Printing and exports

Engineering Report can be printed or exported to various external formats. Printing and exports can be started from the Back stage view.

On the Printing page it is possible to select the printer, pages which are to be printed, orientation of the paper and paper size. The right side of the page is dedicated to print preview.

The last combobox enables to select the quality of printed rendered pictures. It can increase the quality of printed picture. On the other hand it can significantly increase the time needed for printing.

Print preview

The preview shows how the report will look like when printed on the paper. In case there is selected different paper format than is used in the report the preview take it into account

Exports

There are available exports into following formats in the Engineering Report:

Export to PDF

Export to PDF enables direct export of the report to the PDF file.

There are available following options:

 

Note: export of 3D pictures is supported in the Engineering Report. It is just necessary to check the picture property Export to PDF as 3D.

 

In some versions of Adobe Acrobat it is necessary to switch ON double sided rendering:

Export to RTF

Since the release 2013.1 it is possible to export reports directly into RTF format. It enables to generate Word documents looking very similar to reports in Engineering Report. The similarity is much better than using the export to HTML format.

Watermarks are not exported to RTF files.

 

Export to HTML (also opened in Excel and Word)

Export to HTML enables to export report into HTML file which can be later opened in web browser or Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.

Direct opening of the HTML file after export can be controlled using the checkbox Open after export. The combo box Open in... enables to select tool which is used for opening of the HTML file. User can select between default internet browser, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.

User can select format of pictures which will be used for exporting. User can select from bmp, jpg, gif and png.

Antialisaing setting : this can generally increase the level of antialiasing defined for pictures

User can defined general ratio of picture size for export into html using Scale for pictures.

User can decide whether pictures will be included or not in exported file.

Export without formatting enables to significantly reduce the size of HTML files (up to 10 times smaller files) by omitting formatting strings. It is usefull in case user needs just texts and numbers for further calculations in Excel. (This possibility is available since version 15.2).

 

Export to Excel

Export to Excel enables to export of report directly into Microsoft Excel. With this option, only tables are exported. Images are not exported.

Open after export defines whether or not excel should be automatically opened after the export.

Export tables to multiple tabs defines whether the exported data be on one tab (when unselected) or multiple tabs (when selected)

Export to DDS

Export to DDS enables to store content of the report in the file. Those files can be then used it in another report via item External report.

 

Export to TXT

This kinds of export is intended for the SCIA internal usage.

The export to TXT file is prepared for automatic parsing of its content. It is not intended to be read by humans.

 

Export after external regeneration

This page of back stage view enables to define whether the report will be automatically exported into some file at the end of external regeneration.

External regeneration means the regeneration done at the end of Batch analysis or regeneration started from the Engineering Report manager.

On those pages it is possible to switch the automatic export ON/OFF, specify the file name and do necessary setting of export which will used during the future export.

It is possible to automatically export report into more types of files.