Report visual style

Report visual style is one of special report items which can be inserted into document and which can change the style of the report. Visual style represents mainly:

• fonts
• colours and thickness of table lines
• setting of 2D result legends

Once the Style item is inserted into the report, its setting is respected from the following page. In case there is no Style item inserted into the document, the default style prepared by Scia is used.

Setting of Style can be changed in Style editor which is accessible via Edit button on ribbon.

Style editor

Left part of the dialogue is dedicated to editing, right part of the dialogue contains preview of the page.User can immediately see the impact of his changes here.

On the top of the editor there are buttons for confirmation or cancelling of changes and buttons for storing or opening of files with Page layouts. There is also a combo-box with a list of existing predefined page layouts files. Those files are searched in the DocumentDefault\PageLayout subdirectories of the Scia Engineer installation directory and USER directory.

Fonts

In the Fonts panel it is possible to define fonts for different types of texts. Changes is realized by selection of text type and changing the font setting.

Explanation of text types is displayed on the picture.

Since version 14.1 there are three new types of fonts

• Table - minimum
• Table - maximum
• Table - general extreme (used very rarely)

Those fonts defines how the extremes in tables are displayed

Table cells

On the Table cells panel it is possible to define lines thickness, lines colour and background colour for table header, table left column or standard cells (see explanation picture in Fonts chapter). Margins means offsets from the cell borders.

Palette for 2D results

User can define background colour of 2D result legend palette and its margins.

Content

On the Content panel user can modify geometrical arrangement of the table of content.

Advanced setting

On the Advanced properties panel it is possible to define spaces between document items, style of displaying of logical values, position of Scia logo within the paper and it is possible to switch whole document into grey scale mode.

Space between document items means size of gap between end of previous table (picture, text, ...) and top of next chapter.

Space between block items means size of gap between sub-tables.

Space between name and item means the gap between the chapter text and the table (picture, text, ...) itself.

Space between split tables defines space between columns.

Style of logical values enables to define the way of displaying True / False values.

Scia logo can be displayed in one of paper corners.

Grey scale makes whole document including all texts and pictures to be displayed in grey scale mode.