Generating new pictures according to line grid

The Picture gallery manager has not been designed for pure management of manually created pictures. It offers a powerful tool for an automatic generation of pictures. The generation may be based on line grids defined in the project or on designed connections.

The generation based on defined line grids goes through the project data and generates pictures corresponding to plane sections of the model made in individual line grid planes.

Parameters controlling the generation process

Definition of planes

All	Pictures will be generated for all possible planes of selected line grids.
Selected	The user will select the line grid planes that will be used for the generation of pictures.

 

View parameters

According to active window	View parameters for the pictures will be taken from the active window.
To structural types	View parameters adjusted for structural types are used for the pictures.

 

View direction

According to active window	View direction for the pictures will be taken from the active window.
Perpendicular to plane	All the pictures are made as viewed from the direction perpendicular to the corresponding picture plane.
View from structure outside	Additional functionality which generates the picture with the view point outside the structure.

 

Make picture

For all selected planes	The pictures are generated for all selected planes regardless of whether there are any entities in the plane or not.
Only planes with existing members	The pictures that would be empty because no entity is located in the corresponding plane will not be created.

 

Draw members

Only members in plane	Only members located exactly in the particular picture plane are drawn on the corresponding picture.
Members around plane	Members located exactly in the particular picture plane and around it in the specified depth are drawn on the corresponding picture.
Active depth forward	If the option above is ON, it is possible to specify the depth of the plane surrounding.
Active depth backward	Ditto

 

Draw loads + supports

To active window	Loads and supports are drawn only if they are shown in the active window.
No	Loads and supports are not put into the picture.

 

Draw result diagrams

To active window	Result diagrams are drawn only if they are shown in the active window.
No	Result diagrams are not put into the picture.

Grid selection

If more than one line grid has been defined, it is possible to select which ones should be used for the generation of planes for the pictures. This can be done in Used planes dialogue of the wizard.

Used line grids	This window lists all the line grids that have been selected for the generation.
All used line grid planes	This window lists all the planes that the wizard could generate for the selected line grids.
Select grid	This button allows the user to choose the line grids that will be used for the generation.

The procedure for the generation of "line-grid-based" pictures

1. Open the Picture gallery manager.
2. Click button [New by wizard] ().
3. The wizard starts.
4. If at least one item of both line grid and connection is defined in the project, select Create planes of line grid and click button [Run wizard]. If no connection has been defined in the project, this step is automatically skipped and the wizard started.
5. Now the first wizard dialogue is opened. It summarises default picture settings. If necessary, change any of the values.
6. Click button [Next].
7. Another wizard dialogue is opened on the screen. Specify parameters controlling the generation process.
8. Click button [Next].
9. The last wizard dialogue is shown to help you with the generation. Select grids that will be used for the generation.
10. Click button [Finish].
11. The appropriate pictures are generated and added to the Picture gallery.

 

Unless at least one line grid has been defined in the project it is not possible to run this wizard.