Introduction

The Document consists of individual document items. One document item can be a table, image, simple text, etc. In this chapter we focus on tables only. Document items are sorted in the document tree.

Each table contains certain data (e.g. information about nodes, 1D members, defined load cases, characteristics of cross-sections, calculated results etc). The layout of the table is called a template. One table can have (and usually really has) several templates defined. Thus, it is possible to choose between (i) brief or detailed table, (ii) horizontal or vertical table, etc.

The developer of SCIA Engineer has prepared a set of templates that should cover the common needs of majority of users. On the other hand, it is clear that special situations may require special treatment, it means a special layout of the tables in the document. It is also common that e.g. large companies want to have their documents standardised and therefore, they may require some modification of the default templates or even creation of tailor-made templates reflecting their particular needs or habits.

SCIA Engineer offers two tools that may provide for the above-mentioned tasks.

Table Manager

The Table Manager belongs to the extended family of SCIA Engineer database managers. It provides for maintenance of table templates.

Table Composer

The Table Composer is an editing tool that can be used to modify the layout of a particular table template.