New Project
A project is an industrial study where CAD, mesh, pre-processing, solver and results files are stored in a unique directory.
A new directory can be created and must be selected. When the project's name is set, the following dialog box appears:
The New Project dialog box
Identifier
The user needs to name the new project and define its location. For that purpose the following fields and buttons are available:
- File: defines the new project name. It will be used as generic name for the files created by the program.
- Location: defines the directory that will contain the project files.
Type
Four types of project are available:
- Mesh: only CAD data and meshes can be manipulated in this type of project. It is not possible to assign pre-processing data to the mesh and to perform an analysis.
- QuikStamp Plus: the project is dedicated to a PAM-QUIKSTAMP Plus analysis, i.e. a multiple-stage calculation. Therefore all the capabilities of the program are available except those dedicated to a PAM-STAMP analysis.
- AUTOSTAMP: the project is dedicated to a PAM-STAMP or PAM-TUBE analysis, i.e. a multiple-stage explicit calculation. Therefore all the capabilities of the program are available except those dedicated to a PAM-QUIKSTAMP analysis.
- QuikStamp Full Process: the project is dedicated to a PAM-QUIKSTAMP Full Process analysis, i.e. a multi-stage implicit calculation. Much of the program capabilities are available to provide a fast time but accurate analysis.
- Inverse: the project is dedicated to an inverse analysis, i.e. a single stage implicit calculation.
Note:
· Whatever the type of project chosen, the project file saved have a .psp extension.
Title
The title defines the name of the pre-processing session. If no name is entered in this field the name of the project is assigned to the pre-processing session.
Comment
In this window the user can add some notes about the project.
Function Buttons
Two function buttons are associated with this dialog box:
- OK: validates the project creation.
- Cancel: closes the dialog box without performing any changes.