File or Project Menu
Project Menu after a file or project has been opened
Depending if a project (or a file) is currently open or not, the layout of the menu changes.
The different options provided by the File or Project menu are listed below:
- New: this option enables the user to create a new project, a DeltaMESH module, a Design module, a macro-command or a material.
· Project: opens the New Project dialog box.
· DeltaMESH module: this option enables the user to create a module in which he can import and mesh CAD files by using the mesh generator DeltaMESH®.
· Design module: this option enables the user to create a module in which he can import and work on mesh files as well as perform a PAM-DIEMAKER session.
· Stamp Toolkit: opens the New Macro dialog box.
· Material: calls up the New Material dialog box.
- Open: opens the standard File Selector to open various types of files ranging from Pam-Stamp project to pre/post-processing files.
- Close: closes the active project window (i.e. the active 3D graphical window).
- Close All: closes all the project windows (i.e. all the 3D graphical windows).
- Save: save the active project (*.psp).
- Save As:
· New Project: saves the project with a new name, a new location or changes its type.
· New module: when a DeltaMESH module is currently active, it opens the Save DeltaMESH module dialog box to copy partially or totally the current DeltaMESH module in a new one. When a design module is currently active, it opens the Creation of new design module dialog box.
- Save variations: leads to the Save variations dialog box for saving different versions of the current AutoStamp project where the blank is slightly moved or resized, for sensibility study. This menu is available only if the Optimization option is active.
- Management: opens the Management Project dialog box to copy, paste or delete a project.
- Information: gives information about the project structure.
- Restart files: this option enables the user to modify the access pathway to the restart files.
- Transfer mesh to: transfers a mesh from a DeltaMESH module or a design module or to the set up module. Can also transfer a mesh from a DeltaMESH module to a design module.
- Import: imports 'geometry' or 'mesh' data from various types of files in the current 3D graphical window.
· CAD: this option enables the user to import and mesh CAD files depending on the current module. If the current module is a DeltaMESH module, it opens the Meshing dialog box. If the current module is the setup or the Design module of an AutoStamp or QuikStamp project, it opens the Import of CAD model dialog box. If the current module is the setup of an Inverse project, it opens the Inverse CAD meshing dialog box.
· Mesh: opens the standard File Selector to open a mesh file originated from the most common simulation software products.
· Computed Model: imports entities and their attributes from a previous calculation.
· DieMaker 2001 Project: opens the standard File Selector to open a Viking project file with the extension .prj
· DieTrimming mesh: opens the standard File Selector dialog box to import data when working with the “dietrimming” tools.
- Export: exports 'geometry', 'mesh' or 'graphic' data from the current 3D graphical window to various types of files.
· CAD: opens the standard File Selector to export a CAD file with the extension .igs or .vda
· Mesh: opens the standard File Selector to export a mesh file into the format of one of the most common simulation software products.
· DieMaker 2001 Project: opens the standard File Selector to save a Viking project file with the extension .prj
· DeltaMesh database: opens the standard File Selector to save a DeltaMesh project file with the extension .dtc
· Contour: opens the standard File Selector to save a binary file, with the extension .bf, containing the node or element labels plus their associated result value. Contours may be reimported in a postprocessing session.
· Image: saves an image of the active 2D or 3D graphical window.
· Animation: saves the animation of an active 3D graphical window.
· VRML: opens the standard File Selector to save the active 3D view into a 3D scene using the VRML format (extension .wrl).
· Frame: opens first a dialog box to choose the frame to save then the standard File Selector to save the coordinate system (extension .vda).
· DieTrimming mesh: opens the standard File Selector dialog box to export data when working with the “dietrimming” tools.
- Print Setup: not implemented yet. Defines the printer and specifies the printer properties.
- Print Preview: not implemented yet.
- Print: not implemented yet.
- 1,2,3…: lists the previous opened files, and enables the user to re-open one of them.
- Exit: closes all the dialog boxes and exits the program.