or text colour or modified its line thickness or style this did not flag the template as requiring a save This has now been fixed Additionally templates which require saving are now marked with a in the window title Fixes bug 13960 Exiting from REPORTER using File gt close and using the top right window close button now gives the same error message and options to save any modified templates Previously the messages were different and this caused confusion to some users Fixes bug 13430 D3PLOT objects with
177. he Reporter Current Reporter Object Ren Y Objects floating window and returning to REPORTER again The old settings Tag file and properties files will be Reload Update Delete J overwritten 6 1 2 Creating multiple images from a single D3PLOT session You are not limited to making a single image in D3PLOT Using the Reporter Objects floating menu you can capture as many images as you want in a single D3PLOT session A tab will be created in the Edit D3Plot object window for each image you capture For example as well as making a von Mises stress image we may also want to make an image showing plastic strain Page 6 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 d3plot1 Job files C TEMP REPORTER test tube2 ptf Choose Pre JavaScript lt no script defined gt von Mises stress Plastic strain Bitmap file DEFAULT_DIR image2 png choose Command file automatically generated Data file Choose JavaScript lt no script defined gt Geometry Bottom left X Al Bottom left Y 144 0 Width a Height 89 0 E repay osans CO Car Each image has its own properties and settings file and optionally extra command files and or a JavaScript In REPORTER an Image file is created for the second and subsequent images and these are linked to the parent D3PLOT object To help show which objects are linked together they are colou
178. he exported page into the library pages directory of your Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment installation It will then be shown the next time you start REPORTER Note that the title of the page is what will be shown in the library page tree so make sure that the page has a sensible title This can be changed using Page gt properties see Changing the page properties for more details So for example if you have a page called New library page and you put it in the library pages directory you will get zu Choose library page Available pages If you want the page to be shown in a different branch of the tree then edit the file using a text editor and change the file as follows The first line should look like lt REPORTER FILETYPE page VERSION 92 gt LG If I wanted a branch in the tree to be Arup Example library pages portrait I would change this to lt REPORTER FILETYPE page VERSION 92 FOLDER Arup Example library pages portrait gt The page would then be shown in the tree as i Choose library page IEG Available pages l portrait New library page 4 Page B 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER B 5 Adding scripts to the library REPORTER has a javascript interpreter built into it The scripts which are available in the library are run inside REPORTER To add a new script to the library save it into the
179. his is not specified the template will write images in the same directory as the keyword file LOWER_LEG_LST_FILE Lower leg Ist filename UPPER_LEG_LST_FILE Upper leg Ist filename EuroNCAP Side MDB 2014 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a side MDB impact based on the 2014 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER_HEAD_NODE 100000 e CHEST_UPPER_RIB_SPRING 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are ABDOMEN_FORCE_MID_BEAM ABDOMEN_FORCE_REAR_BEAM CHEST_BOTTOM_RIB_SPRING Spring CHEST_MIDDLE_RIB_SPRING Spring UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft CHEST_UPPER_RIB_SPRING Spring ID for chest upper rib compression Page B 49 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name
180. how in dialog If omitted null or an empty string is given then the default optional message will be used update boolean Whether the variables in the template will be updated with the new values if OK is pressed optional Setting this to be false allows you to check variable values before updating them from a script If omitted the default is true variables array A list of variables to show in the dialog If omitted null or an empty array all variables will be optional shown columns constant Columns to show in the dialog as well as the variable value column Can be a bitwise OR of optional Variable NAME Variable TYPE Variable DESCRIPTION Variable FORMAT and Variable PRECISION If omitted columns will be shown for name and description Return type Object containing the variable names and values or null if cancel was pressed Example To edit all of the variables in template var variables template EditVariables To edit variables TEST and EXAMPLE in template giving a title and a message returning the edited values but not updating them in the template var variables template EditVariables Edit variables Type in the values false TEST EXAMPLE Page D 55 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ExpandVariablesInString string string Description Replaces any variables in a string with their current values Arguments The string you want to expand variables in Re
181. iable in name of the variable you want the Variable object for Return type Variable object or null if variable does not exist Example To get the Variable object for variable EXAMPLE in template t var v Variable GetFromName t EXAMPLE Page D 74 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Remove Description Remove a variable Note that if you call this function for a Variable object the Variable data will be deleted so you should not try to use it afterwards Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example To remove variable data data Remove Page D 75 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page D 76 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER E Writing external programs scripts Programs or scripts for REPORTER that do some external function can be written in any language It is up to you if you prefer to use a scripting language such as Perl Python Tcl etc or a compiled language such as C or Fortran Anything which a program prints to stdout standard output will be returned to REPORTER the one exception to this is returning variables which is described below Returning variables from programs To return a variable back to REPORTER output a line that take the form VAR lt NAME gt VALUE lt value gt DESCRIPTION lt description gt or VAR lt NAME gt VALUE lt value gt It will not inserted into the report as text but will
182. ights could be too high on Internet Explorer and additionally text that was too big for a cell was not cropped Fixes bug 13846 Once a Capture has been done for D3PLOT or FAST TCF objects the Capture button is changed to say Update capture as it was not clear that pressing the button again would allow you to change the existing capture rather than starting again from scratch Closes enhancement 13757 PowerPoint output could sometimes only be done once for each Reporter session Now fixed Fixes bug 13873 Page ranges set by the user in the printer dialog were ignored and the whole report was printed Now fixed Fixes bug 13887 The Hyperlink dock box was not mapped correctly when a hyperlink was clicked A similar problem occurred with the master page dock box Fixes bug 13827 Clicking on a hyperlink that referred to a non existant report could crash Reporter Fixes bug 13836 PDF output for table cells was not cropped if it was too large for the cell Page 0 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Fixes bug 13883 If you edited an existing FAST TCF object that used variables somewhere in the script and you pressed capture to change the script REPORTER prompted you to try to replace text with variables in the new script but no replacements were done Now been fixed Fixes bug 13833 Image cropping has been added for Image ImageFile D3PLOT and Fast tcf objects Closes enhancement 12854 Text
183. ile you choose For example selecting a file data demo test key by using Browse would result in the following Variable type Part of file that is extracted File absolute data demo test key File basename i Filta Format the format settings allow you to specify how the variable value is displayed within the REPORTER presentation view Available options are e Floating point number displays a number variable as a floating point number The number of decimal places can be specified using the precision setting e Scientific number displays a number variable as a scientific number The number of decimal places can be specified using the precision setting General number this uses the shorter of the floating point or scientific methods above Integer displays a number variable as an integer Uppercase displays a string type variable in uppercase Lowercase displays a string type variable in lowercase The setting used here is applied to everywhere the variable is displayed in the report unless a local format setting is used The format setting does not change the underlying value of the variable You then click on the OK button to store this new variable The Cancel button will just exit you from this window The only variables which can be edited are the user defined ones you create yourself To edit a variable select the Variable option in the File menu to bring up the Variables window You can edit the descripti
184. indLineContaining containl string contain2 optional string contain3 optional string containn optional string FindLineMatching regex RegExp FindLineStarting startl string start2 optional string start3 optional string startn optional string Flush ReadChar ReadLine ReadLongLine Seek position integer Write string Any valid javascript type File constants File APPEND Flag to open file for appending File EOF Flag to indicate end of file File READ Flag to open file for reading File WRITE Flag to open file for writing Detailed Description The File class allows you to read text and write text to files There are various functions available that allow to to find lines matching specific strings or regular expressions when reading Additionally there are a number of utility functions to check if a file exists or is a directory etc Page D 18 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Constructor File filename string mode constant Description Create a new File object for reading and writing text files Arguments filename string Filename of the file you want to read write If reading the file must exist If writing the file will be overwritten if it already exists constant The mode to open the file with Can be File READ File WRITE or File APPEND Return type File object Example To create a new file object to read file da
185. ion 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER GetAllltems Description Gets all of the items from a page Arguments No arguments Return type Array of Item objects Example To get all of the items on page p var items p GetAllltems Getltem index integer Description Get an item from a page Arguments The index of the item on the page that you want to get Note that indices start at 0 Return type Item Example To get the Ist item on page p p GetItem 0 Page D 47 REPORTER Reporter class User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 The Reporter class contains constants for use in REPORTER Mote Reporter constants Reporter CapFlat Reporter CapRound Reporter CapSquare Reporter JoinBevel Reporter JoinMitre Reporter JoinRound Reporter JustifyBottom Reporter JustifyCentre Reporter JustifyLeft Reporter Justify Middle Reporter JustifyRight Reporter JustifyTop Page D 48 This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter CAP_FLAT instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter CAP_ROUND instead deprecated This constant is dep
186. ion value As above but TRUE if the value is less than the condition value As above but TRUE if the value is between the two condition values As above but Ba ee if the value is not between the two condition values contains contains string Treats the value as a Treats the value as a string TRUE ifthe value contains the condition string TRUE if the value contains the condition string does not Treats the value as a string TRUE if the value does not contain the condition string contain Pe matches regex regex Treats the value as a Treats the value as a regular expression TRUE if the regular expression matches expression TRUE if the regular expression matches does not Treats the value as a regular expression TRUE if the regular expression does not match match regex 10 2 1 Regular expressions REPORTER understands most of the basic operators of perl regular expressions This section gives a brief introduction into regular expressions or regexps For more details please see a suitable book on regular expressions such as Programming Perl Regexps are built up from expressions quantifiers and assertions The simplest form of expression is simply a character e g x or 5 An expression can also be a set of characters For example ABCD will match an A or a B ora C or a D As a shorthand we could write this as A D If we want to match any of the captital letters in the English alphabet we can write A Z A qu
187. ket For example abc matches a or b or c but Aabc matches anything except a or b or c The dash is used to indicate a range of characters for example W Z matches W or X or Y or Z Using the predefined character set abbreviations is more portable than using character ranges across platforms and languages For example 0 9 matches a digit in Western alphabets but d matches a digit in any alphabet Quantifiers By default an expression is automatically quantified by 1 1 i e it should occur exactly once In the following list E stands for any expression An expression is a character or an abbreviation for a set of characters or a set of characters in square brackets or any parenthesised expression Matches zero or one occurrence of E This quantifier means the previous expression is optional since it will match whether or not the expression occurs in the string It is the same as E 0 1 For example dents will match dent and dents Matches one or more occurrences of E This is the same as E 1 MAXINT For example 0 will match 0 00 000 etc Matches zero or more occurrences of E This is the same as E 0 MAXINT The quantifier is often used by a mistake Since it matches zero or more occurrences it will match no occurrences at all For example if we want to match strings that end in whitespace and use the regexp s we would get a match on ever
188. le File EOF Flush Description Flushes a file opened for writing by a File object Arguments No arguments Return type No return value Example To flush File object f Flush Page D 25 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 IsAbsolute filename string static Description Check if a filename is absolute Arguments Filename you want to test if absolute Return type true false Example To see if the file data test file key is absolute if File IsAbsolute data test file key do something IsDirectory filename string static Description Check if a filename is a directory Arguments Filename you want to test to see if it is a directory Return type true false Example To see if data test is a directory if File IsDirectory data test do something Page D 26 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER IsFile filename string static Description Check if a filename is a file Arguments Filename you want to test to see if it is a file i e not a directory Return type true false Example To see if data test is a file if File IsFile data test do something Mkdir name string static Description makes a directory Arguments Directory you want to create Return type true if successful Example To make directory data test if it does not exist if Fi
189. le IsDirectory data test File Mkdir data test Page D 27 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ReadChar Description Reads a single character from a file opened for reading by a File object Arguments No arguments Return type character read from file or File EOF if end of file Example Loop reading characters from File object f var C while c ReadChar undefined ReadLine Description Reads a line from a file opened for reading by a File object To enable this function to be as fast as possible a maximum line length of 256 characters is used If you expect a file to have lines longer than 256 characters then use ReadLongLine which allows lines of any length Arguments No arguments Return type string read from file or File EOF if end of file Example Loop reading lines from File object f var line while line file ReadLine File EOF Page D 28 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER ReadLongLine Description Reads a line from a file opened for reading by a File object The line can be any length If your file has lines shorter than 256 characters then you may want to use ReadLine instead which is faster Arguments No arguments Return type string read from file or File EOF if end of file Example Loop reading lines from File object f var line Di line file ReadLongLine File EOF
190. le thf wh te tag TotalEnergy lab Total Energy wh ie tag InternalEnergy lab Internal Energy wh ke tag KineticEnergy lab Kinetic Energy Geometry Bottom left x width Bottom left v 60 0 Height 100 0 Page 6 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 2 2 Using your own FAST TCF script to create a T HIS object If you want to make your own FAST TCE script in a T HIS object then fill in the Image file and Job file yourself You can load an existing FAST TCF script by using the Load button or type in the script In this case the Image file must correspond to the name of the image you create in the script 6 2 3 Using a command file to create a T HIS object The alternative method to S 2 create a T HIS object is to Edit T HIS object information create a command file yourself in T HIS which Attributes creates the image Make sure that Type is set to wel gassi T HIS command file Type T HIS command file v In this case the Image file f must correspond to the name Output Bitmap Cropping of the image you create in the command file Give the name Bitmap file MODEL_DIR energy bmp of the Command file and the Job file Job file MODEL_DIR MODEL_NAME thF Command file MODEL_DIR example tcF Geometry Bottom left x Bottom left Y Width Height Capture 6 2 4 Editing T HIS objects
191. ll we use the standard Math abs function and calculate a value accordingly To create a new variable we use the Variable constructor This takes the template the variable name description and value as arguments Finally maths in javascript is performed in double precision so the value we calculated will be given to many significant figures We are not interested in this so we use the standard Number toFixed function to limit the number of decimal places to 2 The source code for this example is available here Example 2 Magnitude from the three vector components Problem Given three variables X Y and Z calculate the vector magnitude and store it in a variable LENGTH Solution Get variable values from template var x reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue X var y reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue Y var z reporter currentTemplate GetVariableValue Z Check that the variables exist if x null throw Error no X variable n if y null throw Error no Y variable n if z null throw Error no Z variable n Extract numbers from variables var X parseFloat x parseFloat y parseFloat z lt lt o w RR NK rl Check that the variables are valid numbers if isNaN X throw Error X x is not a valid number n if isNaN Y throw Error Y y is not a valid number n if isNaN Z throw Error Z z is not a valid number n
192. ll save a copy of the object s This can then be imported elsewhere using Edit Import Locked allows you to lock an item on the page so it cannot be moved by dragging with the mouse See section 5 8 for more details Generate will perform any actions required to make the output for the object s See section 7 for more details Send to back will send the selected item s behind all the rest of the items on the page Send back one will send the selected item s behind the next item behind it Bring forward one will bring the selected item s in front of the next item in front of it Bring to front will bring the selected item s in front of all other items on the page Align Page Left will align the selected item s horizontally with the left hand side of the page Align Page Centre will centre the selected item s horizontally on the page Align Page Right will align the selected item s horizontally with the right hand side of the page Align Page Top will align the selected item s vertically with the top of the page Align Page Middle will centre the selected item s vertically on the page Align Page Bottom will align the selected item s vertically with the bottom of the page Also note that some of these options are also available through the Edit menu When multiple items are selected you also get the following options on the popup menu Align Left will align the selected items horizontally with the left most select
193. lour properties blue read only Colour blue component 0 255 green read only Colour green component 0 255 red read only Colour red component 0 255 Detailed Description The Colour class is used to define colours either by predefined colours or by RGB values The easiest way to set the colour of something is to use the predefined colour methods e g to set the text colour of item i to red i textColour Colour Red For other colours use Colour RGB Page D 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Details of functions Black static Description Creates a black colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to black i textColour Colour Black Blue static Description Creates a blue colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to blue i textColour Colour Blue Page D 8 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Cyan static Description Creates a cyan colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to cyan i textColour Colour Cyan Green static Description Creates a green colour Arguments No arguments Return type Colour object Example To set the text colour of item i to green i textColour Colour Green Page D 9 REPO
194. lts needed for the protocol the template needs model information such as Node IDs Beam IDs the unit system etc This needs to be supplied to the template either from a CSV file or from comments written in the keyword file after the END keyword The template will help you to create this information you should only need to do this ONCE for a particular vehicle programme so long as IDs remain the same Further information on the format of the data can be found in section B 8 4 The template will scan the keyword file to see if it contains the required information after the END keyword If it does you will be asked if you want to use it Page B 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER In order to extract the required data the template requires information such as Node IDs Beam IDs the model unit system etc This information can be stored either as post END data in the master keyword file or in a csv file Your keyword file already has this information stored as post END data Do you want to use the post END data s J no If you press Yes then the next few questions will not be asked If you press No or the keyword file doesn t contain the required information after the END keyword you will be asked if you have a CSV file with the information instead In order to extract the required data the template requires information such as Node IDs Beam IDs the model unit system etc This informa
195. ly available If you request a size that is not available the one that is displayed could be the wrong size To get a list of the fonts and sizes on your unix machine use the command x1sfonts If you are trying to see how much space some text will take up in the presentation view try zooming into the page This may help 4 2 REPORTER doesn t have xxxx capability Can you add it We will try Please contact Oasys Ltd support to discuss it Page C 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER D JavaScript class reference This appendix documents the javascript classes that REPORTER uses for scripting It is not an introduction to scripting See chapter 11 for that REPORTER extends the javascript interpreter with the following new classes The The Colour class defines colours in REPORTER i class defines colours in REPORTER The File class allows you to read and write from text files in REPORTER ge The Image class allows you to create bitmaps in REPORTER The Item class gives access to items in REPORTER In addition REPORTER also adds some new methods to the global Javascript object Page D 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 global class The global class is the root object in Javascript More Class functions Batch Debug string Any valid javascript type Exit0 LogError arg1 Any valid javascript type Any valid javascript type LogPrint argl Any valid javascript type
196. mand line argument to ensure that they are full screen The FAST TCF and T HIS tools are now combined into one tool as people found having two tools confusing Fixes enhancement 7818 Reporter now has different cursors depending on which tool is used Fixes enhancement 7817 Variables can now be given a type to help manage distinguish them File and directory variables can now be browsed for Fixes dynatrack cases 7688 and 6857 You can now find and loop over all the warnings and errors written to the logfile If an error occurs when generating Reporter now shows a dialog box to tell the use and gives the ability to show the error Fixes bug 7771 Added this changelog to the help menu in Reporter Added ability to create drag etc in presentation mode Fixes dynatrack bug 7766 Added hand tool to presentation view which allows you to follow hyperlinks etc Added a write Report option in the file menu to make saving as a report easier previously you had to do SaveAs and change filetype Fixes enhancement 7778 Reporter now remembers the directory from the last file you selected and uses that as the start directory for the next file selection Fixes enhancement 7714 Added powerpoint size as a page size Fixes enhancement 7709 Existing bitmaps are now deleted before generating advanced objects This is to guard against picking up old data by mistake Fixes enhancement 7772 Variables now have their own menu Fixes enhancement 7819
197. manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER setting The Conditions button see section 10 enables the user to apply conditional formatting to the text The OK button will exit this windows and add the new object to the template The Cancel button will exit this window without adding anything to the report 6 6 3 Editing library objects Library objects can be edited in exactly the same way as the simple shape objects See section 5 for more details Page 6 19 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 7 Table objects Enter Table information Attributes Name table15 Rows 2 Reset heights Columns 2 a Reset widths Cells Column 1 Column 2 Cell properties Text Font Choose Library yvperlink Conditions Height 0 0 Program arguments Add Remove Edit Geometry Bottom left x F Bottom left 127 0 width 163 Height 51 0 C When generating save to CS file Choose A table allows you to easily line things up on a page in REPORTER To create a table drag the area on the page that you want to be a table The menu to the right is then mapped 6 7 1 Changing the number of rows or columns in the table By default a table will have 2 rows and 2 columns and initially each cell in the table will be blank The number of rows and or columns is changed using the Rows and Columns spin boxes in the Attribut
198. master 4 10 2 Changing a page master To change the page master use Page Page master to get to the page master in use only one page master per REPORTER template Once you have finished editing the page you can close it and return to the normal pages Page 4 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 4 11Page Setup To set up the page settings choose the Page setup option from the File menu This allows you to change the page size and orientation If the page size and or orienation is changed objects on existing pages are automatically moved to ensure that they are not outside the page boundaries 4 12 Generating a single page Paper size Size x Width 297 0 mm Height 210 0 mm Orientation Portrait Landscape Instead of generating the entire report you can generate a single page by using the Generate page option in the Page menu However note that if some of the objects on the page require data that would be generated on previous pages and those pages have not yet been generated the page generation will not work Page 4 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page 4 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 5 Inserting and editing simple objects REPORTER allows you to create and edit a number of different shapes through the use of the Style 8x various Tools and Style button options gt les 5 1 Using the Grid and Snap options
199. mesteps Text output These programs scripts are designed to extract from the OTF file the 5 elements with the smallest timesteps and write out the data as text to the standard output They also output the smallest timestep as a REPORTER variable called TIMESTEP Note that these programs scripts are only simple examples and as such don t have all the necessary error checking that should be included They work by searching the OTF file for the text string 100 smallest timesteps which appears towards the end of the model initialization section and then reading in relevant element data from this list An example of this section of an OTF file is shown below The one argument for this program script is the OTF filename for example tube2 otf The LS DYNA time step size should not exceed 0 133E 05 to avoid contact instabilities If the step size is bigger then scale the penalty of the offending surface 0 t 0 0000E 00 dt 0 00E 00 flush i o buffers 100 smallest timesteps element timestep shell 16620 0 66873E 06 shell 16619 0 66873E 06 shell 16612 0 66873E 06 shell 16611 0 66873E 06 shell 16572 0 66873E 06 shell 16571 0 66873E 06 shell 16564 0 66873E 06 shell 16563 0 66873E 06 shell 16520 0 66873E 06 shell 16519 0 66873E 06 shell 16512 0 66873E 06 shell 16511 0 66873E 06 shell 16504 0 66873E 06 shell 16503 0 66873E 06 shell 16472 0 66873E 06 Example programs to extract the data are shown in 4 languages e C shell script e For
200. mplate in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e ADULT_LST_FILE C adult Ist e CHILD_LST_FILE C child 1st e etc The arguments can be ADULT_BOUNDARY_FILE Adult boundary filename This is a CSV file of the X and Y coords of the boundary for the adult impact zone It can be created automatically from the pedestrian markup script in PRIMER ADULT_LST_FILE Adult lst filename Page B 54 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER CHILD_BOUNDARY_FILE Child boundary filename This is a CSV file of the X and Y coords of the boundary for the child impact zone It can be created automatically from the pedestrian markup script in PRIMER CHILD_LST_FILE Child Ist filename IMAGES_DIR optional Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the same directory as the keyword file IIHS ODB XIV Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a front ODB impact based on the IIHS version XIV protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER_HEAD_NODE 100000 e PASSENGER_HEAD_NODE 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are DRIVER_DUMMY_VERSIO
201. n that file is only read once from the first instance Locking Preference Options From version 9 4 onwards preference options can be locked If a preference option is locked in a file then that preference option will be ignored in any of the subsequent preference files that are read Therefore by locking a preference in a top level file in the hierarchy above eg in OA_ADMIN_ xx and then protecting that file to be read only an administrator can set preferences that cannot be altered by users since any definitions of that preference in their private oa_pref files will be ignored Preferences are locked by using a hash rather than an asterisk between the code name and the preference string For example primer maximise true Normal case using means an unlocked preference Page G 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER primer maximise true Locked case using These changes may be made either by editing the file manually or by using the preferences editor Page G 5
202. nable you to position the text how you want Justify Bottom Left Size 12 v Changing the vertical alignment can help when trying to align text with program Text Example text items The text colour will be set to the current Hyperlink Conditions text colour setting The OK button will exit this window and create the text The Cancel button will exit this window m Geometry without creating any new text Also a 1 570 v1 154 0 2 Hyperlink button see section 9 VW allows the user to set the text up as hyperlink and the Conditions button see section 10 enables the user to apply conditional formatting to the text 5 3 5 Textbox Text inside a box with multiple lines if necessary can be added by using the Textbox tool To add a textbox click and drag the mouse from one corner of the textbox you want to create to the other This will bring up a Textbox window Page 5 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Text can be added using the Text box You can also enter variables in the text by right clicking in the text box or pressing Ctrl I which will allow you to bring up an Insert variables window from which to select a variable The font style and size are set in the relevant boxes The horizontal and vertical justification of the text can be set independently to enable you to position the text how you want The text colour will be
203. nce If you want to just replace all instances without confirming each one in turn then press Yes to All No ves Yes to All Cancel Z Page 5 13 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 5 8 Locking items Edit Ctri E Delete Del It may be useful to lock objects on the page so that they cannot be moved by dragging The Locked option in the context menu available by right clicking on a selected item allows you to do this Cut Ctrl X Copy Ctrl C To lock at object first select it and then click on the Locked option If an object is locked it will be shown with a tick symbol It can be unlocked by Save Ctrl S clicking on Locked again y Locked Multiple objects can be locked or unlocked at the same time Toggling the Locked option will change the locked property of all of the selected items RR Once an item has been locked it cannot be dragged on the page It can still be moved by using the arrow keys and the size and or position can be altered in the edit panel You can see which items are locked in design view A locked item will be drawn with a small padlock symbol me d3plot1 1 Program D3Plot Filetype Bitmap Filename DEFAULT_I Job file C webgl Page 5 14 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 Advanced objects 6 1 D3PLOT objects D3PLOT objects allow you eh to include output from Edit D3Plot object information 2 D3PLOT in your template There are two diff
204. nclude debug information from D3Plot and THIS M Don t automatically exit from D3Plot and T HIS For more information on scripting please see chapter 11 6 10 Note objects L Enter text Attributes Name notel Text properties Note This is my note Geometry xi 79 0 s Y1 1230 0 Z Note objects are used to add simple notes to your REPORTER template They are only displayed in design view To add a note when in design view click on the note icon and click on the position on the page you wish to add a note The following window will be mapped The name is what is displayed on the screen The note is what is displayed when you hover the mouse over the note on the screen Page 6 28 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER e notel Page 6 29 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page 6 30 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 7 Generating and outputting reports 7 1 Effect of object order on generating a report The order the various objects are layed out on a page relates to the order in which they will be processed by REPORTER when it generates a report So if you have a program script that creates a variable in it s output that program script will need to be on the same page or an earlier page than the object that first uses the generated variable If it is on the same page it also needs to be earlier in the order of objects on the page th
205. nction toFixed to change the number of digits to appear after the decimal point If we wanted 2 decimal places then we could change the expression to SFORCE SAREA toFixed 2 which would change the value of STRESS to 3 33 Other useful functions are e toExponential n which formats the number in exponential scientific notation with n digits after the decimal point e toPrecision n which formats the number with n significant figures Page 8 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 9 Hyperlinks REPORTER currently allows you to create hyperlinks from the following object types e Text objects e Image objects e Table cells e D3Plot images with external data plots blob plots 9 1 Adding basic hyperlinks Objects that support hyperlinks will have a Hyperlink button Pressing it maps the hyperlink window a Edit hyperlink properties F aixi Link properties HTML link Browse PDF link Browse Report link Browse oma dh REPORTER can write HTML and pdf and can also save a generated report As all of these formats support hyperlinks you cannot give a single hyperlink that will work for all of the formats For this reason REPORTER allows you to give different links for each type For example in the image below the link is different for each type If you do not want links for a particular type then leave it blank ou Edit hyperlink properties Li
206. nd description example deck 3 Create a pdf file local output pdf 4 Print the file on printer printer 5 Create a HTML file local example html 6 automatically exit A 2 oa_pref options The oa_pref preferences file This file contains code specific preferences that can be used to modify the behaviour of Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment products It is optional and where entries or the whole file are omitted REPORTER will revert to its default settings oa_pref naming convention and locations The file is called oa_pref It is looked for in the following places in the order given e The site wide admin directory OA_ADMIN e The site wide Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment directory OA_INSTALL e The user s home directory HOME Unix Linux or SUSERPROFILE Windows The first encountered file will be used so this file can be customised for a particular job or user at will Files do not have to exist in any of these locations and if none exists the programme defaults will be used On Unix and Linux HOME on Unix and Linux is usually the home directory specified for each user in the system password file The shell command printenv or on some systems setenv will show the value of this variable if set If not set then it is defined as the directory for the user The command cd pwd will show this On Windows SUSERPROFILE on Windows is usually C Documents and Settings lt user id gt Issuing the set
207. nd design view Style toolbar to modify the line type colour etc of objects in the report Tools toolbar for creating and editing shapes and advanced objects Main Report Area Main working area u m File toolbar Do The file toolbar gives a quick way to create a new template open a template or save a template See chapter 3 for more details Page 2 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 View toolbar Q 61 tit The view toolbar gives a quick way of zooming in and out of the template This is the same as using the Zoom submenu from the View menu There are also 2 buttons which control the grid and snap tools Design toolbar Design 8x The first two buttons on the design toolbar buttons allow you to swap between the design view swiss army Knife icon and the presentation view directors chair icon See chapter 7 for more details By default the Design toolbar is docked on the left hand side However you can drag it and make it a floating menu if you wish The p keyboard shortcut can be used to pam toggle between design view and presentation view 3 The third button numbered list icon allows you to turn on off the generation order See section 2 5 4 for more details Style toolbar The style toolbar allows you to change the line width line style line colour fill colour and text colour for shapes See chapter 5 for more details By default the Style toolbar is docked
208. nes e g The variable names must start with a The lines with the model keyword files need to have three columns of data separated by commas FILENAME BLANK ZONE If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e FILENAME is the keyword filename e BLANK is a blank column e ZONE is the impact zone e g L_O L_1 L_ 1 etc e g XSECTION_TIBIA_UPPER_ID 100000 XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_UPPER_ID 200000 XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_LOWER_ID 300000 SPRING_PCL_ID 300000 SPRING_ACL_ID 300000 SPRING_MCL_ID 300000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model L_O I_0 key L_0 C Model L_1I I_1 key L_1 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are SPRING_ACL_ID ID for ACL displacement SPRING_MCL_ID ID for MCL displacement SPRING_PCL_ID ID for PCL displacement Page B 45 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us XSECTION_TIBIA_LOWER_ID Database ID for lower tibia moment CrossSection XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_ LOWER _ID Database ID for mid lower tibia moment CrossSection XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_UPPER_ID Database ID for mid upper tibia moment
209. ng Now fixed Fixes bug 8665 Fixed bug that caused spurious pages to be created when a page was duplicated Fixes bug 8716 Version 9 2 Build 34 24 5 2006 Fixed bug that caused the current page number on a master page to be incorrect when printing Fixes bug 8628 Fixed bug that caused corrupt pdf output if there were images on the master page Fixes bug 8629 Fixed problems with missing output from running external programs Adding a new page while an object was selected would erroneously leave the selection handles drawn on the new page Now fixed Fixes bug 8530 Fix problem in javascript File class that caused errors in File destructor Output from T HIS and D3PLOT was not written to the logfile for Solaris 10 Now fixed Errors and warnings from D3PLOT and T HIS are now fed to REPORTER via stderr so they now correctly come through as errors and REPORTER is aware of them The log window is now raised when it is mapped as previously it could get lost behind the main window Hyperlink rectangle produced in pdf files for text objects with hyperlinks is now correct if the text object used variables Fixes bug 8405 Objects that are not visible are now not selectable Fixes bug 8404 Version 9 2 Beta 4 Build 33 4 4 2006 Fix problem with centre justified text in HTML it was not positioned correctly as the style was incorrect Hyperlinks from objects other than tables containing variables now work correctly Hyperlinks now open a r
210. nged in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_LEFT_FEMUR_LOADCELL PASSENGER_LEFT_KNEE_ TRANSDUCER Spring PASSENGER_RIGHT_FEMUR_LOADCELL Page B 39 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 PASSENGER_RIGHT_KNEE_ TRANSDUCER STEERING _COL_INTRUSION_SPRING_Z ID for steering column intrusion in the Z direction Can be YES or NO Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be Name Description CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD _ FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the key
211. nk properties HTML link ZONE childhead html_files childhead_page html Browse PDF link ZONE childhead pat Browse Report link ZONE childhead opr Browse hd Hyperlinks can be relative or absolute if you use a relative hyperlink then it is relative to the current document 9 2 Adding hyperlinks in D3PLOT external data blob plots The data file which D3PLOT uses to create blob plots supports hyperlinks This enables the user to be able to click on one of the data values on the image and open the report for that data point The easiest way to create a data file for D3PLOT is with one of the D3PLOT data file library scripts e g below shows the script for generating a data file from reporter variables files Page 9 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 kos Choose library program D3Plot data file Create a D3Plot data file from a csv files ame fila Description Value 1 Directowrflename ZPRESENTER_DEFAULT_DIR 2 _ Data fie to create 2020 NTER_DEFAULT_DIR dplot datarfie 3 Variable for data point x coord LI 4 Variable for data point Y coord fz oo 5 Variable for data pointZ coord 2 5 8 Link for htm files false nolnk J gt ZUNE chidhesdhim 9 Link for pdf files false no ink _ J ZONE childhead pdf 10 Adaiional datafile abe nofie Take Arguments 7 8 and 9 allow you to give your hyperlinks in exactly the same way as a basic hyperlink
212. now move the object s If you click and drag when over the object s you can move them around the page The cursor keys can also be used to Nudge the items around If you move the mouse over one of the yellow handles you can resize the object s The cursor changes appropriately to indicate how the object s will be resized The escape key can be used to deselect all currently selected objects Resolution 150 dpi 2 Program Filetype Filename Job file Cmd file Cropping Hyperlink Y1 178 0 D3Plot Bitmap MODEL _DIR crushed_tube0 MODEL _DIR MODEL_NAMEZ MODEL _DIR tube_d3plt tc gt You can also right click on an object regardless of the mode the cursor is in If the object is not already selected it is selected and then a popup menu is displayed Page 5 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Ren clicking when editing an object will bring up a small popup menu Edit will bring up an Edit window for the object The Edit window will vary depending on what type of object is being edited Delete will delete the object s This can also be done by pressing the Delete key while editing the object s Cut will cut the object s from its current page place and make them available to be pasted in another place Copy will make a copy of the selected object s and keep them stored in the computers memory until they are pasted or another item is copied Save wi
213. nsistent The textboxes produced when writing a PowerPoint file directly were not resized to fit the text and textboxes produced from a visual basic macro would have different margins to those produced when writing a PowerPoint file directly This is now fixed Reporter would not play a d3plot command file with button click data correctly The button click data would be stripped from the command file and the commands treated as dialogue commands Now fixed Fixes bug 13027 In an automatically generated table column text entries containing variables would not generate correctly the variable would be replaced by a blank string if the variable name was in lower case Now fixed Fixes bug 12995 On some platforms when generating a report a warning message from T HIS and D3PLOT could be passed to REPORTER in two or more chunks it should be passed to reporter as a single string REPORTER would mistakenly think that the second and subsequent chunks were error messages and try to alert the user that an error occured This has now been fixed Fixes bug 12738 If a library object failed to generate properly e g if the otf filename was incorrect then the next time that Reporter generated the report you could get Cannot get File data in File destructor errors This has been fixed Fixes bug 12629 When writing tables to powerpoint directly or writing a visual basic macro the colour and width of table borders was ignored Now fixed Fixes bug 12733
214. nto another template by using Import page Individual pages should be saved with the extension orp so REPORTER can find them 4 10 Page masters Page masters can be used to automatically add objects to every page in the report For example you may want to have your project name written on the bottom right corner of every page in the report You could do this by having a standard page and either use the page library or import it each time you want to create a new page This will work however if in the future you want to edit the project name you would need to edit each page individually An alternative is to use page masters A master page can be created and any objects that you put on that page will automatically appear on every page in the template 4 10 1 Creating a page master To create a new page master use Page Page master Delete all pages In this version of REPORTER only one page master can be created per REPORTER template A page master is a type of template used to keep each page looking the same eg such Generate page as using a company logo The normal page creation window can then be used to create the page A normal blank page is created on which you can place objects as required An extra toolbar called Master appears as seen below By default this is docked at the bottom left below the Tools toolbar To close the master page and return to a normal page select Close master from the Master Master X toolbar Close
215. o generated Fri 25 Jan 09 21 42 2013 by REPORTER 11 0 build 538 11 Save the powerpoint presentation Writing PowerPoint files directly REPORTER can write PowerPoint files directly for Windows and Linux Older versions of REPORTER before version 11 0 could only do this for Windows if you had PowerPoint installed on your machine This is no longer the case Since version 11 REPORTER can write PowerPoint pptx files directly for Windows and Linux Select Write pptx and give the name of the PowerPoint file you want to create REPORTER will write the file Notes on PowerPoint output When you use textboxes text files and tables in REPORTER the output is clipped to the size of the object defined on the page PDF and HTML output also support this but it is not possible to control the size of a textbox in PowerPoint in PowerPoint a table is made up of a collection of textboxes When writing PowerPoint output be aware of the following limitations 1 If the text is too wide to fit in the textbox it will automatically be wrapped onto multiple lines by PowerPoint 2 If the combined height of the text the top margin and the bottom margin is greater than the height of the textbox PowerPoint will increase the height of the textbox to make it hight enough If the Powerpoint output is not aligned correctly or is not what you see in REPORTER it is likely to be caused by these problems Adjusting the size of the object the t
216. ober 2014 System string Any valid javascript type static Description Do a system command outside PRIMER Arguments Any valid javascript type The system command that you want to do Return type integer probably zero if command successful but is implementation dependant Example To make the directory example System mkdir example debug static This function is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Debug instead exit static This function is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Exit instead output static This function is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Output instead Page D 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Colour class The Colour class gives access to colours in Reporter More Class functions Black Blue Cyan Green Grey 100 Grey20 Grey300 Grey400 Grey500 Grey60 Grey700 Grey80 Grey90 Magenta None RGB ted integer green integer blue integer Red White YellowO Co
217. ome out as Date Wed Apr 9 11 00 00 2003 4 Geometry Page 8 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 8 3 Creating and editing variables Variables can be viewed edited and created by using the Edit option in the Variables menu Selecting this option will bring up the Variables window x ariables u 2 xI Variables for template ort CURRENT_PAGE Number Current page number DATE String Current date DEFAULT_DIR Directory Reporter default directory C Documents and Settings miles DEFAULT_JOB File basename Reporter default jobname REPORTER_HOME Directory Reporter home directory P oasys92 Yes REPORTER_TEMP Directory Reporter temp directory c temp orr2 Yes TOTAL_PAGES Number Total number of pages Yes USER_HOME Directory User home directory C Documents and Settings miles Yes USER_NAME String User name miles thornton Yes 2 New Edit Delete V When generating save variables to directory ZDEFAU LT_DIR Choose Help Cancel Some of the variable such as CURRENT_PAGE and REPORTER_HOME are standard variables that are predefined by REPORTER and these cannot be edited or deleted other user defined variables can be edited or deleted as you chose You can create a new variable by selecting New Then in the New variable box at the bottom of the window enter the necessary Variable name MODEL DIR details into the text boxes
218. omputer The positioning of the image can be changed The Cropping button can be used to crop away parts of the image from the top bottom left and right before showing it See section 5 4 2 for more details The OK button will exit this screen and create the object save the changes made The Cancel button will exit this screen without creating the object saving the changes Page 6 16 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 6 Library objects 6 6 1 Library images a u This option allows the user to a 5 view and select an image from Insert library image the selection held in the image library The resolution and i positioning of the image can Attributes also be set The OK button will exit this windows and add the image1 new object to the template The Cancel button will exit this window without adding ARU P Reporter anything to the report 360 x 120 540 x 137 keys S REPORTER 1004 x 285 Resolution 150 dpi gt See appendix B 3 Standard library images to insert library images Geometry Bottom left X 33 0 A Bottom left Y 207 0 Page 6 17 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 6 2 Library program script Uy Choose Library Program Attributes Name programi Program D3Plot data file H Keyword File NCAP OTF file Analysis date Analysis precision Analysis title CPU time for analysis Check on the quality of the run Hostn
219. on or value of a variable by clicking on the relevant description or value in the variable list and pressing Edit You cannot edit the variable name If you want to rename the variable you will have to delete the existing variable and re create it using the new name For more information on doing simple maths with variables by using the expression type see section 8 12 8 4 Creating a variable using an external program script Rather than using the Variables window to create and define a variable it is also possible to use a program script to create a variable See Appendix E for some examples of programs scripts When REPORTER generates a report and it runs an external program script any output lines that take the form VAR lt NAME gt VALUE lt value gt DESCRIPTION lt description gt or VAR lt NAME gt VALUE lt value gt will not inserted into the report as text but will be used to create a variable where e lt NAME gt will become the variable name e lt value gt will become the value of the variable e lt description gt will become the variable description here are a couple of examples Program Script Output Variable Name Page 8 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER So if you inserted a program script object Text output from a program script see Section 9 for more detail on inserting program script objects that s output was VAR SPEED VALUE 1000 then REPORTER would create a variable
220. or REPORTER please see Appendix E 4 The filename of the program script is entered in the Program text box or clicking on the Choose button will bring up a File window from which to select the program script You can also enter variables by right clicking in the text box which will allow you to bring up a Insert variableswindow from which to select a variable The various text parameters such as font and size can also be set The text parameters such as font justification size etc can be set for the text that will be captured from the program If the program needs arguments then any number can be added by using the Add button The Conditions button see section 10 enables the user to apply conditional formatting to the text from the program The OK button will exit this window and add the new program to the template The Cancel button will exit this window without adding anything to the report Page 6 13 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 4 2 Editing program objects Program objects can be edited in exactly the same way as the simple shape objects See section 5 for more details Page 6 14 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 5 File objects 6 5 1 Text files A Enter file and text information Attributes Name textfile1 Text properties we za om Font Courier v Size 12 b Geometry Bottom left x 31 0 Bottom left Y 2
221. or the argument in the window EXPAND ARGS Normally any variables in program arguments get expanded to their actual values and so you would omit this line There may be instances where you do not want to expand them In this case use the line EXPAND ARGS false e g see data_file_from_variables js END_ INFO This line indicates the end of the informat and must be included For example the following lines PROGRAM example js DESC Example program FOLDER examples programs RETURN text ARG argument1 defaultl ARG argument2 ARG argument3 default3 END_INFO ay would give the output Page B 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Pash Choose library program Attributes Name program2 Program 4 D3Plot data file l examples E programs i Example program H Keyword file OTF file Arguments Description Geometry x1 137 0 Y1 203 0 x2 1154 0 Y2 1141 0 oma Rules for writing scripts As REPORTER runs the scripts internally they have to be written in a specific way The following guidelines should be used for writing custom scripts for REPORTER If these guidelines are too restrictive or you do not want to work this way remember that you can write external programs for REPORTER in any language you choose See Appendix E for more details e Scripts must be written in javascript REPORTER contains a j
222. ord file EuroNCAP FFB 2015 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a front FFB impact based on the 2015 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER HEAD _ NODE 100000 e PASSENGER _HEAD_NODE 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are DRIVER_CHEST_TRANSDUCER ID for driver chest compression DRIVER_DUMMY_VERSION String Driver dummy version Can be V6_HUMANETICS_HIII_5TH_FEMALE or V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_5TH_FEMALE Use V6_HUMANETICS_HIN_5STH_FEMALE for V6 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIN_5STH_FEMALE for V7 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V7 Up to V6 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V7 a third order polynomial function is used PASSENGER_DUMMY_ VERSION String Passenger dummy version Can be V6_HUMANETICS_HII_5TH_FEMALE or V7_HUMANETICS_HII_5TH_FEMALE Use V6_HUMANETICS_HII_S5TH_FEMALE for V6 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIN_5STH_FEMALE for V7 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest defl
223. ound in section B 8 4 Page B 32 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER B 8 4 CSV file and Batch details CNCAP ODB 2012 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a front ODB impact based on the 2012 CNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER _HEAD_ NODE 100000 e PASSENGER _HEAD_NODE 200000 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are ACCN_PEDAL_INTRUSION_SPRING_X ID for acceleration pedal intrusion in the X direction DRIVER_DUMMY_VERSION String Driver dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HII_50TH_MALE or V8_HUMANETICS_ HII 50TH_MALE Use V7_HUMANETICS_HIII_ 50TH_MALE for V7 and earlier Humanetics dummies Use V8_HUMANETICS_HIII_50TH_MALE for V8 and later Humanetics dummies This is needed because the method for calculating chest deflections changed in V8 Up to V7 the chest transducer rotation is converted to compression using a linear function In V8 a third order polynomial function is used Page B 33 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 PASSENGER_CHEST_TRANSDUCER PASSENGER_DUMMY_VERSION String Passenger dummy version Can be V7_HUMANETICS_HII _50TH_MALE or
224. outines in visual basic macros written by Presenter are now automatically split if necessary to keep them below the 64k limit for VBA previously there was one Subroutine per page If a table with overflow pages is read from a report the overflow pages are now correctly displayed Previously you would have to regenerate or edit the table Added support for multiple models for T HIS and Fasttcf scripts PRESENTER_DEFAULT_DIR is now set to the user home directory instead of the temp directory when starting Setting it to the temp directory caused lots of problems e g the next time you start Presenter that directory probably won t exist New library script added to create D3Plot data files from csv file Bug fix When dragging new items they were sometimes not drawn properly Presenter thought that they were off the screen when they were not Dragging a new item is now double buffered so you don t get flicker New library script added to create D3Plot data files from variables file Presenter now tries to preserve variables in FAST TCE scripts when the user uses the capture feature to update the script If user does not type extension when saving file opt is now automatically added to the filename Added Ctrl V shortcut for Paste item Bug fix When you save a template using SaveAs the template name is now updated after the save to the new name Bug fix When a report was generated the template could lose the keyboard focus so PgUp PgDown
225. perties Text v abcdefghijklpgtxyz Choose Library Hyperlink width 80 8 Height 33 2 Program arguments Add Remove Edit To change a cell or cells click on the cell in the simplfified view or multiple select using Shift and or Ctrl The selected cells are highlighted in the simplified view and the Cell properties section of the menu becomes active The font can be changed with the Font button and hyperlinks and conditional formatting applied to the cell text using the Hyperlink and Conditions buttons By default all cells will have the same with and height but you can use the Width and Height spinboxes to alter the width of this cell and hence the width of all cells in the same column and the height and hence the height of all cells in the same row To reset widths and or heights back to be the same use the Reset heights and Reset widths buttons in the Attributes section Instead of just using text in the generated data you can run a program instead which could be a standard library program or an external program In this case the output from the program will be put in the table cell instead To use a program change the Cell type from Text to Program using the popup Once this is done the Choose and Library buttons and the Program arguments section become active Page 6 22 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 6 8 Autotable objects k x Ente
226. porary directory Created private temporary directory c tempsorr2 Looking for online manual P oasys92 manuals reporter reporter h Reading oa_pref file P oasys92 oa_pref Reading oa_pref file C Documents and Settings miles thornton oa Initialising javascript runtime Creating javascript context Creating javascript global object Creating javascript standard classes Defining global functions Setting error reporting function Creating javascript arguments array Creating Reporter classes initialising Reporter Class initialising File Class initialising Image Class initialising Template Class J Include debug information from D3Plot and THIS Next warning f Don t automatically exit from D3Plot and T HIS Next error You can save the contents of the log to a file using the Save option If warnings or errors have been given the Next warning and Next error buttons allow you to cycle through the warnings errors EL d Page 2 7 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 2 5 View Controls What is and isn t displayed on the screen and how far zoomed in or Insert Page Script Variak out the page is can be controlled from the View menu Arrows D3PLOT PRIMER amp T HIS Files Images Lines Note Ovals Programs Rectangles Script Table Text Se I 1 Full Screen Fil vV Design view Presentation view Generation order Zoom gt 2 5 1 Object display options What of type of object are visibl
227. porter _library scripts in the directory where REPORTER is installed Extra library programs can be added to this directory using the above logic However this may not be possible due to file permissions For this reason it is possible to specify another directory for REPORTER to use an addition to the default directory This can be done using the Library directory oa_pref option If this option is set then REPORTER will also treat this directory as a user defined reporter library directory Currently only scripts are supported as user library items i e images and pages are currently not supported User scripts should be put in a subdirectory scripts of your library directory For example if library directory is setto home user reporter library then you should put your scripts in home user reporter library scripts In future versions of REPORTER it may be possible to have user defined pages and images Page B 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 B 8 Standard library templates A number of standard templates have been created for automotive crash test protocols included as part of the installation They are located in the subdirectory reporter_library templates in the directory where REPORTER is installed The templates can be selected from within Reporter and after asking a few questions to get information needed to generate the report calculate results according to the protocol the template is following e g EuroNCAP
228. precated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JUSTIFY _LEFT instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JUSTIFY_MIDDLE instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JUSTIFY_RIGHT instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JUSTIFY_TOP instead deprecated User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Reporter LineDash This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter LINE DASH instead deprecated Reporter LineDashDot This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in
229. r Autotable information Attributes Name Jtablet Directory data DEMO CONFERENCE PEDESTRIAN_HEAD NCAP_RUNS_2 Choose Column properties Add Column header properties x Name ZONE Font Y Remove z Width 36 0 2 Reset HIC Move up RR Column generated data properties Text 2Z0NE Font Hyperlink Conditions Choose Library Arguments Add Remove Edit Geometry x1 8 0 Y1 29 0 x2 1200 0 Y2 1279 0 Header height f10 0 Generated data height 8 0 An autotable object in REPORTER is a table which REPORTER will create when the report is generated An an example you may want to run multiple analyses and produce a summary table with one line in a table for each analysis The autotable object allows you to do this The above image shows the menu to create a table for a set of pedestrian headform analyses We want to create a table with 5 columns as shown below the impact zone the x y and z impact points and the calculated HIC Page 6 23 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ZONE X Y Z HIC CIA C1B cic 694 404 1399 28 851 726 343 4052 C1D C2A To do this we would run each of the analyses and post process them with a REPORTER template Each analysis would calculate the ZONE X Y Z and HIC and store them as variables These variables would then be saved to a file called reporter va
230. r manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page B 60 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER C FAQ This section gives answers to some common questions which have been asked about REPORTER Over time this FAQ will be extended If the answer to your question is not here then contact Oasys Ltd for support C 1 Running REPORTER 1 Can I run REPORTER from the command line 2 Do need a license to run REPORTER 23 How do I get REPORTER to run automatically after my LS DYNA job finishes 4 How do I run REPORTER in batch mode C 2 Generating output Re eRe 2 1 None of my scripts programs work on windows C 3 Extending REPORTER 3 1 Can I write my own scripts 3 2 Can I add new scripts images pages to the library C 4 Other questions 4 1 Text appears to be bigger smaller on the screen than in a postscript pdf file 4 2 REPORTER doesn t have xxxx capability Can you add it Answers 1 1 Can I run REPORTER from the command line Yes you can See appendix A for a list of command line options 1 2 Do I need a license to run REPORTER To run REPORTER you need a valid license for REPORTER or alternatively a valid license for D3PLOT T HIS or PRIMER To get maximum benefit from REPORTER D3PLOT and T HIS are required 1 3 How do I get REPORTER to run automatically after my LS DYNA job finishes Use the Oasys Ltd shell to submit your job which has options to allow you to run REPORTER automatically 1 4 How do I run REPO
231. r model then the templates may not work correctly Page B 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER e Humanetics dummies should be used for any occupants e Intrusion measurements are made with springs Use ELEMENT_DISCRETE with a low stiffness value on the MAT_ SPRING_ELASTIC card Node 1 should be attached to the structure that is being measured and Node 2 should be attached to a nodal rigid body where there will be no deformation normally at the rear of the vehicle e g to measure the steering column intrusion in an ODB impact One spring will be needed for each intrusion measurement For the case above there are three springs overlaying each other one for intrusions in X one in Y and one in Z A vector should be used to define the orientation and should be aligned with the X Y or Z global axis depending on the measurement being made B 8 1 Single analysis templates All the single analysis templates follow the same process so we ll use the EuroNCAP Front ODB Impact template as an example for how to use them The section will describe how to run them interactively using the menus in REPORTER but it is also possible to run them in batch mode Page B 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Select the template a Open Library Template C NCAP Save Ctri S EuroNCAP gt Adult Occupant Protection 2014 Front ODB Impact E SaveAs F12 IHS R Pedestrian Protection
232. ract the timesteps awk smallest timesteps n 1 getline getline if n gt 5 n 5 t 1 0e 20 for i 0 i lt n i getline print 0 if SNF lt t t SNF END printf VAR TIMESTEP VALUE e n Sargv 1 Fortran program script c character 80 fname line integer elemno 5 real timestep 5 VAR TIMESTEP VALUE e n es n e e e er tmin from otf file search for smallest timestep save how many found skip a line skip a line limit to 5 timesteps initialise smallest timestep loop over lines read the line print it save timestep if smaller than current smallest t Print smallest timestep Page E 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER n iargc 1 e c Read in model name argument c call getarg 1 fname c Open model OTF file open unit 25 file fname status old c c Scan file for line with the text string c 100 smallest timesteps 10 continue read 25 a end 900 line if line 1 23 eq 100 smallest timesteps then goto 20 else goto 10 endif c Read in but ignore next 2 lines of data c 20 continue read 25 read 25 c Read in the element no and timestep data c from the next five lines c 101 format il0 102 format e23 0 c do 30 i 1 5 read 25 a line read line 7 16 101 elemno i re
233. re various functions available that allow to to draw lines rectangles ellipses text etc on a bitmap Constructor Image width optional integer height optional integer Description Create a new Image object for creating an image If no arguments are given a null 0 pixels wide by 0 pixels high is made If 2 arguments are given they are used as the width and height of the image Arguments width optional Width of image height optional Height of image Return type Image object Example To create a new image object 100 pixels wide by 50 pixels high var img new Image 100 50 Page D 33 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Details of functions Ellipse x1 integer y1 integer x2 integer y2 integer Description Draw an ellipse on an image Arguments X coordinate of start position for ellipse Y coordinate of start position for ellipse X coordinate of end position for ellipse Y coordinate of end position for ellipse Return type no return value Example To draw an ellipse with no fill and solid red border line width 2 pixels on image idata starting at point 30 20 and finishing at point 100 50 idata lineColour idata fillColour idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE SOLID idata Ellipse 30 20 100 50 W red A none Page D 34 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Fill xfinteger y integer tol optional integer D
234. recated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter CAP_SQUARE instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JOIN_BEVEL instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JOIN _MITRE instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JOIN ROUND instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JUSTIFY_BOTTOM instead deprecated This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter JUSTIFY_CENTRE instead deprecated This constant is de
235. red differently to normal objects The first group will be red the second green the third blue If you modify the parent D3PLOT object the child Image file objects will be added updated deleted as required Page 6 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 6 1 3 Using datafiles to create blob plots If a Data file is given then that is passed to D3PLOT to create an external data plot or blob plot An example plot is shown below In a data plot D3PLOT superimposes data values on the 3 dimensional shape For example below this is used to show HIC values for Euro NCAP analyses at various positions on the bonnet The easiest way of creating a data file is to use the standard library program in REPORTER See appendix B and the D3PLOT manual for more details wi Edit D3Plot object information Attributes Name d3plott Bitmap Job files Pre JavaScript lt no script defined gt von Mises stress C TEMP REPORTER test tube2 ptf REPORTER Bitmap file DEFAULT_DIR imagel png Command file automatically generated Data file DEFAULT_DIR data file JavaScript lt no script defined gt Geometry Bottom left X 35 0 2i Width 80 0 2 Bottom left Y 144 0 Height 89 0 E repay maserne Don Can Page 6 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 HIC Value 0 000 1 000 1 350 Page 6 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REP
236. rgument OR argument2 OR argument3 will be returned Arguments contain String which matching lines must contain maximum length of 256 characters contain optional alternative string which matching lines must contain maximum length of 256 characters contain3 optional string alternative string which matching lines must contain maximum length of 256 characters containn string alternative string which matching lines must contain maximum length of 256 optional characters Return type string read from file or File EOF if end of file Example Loop reading lines from File object f which contain example var line while line file FindLineContaining example File EOF Page D 23 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 FindLineMatching regex RegExp Description Reads a line from a file opened for reading by a File object To enable this function to be as fast as possible a maximum line length of 256 characters is used If you expect a file to have lines longer than 256 characters then use ReadLongLine which allows lines of any length Note that this may be much slower than FindLineStarting or FindLineContaining especially if the regular expression is very complicated Arguments RegExp Regular expression which matching lines must match with Return type string read from file or File EOF if end of file Example Loop reading lines from File object f whi
237. rguments Return type Page object Example To get the master page of template t var m t GetMaster Page D 58 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER GetPage index integer Description Get a page from a template Arguments The index of the page that you want to get Note that indices start at 0 Return type Page object Example To get the first page of template t var p t GetPage 0 GetVariableDescription name string Description Get the description for a variable Arguments Variable name you want to get description for Return type Variable description string or null if variable does not exist Example To get description for variable FRED in template var description template GetVariableDescription FRED Page D 59 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 GetVariableValue name string Description Get the value for a variable Arguments Variable name you want to get value for Return type Variable value string or null if variable does not exist Example To get value for variable FRED in template var value template GetVariableValue FRED Html filename string Description Save a template as HTML Arguments Filename you want to save Return type no return value Example To save template data as file data test template html data Html data test template html Page D 60 User manual Ve
238. riables The autotable object in the summary template can then pick up these reporter variables files and use them to create the table rows One row will be created for each file that is read 6 8 1 Selecting variables files for the table To create the autotable you need to select where REPORTER will read the reporter variables files from This is done in the Attributes section Attributes Name table Directory w data DEMO CONFERENCE PEDESTRIAN_HEAD NCAP_RUNS_2 Choose In this example REPORTER will look for any reporter variables files recursively from the directory data DEMO CONFERENCE PEDESTRIAN HEAD NCAP RUNS_2 Alternatively you can select a file which will contain a list of directories for REPORTER to look for any reporter variables files Note that for the file case REPORTER does not look recursively from that directory it looks in that directory only 6 8 2 Setting the header and generated row heights To set the height of the header row and any rows which are generated by REPORTER use the Header height and Generated data height options in the Geometry section Geometry 4 al 8 0 Wile 23 0 x2 200 0 Y2 1279 0 Header height 10 0 Generated data height 8 0 6 8 3 Adding columns to the table SI IRI To add a column to the table use the Add button in the Column properties section Page 6 24 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Column propertie
239. rocess to create the models it is created automatically If not you can create it manually or as part of your own process for building the models Further details are given in section B 8 4 The names of the models are important as they tell the template the location zone of the impactor If you have used the pedestrian markup script in PRIMER they will be named correctly Page B 28 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Please select the Ist file generated by PRIMER s model build for the LOWER Legform Impacts After pressing OK a file selector is mapped for you to select the LST file If you do not want to process the lower leg impacts or you don t have an LST file press cancel in the file selector In order to correctly extract the results needed for the protocol the template needs model information such as Node IDs and the unit system etc This needs to be supplied to the template from comments written in the LST file and the template will help you to create this information Further information on the format of the data can be found in section B 8 4 The template will scan the LST file to see if it contains the required information If it does you will be asked if you want to use it In order to extract the required data the template requires information such as Node IDs Beam IDs the model unit system etc Your list file already contains the necessary information Do you want to use this data I
240. rsion 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Pdf filename string Description Save a template as Adobe Acrobat PDF Arguments Filename you want to save Return type no return value Example To save template data as file data test template pdf data Pdf data test template pdf Ppt filename string Description Save a template as PowerPoint Arguments Filename you want to save Return type no return value Example To save template data as file data test template pptx data Ppt data test template pptx Page D 61 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Print printer string Description Print template on a printer Arguments Printer you want to print to Return type no return value Example To print template data on printer myprinter data Print myprinter Save Description Save a template Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example To save template data data Save Page D 62 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER SaveAs filename string Description Save a template with a new name Arguments Filename you want to save Return type no return value Example To save template data as file data test template opt data SaveAs data test template opt Update Description Update redraw a template Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example
241. s REPORTER Add Remove Hl Move up Move down Column header properties Name Font Width fsa 4 Reset Column generated data properties Text zj Font Hyperlink Conditions Choose Library Add Remove Arguments Edit This will create a new column with the default name Column 1 This is what will be shown as the column header You can change the name in the Name textbox and change the font used with the Font button Column properties Column 1 Add Remove Move up iik Move down Column header properties Name Column 1 Font width 59 4 Reset Column generated data properties Text Font Hyperlink Conditions Choose Library Add Remove Edit Arguments Once the column has been created you can decide how the data should be generated Continuing the example above the first column is the zone so we change the column name to ZONE The individual analyses that were post processed by REPORTER saved the zone for the analysis in the variable ZONE so for the generated data we want to input the text ZONE which means the value of variable ZONE REPORTER will first look for any variables in the reporter variables file If it finds the variable then the value will be used If REPORTER cannot find a variable in the reporter variables file it
242. s are used to read the data from the file To extract the xy data pairs from the file we use a regular expression This is perhaps the most complicated part of the program We want to be able to read x and y values that can be separated by a comma one or more spaces or both If we break the expression O 9eE s s O 9eE into it s constituent parts we get 0 9eE The groups characters that we allow to match and have special meanings so they have to be escaped with a character So this means we are allowing any of the characters 0123456789eE to match The specifies a single character so we use to mean one or more Finally using captures the expression so we can extract the value that matched So this will match values such as 10 1 2345 1 0e 05 23 4 s s The s matches a single space A means that it will try to match 0 or more spaces as many as are present The matches a comma and the means match either 0 or 1 of them So this expression means Match 0 or more spaces followed by 0 or 1 commas followed by 0 or more spaces More details on regular expressions can be found in the Conditional formatting chapter as these can use regular expressions Once we have extracted the data values with the regular expression we can easily calculate the average and make a new variable using the techniques in the first 3 examples The source code for this example is a
243. s the Capture button PRIMER will then automatically record a macro containing all of the commands that you do When you have finished do File and gt Reporter to return to REPORTER REPORTER will then prompt you to replace any filenames in the macro with variables You can choose which variables you would like to replace Alternatively you can replace any variables yourself manualls later on see below The Edit Primer object information window will then be updated as shown below Page 6 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ii Edit Primer object information o koes 6 Attributes Name primeri Type Bitmap Me Cropping Bitmap file DEFAULT_DIR primeri png Choose Macro file 25 lines Edit JavaScript Edit Geometry Bottom left X 23 0 A Bottom left Y 70 0 Width 104 0 Height 85 0 Update capture Cancel REPORTER will automatically give a name for the bitmap file but you can change it to whatever you want If required you can edit the macro by using the Edit button next to the Macro file textbox which in the above image shows that it contains 25 lines This is useful to replace any filenames with variables if required right click with the mouse or press Ctrl I in the macro to insert variables The macro will be saved in the REPORTER template As well as using a macro a JavaScript can also be specified to run in PRIMER The Edit button next to the JavaS
244. s to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files The variable names must start with a The model keyword files must be in the form ZONE_ROW_COLUMN key If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e ZONE should be c e ROW is the grid point row e COLUMN is the grid point column e g CHILD_HEAD_NODE_ID 100000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model C_1_1 c_1_1 key C Model C_1_ I c_1_ 1 key For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are CHILD_HEAD_NODE_ID ID for child head acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e ADULT_LST_FILE C adult Ist e CHILD_LST_FILE C child Ist e etc The arguments can be Page B 41 REPORTER Us
245. s true if the expression does not match at this point in the regexp For example const s char matches const except when it is followed by char Page 10 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 11 Scripting REPORTER has a JavaScript interpreter embedded in it to enable you to perform complex operations through scripts There are currently 3 ways to run a script in REPORTER e Running a library script installed in the library scripts directory e Inserting a script object onto a page This does not create any direct output itself but can create output which other objects in the template use e Running a script from the command line with the script option While most people associate JavaScript with web pages and html it is a full featured programming language Additionally JavaScript is not Java JavaScript is completely unrelated to Java Hopefully enough people are familiar enough with JavaScript through the internet to be able to use it in REPORTER JavaScript has all of the functionality you would expect from a programming language such as e variables strings numbers booleans objects arrays functions control flow statements such as if while do for switch etc objects arrays regular expressions maths functions sin cos log sqrt etc Additionally REPORTER extends JavaScript by defining several new object classes specifically for REPORTER A detailed reference on these classes is given the
246. scripts Returning variables from programs Accessing existing variables in REPORTER Example program Extracting the smallest timesteps Text output F Unicode support F 1 Output formats that support unicode Installation organisation Version 12 0 Installation structure Page ii 8 6 o0 00 00 mo on PROS S OLS eR le DOW U O a gt gt gt ive SOsAAAANN SID eR RR ROO OND NBR e N Pe ee Ma E 1 j j UO M User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Preamble Introduction REPORTER is a tool to automate the post processing of LS DYNA models It allows you to create a standard template for a report With command files and scripts it links with D3PLOT PRIMER and T HIS and other programs to create the necessary images and graphs when you come to generate an actual report from this template It can also be run in batch mode so that when a model has finished being analyzed a report can be automatically generated according to a pre built template D3PLOT Programs Command Files Running Program s Scripts Running T HIS Running D3PLOT u Visual Basic PDF Output Otsu Page 0 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Development Status This manual documents the sixth release of REPORTER 12 0 with Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment 12 0 The code is still being developed Systems supported REPORTER is available for Win32 and Linux 32 and 64 bit
247. slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be Name Description CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD _FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file EuroNCAP Side Pole 2014 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for a side pole impact based on the 2014 EuroNCAP protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER _HEAD_NODE 100000 e CHEST_UPPER_RIB_SPRING 200000 For entity IDs the value can either
248. static Description Check if a file exists Arguments Filename you want to check for existance Return type true false Example To see if the file data test file key exists if File Exists data test file key do something Page D 21 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 FindFiles directory string pattern string recursive boolean static Description Find any files in a directory and subdirectories if required matching a pattern Arguments Directory to look for files in Pattern to use to find matching files If Reporter should look for files recursively or not Return type array filenames Example To find all of the files matching the pattern key recursively from directory data test var filelist File FindFiles data test key true Page D 22 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER FindLineContaining contain1 string contain2 optional string contain3 optional string containn optional string Description Reads a line from a file which contains contain opened for reading by a File object To enable this function to be as fast as possible a maximum line length of 256 characters is used If you expect a file to have lines longer than 256 characters then use ReadLongLine which allows lines of any length If one argument is used then the line must contain that string If more than one argument is used then lines which contain a
249. string item that you want to print Return type No return value Example To print string Hello world to the log file LogPrint Hello world Any number of arguments can be given They will be concatenated e g LogPrint The value of iis i elephants Page D 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER LogWarning arg1 Any valid javascript type Any valid javascript type static Description Print a warning to log file Anything that you print will be output to the log file window in red text Note that a carriage return will automatically be added Arguments Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to print ER Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to print Return type No return value Example To give warning Warning something has gone wrong to the log file LogWarning Warning something has gone wrong Any number of arguments can be given They will be concatenated e g LogWarning The value of iis i elephants Output string Any valid javascript type static Description Output a string from a script Note that a carriage return is not automatically added Arguments Any valid javascript type The string item that you want to print Return type No return value Example To output string Hello world with a carriage return Output Hello world n Page D 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 Oct
250. t Characters and Abbreviations in regular expressions example if you wished to match a literal caret at the beginning of a string you would write This matches the ASCII line feed character LF 0x0A Unix newline This matches the ASCII carriage return character CR 0x0D This matches the ASCII horizontal tab character HT 0x09 This matches the ASCII vertical tab character VT OxOB xhhhh This matches the Unicode character corresponding to the hexadecimal number hhhh between 0x0000 and OxFFFF 0000 i e zero 000 matches the ASCII Latin 1 character corresponding to the octal number 000 between 0 and 0377 dot This matches any character including newline c c a f n r t v This matches a whitespace This matches a digit This matches a non whitespace This matches a non digit This matches a word character This matches a non word character Sets of Characters d s S w W Square brackets are used to match any character in the set of characters contained within the square brackets All the character set abbreviations described above can be used within square brackets Apart from the character set abbreviations and the following two exceptions no characters have special meanings in square brackets Page 10 4 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER The caret negates the character set if it occurs as the first character i e immediately after the opening square brac
251. t ABODE AKE ptt Data From Analyse Medal TITLE Eraras text Arenson ier NUMEA sore Sadied aa kaik zrOaras Text AFNESENIEN NURER LIDEE CPU Ime zroaran TORL AFNESDENIEM NURER LIDEE final added mar Eara text APRESEN eR MMS iors Terreination sistas Frogras text APMESENIEN HURES 1IDFE _ Des teats a Progres Date of executor Eria ext Arnesenien AHUREA IOFS ee Fi lenene yubeooe Jab Enia Eiraan p Mode Directory XMIDEL_OIR Keyword the SMODEL_NAMES bey Engines ENOINEERY Repot ganm ated KOATES AOURRENT_PADE Yt ol TOTAL PAGES 4 Presentation view after generating report Initial Conditions car usat m Reporter Demonstration Using Crush Tube Model Deta From Anal ns Model TITLE Crush Tube Executed om hast atghp011 CPU time 2 bours 48 minutes 24 seconde Final added mane 0 3 Termination distor Normal Date ot execution 1172972002 Model Directory DApresernter_deme Keyword the bude ker Engmeer A N Other Report penetated Man f4 Now 17 1327 2005 Page 7 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 7 2 1 Using the cursor in presentation mode When you first go into presentation mode after generating a template the cursor mode changes to the hand cursor In this mode you cannot select or edit any objects The cursor is used for following hyperlinks This is likely to be extended to other functions in future releases of REPO
252. t is used otherwise the second is tested etc If none of the conditions pass the default font properties for the object are chosen As the order that they are evaluated is important you can use the Move up and Move down buttons to change the order Once a condition has been added it is given a default name and the condition type is initially set to is equal to Choose the condition type that you want see the next section for details and give the necessary values For example in the image below the condition will be true if the value is a number between 10 0 and 100 0 Page 10 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 uf Enter condition information Conditions Conditions will be tested in the order shown until one matches Condition 1 Add Condition properties Name Condition 1 Remove Value is between frog and 100 0 Move up Preview of format when AaBb YvZv 123 890 Fanaa Move down condition matches Red ae dh Once you have the correct condition type the Format button can be used to select the font properties that you want to assign for this condition In the window shown below you can set the font the style justification font size and colour properties ur Modify font properties Font attributes Style e ea u Justify Font Courier x Size 12 Colcu D Choose When you
253. ta test file txt var f new File data test file txt File READ Details of functions Close Description Close a file opened by a File object Arguments No arguments Return type No return value Example To close File object f Close Page D 19 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 ConvertSeparators filename string static Description Convert directory separators to the correct type for this operating system Arguments filename string Filename you want to convert separators on Return type string filename Example e g on windows the filename c test file key would be converted to c test file key by var converted File ConvertSeparators c test file key Delete filename string static Description Delete a file Arguments Filename you want to delete Return type true if successful false if not Example To delete the file data test file txt var deleted File Delete data test file txt Page D 20 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Directory filename string static Description Extract directory name from an absolute filename Arguments Absolute filename you want to extract directory from Return type string directory Example To extract the directory data test from file data test file key var directory File Directory data test file key Exists filename string
254. tc e g XSECTION_TIBIA_UPPER_ID 100000 XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_UPPER_ID 200000 XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_LOWER_ID 300000 SPRING_PCL_ID 300000 SPRING_ACL_ID 300000 SPRING_MCL_ID 300000 UNIT_LENGTH mm UNIT_MASS tonne UNIT_TIME s C Model L_O I_0 key L_0 C Model L_1I I_1 key L_1 For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are SPRING_ACL_ID ID for ACL displacement SPRING_MCL_ID ID for MCL displacement SPRING_PCL_ID ID for PCL displacement Page B 47 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us XSECTION_TIBIA_LOWER_ID Database ID for lower tibia moment CrossSection XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_ LOWER _ID Database ID for mid lower tibia moment CrossSection XSECTION_TIBIA_MID_UPPER_ID Database ID for mid upper tibia moment CrossSection XSECTION_TIBIA_UPPER_ID Database ID for upper tibia moment CrossSection LST File Details The Upper Legform LST file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and impact zones e g The varia
255. tch exactly one occurrence 1 1 can be replaced with the expression itself This means that x 1 1 is exactly the same as x alone So our 0 to 99 matcher could be written d 1 2 Another way of writing it would be d d 0 1 i e from the start of the string match a digit followed by zero or one digits In practice most people would write it d d The is a shorthand for the quantifier 0 1 i e a minimum of no occurrences a maximum of one occurrence This is used to make an expression optional The regexp d d means from the beginning of the string match one digit followed by zero or one digits and then the end of the string Our second example is matching the words mail letter or correspondence but without matching email mailman mailer letterbox etc We ll start by just matching mail In full the regexp is m 1 1 a 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 but since each expression itself is automatically quantified by 1 1 we can simply write this as mail an m followed by an a Page 10 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 followed by an i followed by an l The symbol l bar is used for alternation so our regexp now becomes maillletterlcorrespondence which means match mail or letter or correspondence Whilst this regexp will find the words we want it will also find words we don t want such as email We will start by putting our re
256. ter TEXT_UNDERLINE Valid for item types Item TEXT Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM and Item TEXT FILE justify constant Text justification for the item Can be Reporter JUSTIFY_CENTRE Reporter JUSTIFY_LEFT or Reporter JUSTIFY_RIGHT combined with Reporter JUSTIFY_TOP Reporter JUSTIFY MIDDLE or Reporter JUSTIFY_BOTTOM Valid for item types Item TEXT Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM and Item TEXT_FILE lineColour Colour Colour of outline for the item object Valid for item types Item LINE Item ARROW Item RECTANGLE Item ELLIPSE Item TEXTBOX Item D3PLOT Item PRIMER Item THIS Item PROGRAM Item TEXT_FILE and Item IMAGE FILE Reporter LINE _DASH DOT DOT Valid for item types Item LINE Item ARROW Item RECTANGLE Item ELLIPSE Item TEXTBOX Item D3PLOT Item PRIMER Item THIS Item PROGRAM Item TEXT _FILE and Item IMAGE FILE line Width Width of outline for the item in mm Valid for item types Item LINE Item ARROW Item RECTANGLE Item ELLIPSE Item TEXTBOX Item D3PLOT Item PRIMER Item THIS Item PROGRAM Item TEXT FILE Item IMAGE _ FILE Item TABLE and Item AUTO_TABLE text string The text for the item Valid for item types Item TEXT Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM Item TEXT_FILE and Item SCRIPT textColour Colour Colour of text for the item object Valid for item types Item TEXT Item TEXTBOX Item PROGRAM and Item TEXT_FILE type read type of the Item Can be Item LINE Item TEXT etc only Second X coor
257. the Y direction Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm Batch Arguments The template can be run in batch with the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e KEYWORD_FILE C my_model key e CSV_FILE C data csv e etc The arguments can be CSV_FILE optional Filename of the CSV file containing the extra data entity IDs etc If this is not specified the data needs to be specified in the keyword file as post END data IMAGES_DIR Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the optional same directory as the keyword file KEYWORD _ FILE Model keyword filename RESULTS_DIR Directory to look for results If this is not specified the template will look for results in the optional same directory as the keyword file IIHS SOB II Template Page B 56 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Template Description This template will generate a report for a front SOB impact based on the IHS version II protocol CSV File Details The CSV file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs e g e DRIVER HEAD NODE 100000 e DRIVER_CHEST_N
258. the following command e reporter exe batch file template_name varTEMPLATE_ARGS args_filename Where args_filename is a file containing arguments to pass to the template in comma separated arg_name arg_value pairs e g e LOWER_LEG_LST_FILE C lower_leg st e UPPER_LEG_LST_FILE C upper_leg Ist e etc The arguments can be IMAGES_DIR optional Directory to write images to If this is not specified the template will write images in the same directory as the keyword file LOWER_LEG_LST_FILE Lower leg Ist filename UPPER_LEG_LST_FILE Upper leg Ist filename EuroNCAP Pedestrian Legform 2015 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for pedestrian leg impacts based on the 2015 EuroNCAP protocol LST File Details The Lower Legform LST file gives the template the extra data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files and impact zones e g The variable names must start with a The lines with the model keyword files need to have three columns of data separated by commas FILENAME BLANK ZONE If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e FILENAME is the keyword filename e BLANK is a blank column e ZONE is the impact zone e g L_O L_1 L_ 1 e
259. the variable without bringing up any conformation box Page 8 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 8 9 Inserting a variable Certain inputs for such things as filenames text and program script arguments can use variables rather ax Attributes than a straight text string You can Name ets insert a variable at the current cursor position by right clicking on the text box m Text properties Style B E U Justify Font Courier Size 112 ol lll Hyperlink Conditions x1 57 0 2 1 1196 0 4 Geometry 4 out Enter text 2 xj From the popup menu select Insert variable Attributes Name texts m Text properties Style e E u Justify Font Courier x Size 112 4 Text Page Insert variable Ctri 1 T Ctrl z Conditions Redo Ctrl Geometry 5 Gut Ctrl Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctrl lea Cancel Select All Ctri h An Insert variable window from which you can select the variable will then be brought up Page 8 7 REPORTER Select variable to insert Variables for template2 ort User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Name ACCELERATION CURRENT_PAGE DATE DEFAULT_DIR DEFAULT_JOB REPORTER_HOME REPORTER_TEMP TIME TOTAL_PAGES USER_HOME Number Number String Directory File basename Directory Directory String Number Directory Descrip
260. tion Current page nu Current date Reporter default Reporter default Reporter home di Reporter temp di Current time Total number of p User home direct 47 789768 C Documents an P joasys 10 C DOCUME 11G C Documents an Readonly Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes z Format Type Floating point number w Precision 2 l S Preview 1234 57 From this window you select the variable you want from the list and click on the OK button to insert the variable and exit this window The Cancel button will exit this window with out inserting a variable Note in this panel you can set a local format setting for the variable This is a format that is applied to this instance of variable when viewed in presentation model The available options are e Floating point number displays a number variable as a floating point number The number of decimal places can be specified using the precision setting e Scientific number displays a number variable as a scientific number The number of decimal places can be specified using the precision setting General number this uses the shorter of the floating point or scientific methods above Integer displays a number variable as an integer Uppercase displays a string type variable in uppercase Lowercase displays a string type variable in lowercase This local format setting overrides any global format setting for this variable sp
261. tion 0 Enable Live Preview show Developer tab in the Fabian Cu cence Color scheme Be z Advanted add in Scpeentip style Show fedte deseripborn in Sireen Tips Trust Canter Personalite your copy of Microsoft Office Resources User nimi Miles Thomton Initi ls KAT Ce gps you wart oth Aco fi 7 Start the visual basic editor by selecting Visual Basic from the Developer ribbon 8 Import the visual basic file into the editor by doing Mi ft Yisual Basic P tationi File gt Import file and selecting the file Me I File Edit View Insert Format Debug Run Tools Ad w Save Presentation1 Import File Ctrl M Gtr E Export File Remove amp Print Ctrl P Alt Q Close and Return to Microsoft PowerPoint 9 Return back to powerpoint by doing File gt Close 3 Microsoft Yisual Basic Presentation1 and return to Microsoft Powerpoint I File Edit View Insert Format Debug Run Tools Ad Ww Save Presentation1 Ctri 5 P Import File Ctrl M L Export File GHI E Remove amp Print Ctrl P Close and Return to Microsoft PowerPoint Alt Q 10 In PowerPoint select Macros from the Developer Ribbon Page 7 9 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 There should be a macro X and press Run Macro name reporter_pagei reporter_page2 reporter_page3 Macro in Presentationi Description Macr
262. tion can be stored either as post END data in the master keyword file or in a csv file Your keyword file does not appear to have it stored as post END data Do you have a csv file with this information If you have a CSV file press Yes and select it in the file selector If you press No REPORTER will inform you that it will start PRIMER so you can select the required information interactively After pressing OK PRIMER will start the model will be read in and a window will be open for you to interactively select the required information Page B 13 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 era ay es rem ans Gem vas mung SRS GU You can select the information either by picking the entities in the graphics window typing it in to the textbox or selecting it from a list of DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX entities in the popup menu If they are defined with the _ID option then the names will be used instead of the numbers e g m EuroNCAP ODB Template Selection Driver Dummy Y _HUMANETICS_HII_SOTH_MALE ad Passenger Dummy Steering Wheel Airbag Driver Head Node Driver Neck Loadcell Beam Driver Chest Transducer Spring 100001 Driver Right Knee Transducer Spring Den H meme Driver Left Knee Transducer Spring oh Se Driver Left Femur Loadcell Beam After you have selected the information you can need to save it either as a CSV file or post END dat
263. to running a script from the command line or inserting a script object onto a page For more details on scripting see the scripting chapter 2 Preferences 2 7 1 Preferences Grid DL Preferences Grid Templates Library LS Dyna VBA Editing Grid Attributes Point style Size 5 0 Dot Line The colour style and size of the grid drawn on the page can be altered with these preferences A grid can help you Page 2 10 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER layout objects on the page Note that the grid size does not have to be the same as the snap size 2 7 2 Preferences Templates Git Preferences Templates Library LS Dyna VBA Editing Generation Overwrite existing image files in D3PLOT and T HIS When generating image files for D3PLOT and T HIS this preference controls what do do if an image with the same name exists By default selected REPORTER will overwrite the image However you many want to run the same template multiple times for different models in the same directory With this unselected a new image will be created for each model This preference is not a programme wide preference It is actually stored with the template and read written as a property so this must be set for each active template 2 7 3 Preferences Library Wit Preferences Grid Templates Library
264. tran Perl C program script include lt stdio h gt include lt stdlib h gt include lt string h gt define MAX LEN 257 int main int argc char argv char line MAX LEN ptr int i l n 5 float t tmin FILE fp if argc lt 2 printf No otf filename n exit 0 if fp fopen argv 1 r NULL printf Cannot open otf file s n argv 1 exit 0 while fgets line MAX LEN fp if strstr line smallest timesteps sscanf line d amp n if n gt 5 n 5 tmin 1 0e 20 Page E 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 fgets line MAX LEN fgets line MAX LEN for i 0 i lt n i fp fp fgets line MAX LEN printf s line Remove any trailing characters l strlen line 1 while c line l lss 0 line l 1 number 1 strlen line 1 while c line l 1 s ptr amp line 1 sscanf ptr Se if t lt tmin tmin t fp Find start of amp t printf exit 0 fclose fp C Shell program script bin csh f Script to extract the 5 smallest timesteps Arguments 1 otf filename Test to see if there is an argument if argv lt 1 then echo No otf filename exit endif test to see if the otf file exists if e argv 1 then echo otf file Sargv 1 does not exist exit endif Use awk to ext
265. turn type String string with variables expanded If a variable in a string does not exist it is replaced by a blank Example If the variable FRED in template contains the value test then the following var value template ExpandVariablesInString This is a FRED will return This is a test in variable value Generate Description Generate a template Arguments No arguments Return type no return value Example To generate template data data Generate Page D 56 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER GetAll static Description Get all of the open templates Arguments No arguments Return type array of Template objects or null if no open templates Example To get all of the templates open in REPORTER var templates Template GetAll j GetAllPages Description Gets all of the pages from a template Arguments No arguments Return type Array of Page objects Example To get all of the pages from template t var pages t GetAllPages Page D 57 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 GetCurrent static Description Get the currently active template Arguments No arguments Return type Template object or null if no active template Example To get the current template open in REPORTER var current template Template GetCurrent GetMaster Description Get the master page from a template Arguments No a
266. u can do this by 1 Make a new variable STRESS 2 Set the type to Expression 3 Give the value FORCE AREA see secion 8 3 for more details by either typing directly or using the right mouse button and Inserting variables with the menu Then if you have some text in the report such as The stress is STRESS REPORTER will evaluate the stress as required The expression can contain and to do addition subtraction division and multiplication respectively and can use brackets to enforce which order the expression is evaluated in The expression is actually evaluated as a JavaScript program so more complex expressions can be formed by using the standard JavaScipt functions e g the Math class e g the following are all valid expressions e FORCE AREA e Math sqrt X e Math min X SYS SYS Y Math sin Math PI X Y o o Page 8 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 8 12 1 Rounding values in variable expressions As the expression is evaluated as a JavaScript program see the previous section we can use some of the core functions in JavaScript to alter the variable value For example in our example of calculating a variable STRESS from an expression YFORCE AREA this could have a large number of significant figures in the result E g if FORCE 10 and AREA 3 then stress is 3 33333333333333 which is far more significant figures than we require We can use the core JavaScript fu
267. u can input and use European accented Japanese Korean and Chinese characters On Windows you can input unicode characters using the normal IME global Input Method Editor The XML format that REPORTER uses to save files supports unicode As Japanese Korean and Chinese have many common ideographs but these may have different appearances depending on the font there is a preference in REPORTER which allows you to set the default language you want to use reporter cjk_ default which can be either Chinese Japanese or Korean Note that although REPORTER has unicode support currently D3PLOT T HIS and LS DYNA do not so you should not use unicode characters in filenames F 1 Output formats that support unicode Currently only text objects and table headers can be output with unicode characters HTML Unicode is fully supported in the HTML written by REPORTER To view the HTML a user needs the appropriate fonts installed PowerPoint and vba Unicode is fully supported in the powerPoint and visual basic files written by REPORTER as long as the appropriate language pack s are installed PDF The PDF files created by REPORTER do not embed the fonts used in the document However newer versions of the acrobat reader will automatically detect that the document uses a Chinese Japanese or Korean font and prompt the user to download the necessary fonts There are two preferences which affect what fonts are used in pdf files Firstly for Jap
268. uld produce errors when generating or change the order of the captured images This has been fixed Fixes bug 22227 If a D3PLOT object was made that had more than 20 captures and the template saved to file REPORTER would not be able to read the file again This has been fixed Fixes bug 22226 D3Plot objects using a command file instead of capturing did not work in version 11 This has been fixed Fixes bug 22147 When saving old style T HIS objects i e using a command file instead of a FAST TCF script the command file was not saved This has been fixed Fixes bug 22117 Opening the HTML manual did not work on Linux This has been fixed Fixes bug 21989 Version 11 0 When writing PowerPoint files REPORTER now correctly writes animated gifs Fixes enhancement 17601 REPORTER could crash if you created a table that used a library program for a cell and you saved the output of the program to a variable This has been fixed Fixes bug 21346 The library program which reported the LS DYNA version and revision from the otf file did not work correctly for new R7 LS DYNA output because there is now a new SVN Version line in the otf file Additionally the version and revision were expected to be to be a single word This has been fixed Fixes bug 21243 Outlines were not written for Oasys Ltd or File Image type objects to PowerPoints Now added Fixes bug 21242 REPORTER would hang when reading a template file if one o
269. used in this manual Typefaces Four different typfaces are used in this manual Manual Text This typeface is used for text in this manual Computer type This one is used to show what the computer types Operator type This is used to show what you must type Button text This is used for screen menu buttons and headings Page 0 11 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page 0 12 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER 1 Setting up and running REPORTER 1 1 Setting up REPORTER 1 1 1 Prerequisites Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment software You should already have the standard Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment software T HIS including FAST TCF and D3PLOT installed and have flexlm licenses for the software The folders that the Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment software is installed in must not have any special characters in folder names e g amp Just use letters numbers spaces and underscores for folder names e g the following example is invalid C Program Files Ove Arup amp Partners Oasys1 1 this is valid C Program Files Ove Arup Oasys1 1 1 1 2 REPORTER installation Win32 How to install REPORTER on windows Installing files Double click on the Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment setup file exe file to run it REPORTER should then install and be ready to run The installation process should automatically associate ort and orr files with REPORTER so you can double click on them to read
270. v comma separated value file See section 6 1 Create a D3Plot data file Create a data file which is suitable for use by D3PLOT The data will be extracted from generated data files from reporter variables files See section 6 1 Error programs Read PRIMER error file Read an error file produced by doing a model check in PRIMER and extract the errors Keyword file programs The following programs retrieve information from a keyword file Analysis title Prints the title of the analysis from the TITLE card Comments between KEYWORD and TITLE Prints any comment lines in the keyword file between the KEYWORD and TITLE keywords The will be removed from each line An optional second argument can be used to impose a maximum limit on the number of lines printed Extract title and LCSS curve from MAT PIECEWISE_LINEAR PLASTICITY_TITLE cards Include files used in analysis Prints a list of all the include files used in the analysis By default the full pathname of include files is written An optional second argument can be used to give the names relative to the master file Initial velocity card used in analysis Prints the first line of any INITIAL VELOCITY cards in the keyword file The script will also recursively look in include files for INITIAL VELOCITY cards Timestep from CONTROL TIMESTEP card Reads the DT2MS value from the CONTROL TIMESTEP card Page B 1 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 NC
271. vailable here Page 11 5 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Page 11 6 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER A Command line arguments and oa_pref options A 1 Command line arguments The following command line arguments are available in REPORTER Unless stated otherwise all command line options are evaluated in the order that they are given file orr or Opens REPORTER file file orr file file orr pdf file pdf Creates a pdf file file pdf html file html Creates a HTML file file html print printer Prints report to printer varNAME type value description Creates a variable NAME in REPORTER with value value and description description description and type can be omitted If the type is omitted it defaults to General Create a powerpoint macro visual basic file file bas ppt file ppt Create PowerPoint file file ppt Note Not available on unix Only available on Windows if Powerpoint is installed log logfile Save the logfile REPORTER produces in the file logfile as plain text after processing all the command line options loghtml logfile Save the logfile REPORTER produces in the file logfile as HTML after processing all the command line options generate Generate a report previously read with file argument Note this is not required if you use any of the ps pdf html vba or ppt options they do this automatically report file orr Sav
272. value Example To draw a rectangle with no fill and solid red border line width 2 pixels on image idata starting at point 30 20 and finishing at point 100 50 idata lineColour red idata fillColour none idata lineWidth 2 idata lineStyle Reporter LINE SOLID idata Rectangle 30 20 100 50 Save filename string filetype constant Description Save an image to file gif png bmp or jpeg Arguments Imagename you want to save filetype Type you want to save as Can be Image BMP Image JPG or Image PNG Return type no return value Example To save the image object idata to file data test image jpg as a jpeg idata Save data test image jpg Image JPG Page D 39 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 Star x integer y integer r integer Description Draw a star on an image Arguments X coordinate of centre of star Y coordinate of centre of star Return type no return value Example To draw a blue star with yellow fill on image idata centred at point 30 20 with radius 10 idata lineColour blue idata fillColour yellow idata Star 30 20 10 Text x integer y integer text string Description Draw text on an image Arguments Y position for text Text to write on image Return type no return value Example To write the text Test in Helvetica 12pt bold underlined coloured red on image idata
273. was installed in e On Windows this is no longer required as the software can work out its own installation directory As this environment variable is no longer required it is recommended that it is removed from machines it is currently set on as in some cases where more than one version has been installed in different directories it can cause problems e On LINUX systems the oasys_12 script that starts the SHELL automatically sets this Environment Variable and passes it to any application started from the SHELL If you run applications directly from the command line and bypass the SHELL then you should set OA INSTALL XX so that the software can locate manuals and other required files OA ADMIN XX Users wishing to separate configuration and installation directories will be able to do so by making use of the new top levelOA_ADMIN xx directory Page G 2 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER Installation Examples The following diagrams illustrate how the installation might be organised in various different scenarios a Single user installation on one machine There is no need to worry about separating administration and installation directories and the default installation of all files in and below the single installation directory will suffice OA_INSTALL_xx It is suggested that the xx version suffix of OA INSTALL xx is used in order to keer all files parallel installations of different releases of the Oassys Ltd so
274. word file EuroNCAP Pedestrian Head 2014 Template Template Description This template will generate a report for pedestrian head impacts based on the 2014 EuroNCAP protocol LST File Details The Adult LST file gives the template the data it needs to generate the report model keyword file locations entity IDs etc The format is a list of comma separated var_name var_value pairs and then a list of the keyword files The variable names must start with a The model keyword files must be in the form ZONE_ROW_COLUMN key If you have used the pedestrian markup tool in PRIMER to create the models they will automatically be labelled correctly Where e ZONE should be a e ROW is the grid point row e COLUMN is the grid point column e g e ADULT_HEAD_NODE_ID 100000 e UNIT_LENGTH mm Page B 40 User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 REPORTER e UNIT_MASS tonne e UNIT_TIME s e C Model A_2_1 a_2_1 key e C Model A_2_ 1 a_2_ 1 key For entity IDs the value can either be the label a number or the name if it is defined on the DATABASE_HISTORY_XXXX_ID card Required variables are ADULT_HEAD_NODE_ID ID for adult head acceleration UNIT_LENGTH Model s length unit Can be m cm mm inch or ft UNIT_MASS Model s mass unit Can be tonne kg Ib slug or gm UNIT_TIME Model s time unit Can be s ms or us LST File Details The Child LST file gives the template the data it need
275. ximise window when REPORTER RUE FALSE FALSE Started The following options control how objects are edited Preference __ Type Description Validarzumnis Default object coordinates neg ght hen editing objects ieee sei string gt Location for initial LEFT RIGHT BOTTOM TOP none gt indow on multi screen LEFT_BOTTOM LEFT_TOP displa RIGHT_BOTTOM RIGHT_TOP The following options control pdf output arguments pdf_image_downsample Pose ownsample images in pdf files ee ALSE FALSE Page A 3 REPORTER User manual Version 12 0 October 2014 pdf_image_downsample_resolutio Kinteger gt R esolution to downsample images to 10 3000 pdf_image_downsample_threshold Kreal gt Factor above pdf_image_downsample_resolution 1 0 10 0 1 5 before downsampling is done The following options control which other Oasys Ltd LS DYNA Environment programmes are used by REPORTER Preference__ fype__Description Vaidargumnts Default d3plot ___ kstring gt D3PLOT executable to use pO Kmome gt d3plot_args string gt Extra command line arguments to pass to none gt D3PLOT primer kstring gt PRIMER executable to use po Knone gt primer_args string gt Extra command line arguments to pass to none gt PRIMER his _____kstring gt T HIS executable to use po Knone gt Extra command line arguments to pass to TAIS none Directory to start REPORTER in caa enone _ ime format Kstring gt ormat for printing default time variabl
276. y string This is because we have said find zero or more whitespace followed by the end of string so even strings that don t end in whitespace will match The regexp we want in this case is s to match strings that have at least one whitespace at the end Matches exactly n occurrences of the expression This is the same as repeating the expression n times For example x 5 is the same as xxxxx It is also the same as E n n e g x 5 5 E n Matches at least n occurrences of the expression This is the same as E n MAXINT E m Matches at most m occurrences of the expression This is the same as E 0 m MAXINT is implementation dependent but will not be smaller than 1024 If we wish to apply a quantifier to more than just the preceding character we can use parentheses to group characters together in an expression For example tag matches a t followed by an a followed by at least one g whereas tag matches at least one occurrence of tag Note that quantifiers are greedy They will match as much text as they can For example 0 will match as many zeros as it can from the first zero it finds e g 2 0005 Assertions Assertions make some statement about the text at the point where they occur in the regexp but they do not match any characters In the following list E stands for any expression The caret signifies the beginning of the string If you wish to match a literal you must escape it
277. y provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter TEXT_ITALIC instead deprecated Reporter TextNormal This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter TEXT NORMAL instead deprecated Reporter TextUnderline This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter TEXT_UNDERLINE instead deprecated Reporter ViewDesign This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter VIEW_DESIGN instead deprecated Reporter ViewPresentation This constant is deprecated in version 12 0 It is only provided to keep old scripts working We strongly advise against using it in new scripts Support may be removed in future versions Please use Reporter VIEW_PRESENTATION instead deprecated Constants for Text style Reporter TEXT_BOLD Text drawn in a bold font Reporter TEXT_ITALIC Text drawn in an italic font Reporter TEXT_NORMAL Text drawn in a normal font Reporter TEXT_UND

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