Exercise 7c: Creating and Parameterizing Report Templates

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1 Exercise 7c: Creating and Parameterizing Report Templates This exercise uses the result files abstat and glstat. Step 1: Load the file abstat into HyperGraph 2D and create airbag statistics plots. 1. Open HyperWorks Desktop and set the window to the HyperGraph 2D application. 2. Go to the Build Plots panel. 3. For the Data file, select the file abstat in the folder \Model-files\ch7\7c-report-template\airbag\run1\abstat 4. For Y Type select Airbag Statistics, for Y Request select Airbag 1, and for Y Component select Volume, Pressure, Internal Energy, and dm/dt in. 5. Set the Layout to One plot per Component and select a 4 window layout,. 6. Click Apply to create the plots. Step 2: Load the file glstat into HyperGraph 2D and create energy plots. 7. You should still be in the Build Plots panel.

2 8. For the Data file, select the file glstat in the folder \Model-files\ch7\7c-report-template\airbag\run1\glstat 9. For Y Type select Energy, for Y Request select Kinetic Energy and Internal Energy, and for Y Component select Energy. 10. Set the Layout to One plot per Request and select a 2 window layout,. 11. Click Apply to create a second page of plots. Step 3: Create report template parameters for the line color, line style and curve name. 12. Open the Parameters Browser by selecting View > Browsers > HyperWorks > Parameters. 13. Expand the p1: Untitled (Airbag Statistics-1) and p2: Untitled (Energy-1) folders. Notice how each window is represented in the Parameters Browser. 14. Expand w1: XY Plot, w2: XY Plot, w3: XY Plot and w4: XY Plot folders and then expand the Curves folder within each of these folders. 15. Within the Curves folder each curve is listed. Using the Ctrl button, select c1:airbag1 for windows 1, 2, 3 and 4 as shown below:

3 16. Now the parameters for the report template for these curves can be selected. From the listing of the parameters, select LineColor, LineStyle, and Name: By using the Ctrl button and selecting the curves in the Parameters Browser, the 3 parameters selected above are all applicable to the 4 curves. 17. Next the same parameters are defined for the second page. Using the Parameters Browser, select c1: Energy for window 1 and window 2 on page 2. Then select the parameters LineColor, LineStyle and Name.

4 Notice how this adds another parameter name to the parameter list. In the next step, we will merge the similar parameters so there is only a single parameter for line style, line color, and curve name. 18. Under the Name listing, left click on Xycurve Linecolor and while holding the Ctrl button, left click on Xycurve Linecolor Right click and select Merge. This combines the two parameters into a single parameter.

5 20. Repeat substeps 7-8 for the LineStyle and Name parameters. There should now only be 3 parameters. Step 4: Set the parameter defaults and save the report template. 21. Within the parameters list, you can double click on the Xycurve Name1 of the parameter and rename the parameter. 22. Based on the names shown below, double click on each parameter and rename to the name shown below: 23. The Default color and line style can also be changed. Click on the color and select a different color from the color palette or select a new line style from the available listing. 24. Next {p2w1c1.y.hwcomponent}, click on to launch a new window to set the default for the curve name. 25. Leave the Value type set to value and change the Default value to Run 1.

6 26. Click OK. 27. Save the report template by selecting File > Save As > Report Template. 28. Enter Exercise_7c.tpl as the filename and Save the file to an appropriate location. Step 5: Clear the session and load the report template. 1. From the menu bar select File > New > Session and then select Yes to clear the session. 2. Open the Reports panel using the Reports toolbar. Select View > Toolbars > HyperWorks > Report to open the Reports toolbar. 3. Open the Reports panel by selecting Open Reports Panel,. 4. Click Delete to remove any templates that are in the panel. 5. Click Add and browse to the file Exercise_7c.tpl. 6. Click Open.

7 The Reports panel is populated with the parameters in the report template. 7. Change the Linecolor to 2 and the Linestyle to For Name, leave the default of Run Click Apply. 10. Returning to the Reports panel, update PLOT_FILE_1 to the abstat file in \Model-files\ch7\7c-report-template\airbag\run2\abstat 11. Right click on the file path next to PLOT_FILE_1 and select Autofill directory.

8 This automatically updates the directories for the other files to the directory selected for PLOT_FILE_1. Notice how PLOT_FILE_2 now points to the glstat file in the run2 directory. 12. Update the Linecolor to 3, Linestyle to 1, and Name to Run For Mode select Overlay. 14. Click Apply. 15. A new dialog box Select Starting Page is opened to define the starting page. Select Page1 and click OK.

9 Now every curve that is part of the same run is represented by the same color. Also, the curves are appropriately named so that you know whether they come from Run 1 or Run Move to Page 2 and notice how the curve are appropriately named and colored.

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