Project manager dialogue

Project manager dialogue is a tool which helps user to open, create or browse projects. It allows to adapt protection settings, use links and other options to manage the SCIA Engineer or find more information about it.

All these functionalities are stored in one dialogue.

Project information preview

The biggest advantage of the dialogue is a project information preview. Each project is complemented by a picture of a structure and basic information such as name, author, number of members, calculated results ...

• The top "play" button opens the selected project;
• Preview displays the slide-show of images from the project, it can be listed by arrows;
• The table contains the standard information about the project data, structure and calculation;

When the Project manager dialogue appears?

The dialogue is displayed when you click on the "+"-icon above the SCIA Spotlight or via Main menu > File > Project browser.

Using Project manager dialogue

Creating a new project

A new project may be created by

• clicking [New project]: a new, empty project is created in SCIA Engineer; the user is entirely free to define the configuration of the project
• selecting a template project from the [New from template] section

Recent projects

The user can select and open a recent project that he/she worked on in the past. The list of those projects is the same as is available in the SCIA Engineer main menu. Opening of the project can be done using double click.

The list of recent project is updated after restart of SCIA Engineer.

Browse

This button launches the system Open file dialogue and enables to select any wanted SCIA Engineer project file.

All standard functions are supported (Copy, Paste, New folder etc.).

Tutorials

A small selection of tutorials is available in the [Tutorials] section.

More tutorials can be found in SCIA Engineer itself, via Main menu > Help > Tutorials

Learning centre & other documentation

Additionally to the tutorials, several links are provided to documentation.

• Learning Center: direct access to our playlist "Getting Started with SCIA Engineer" on our Youtube-channel "SCIA nv", mainly intended for first time users
• Resource Center: fact sheets about modules of SCIA Engineer
• SCIA Website: SCIA homepage
• Web Help: general online help of SCIA Engineer

Licence settings in Start project dialogue

The Licences settings dialogue can be started by using the button Licence settings. Changes done in the licences setting are respected after a small delay. In case the SCIA Engineer is running, any changes done in the licences settings will be applied after restart of the application.

Search and sort the list of projects

The list of projects which is available for above mentioned tabs has common behaviour.

Search

It is possible to filter it using the "Search" field.

Sort

It is possible to sort the list according to one of columns. The sorting is switched by clicking on the column header. It have sequentially following three possible values (none, ascending, descending).