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CAST program provides two ways to view the model and the
results of the analysis: graphical displays and tabular displays.
Graphical Displays
- We can have a different type of
graphical display for each display window. Each window may also have its own
view orientation and display options selected from the Set Object View Options
dialog box (see Figure 14). We can have any number of display windows at the
same time. Since each window can show certain
display options, hundreds of displays can be generated. In order to become
familiar with them, you should try every display option available in the Set
Object View Options dialog box.
- Each active display window image can
be captured, placed into clipboard in the bitmap format, and then pasted into
another computer program which supports bitmap images. This option is useful,
for example, when you want to include images from CAST in the design report. To capture an image of a display window:
- Activate the display window where the image we want to
capture resides by clicking the display window.
- Select Copy Image to Clipboard from the Edit menu. This can also be accomplished by right clicking on the display window so that a
pop-up menu similar to Figure 32 appears, and then
selecting Copy Image to Clipboard from the menu.
- The Set Image
Area for Windows' Clipboard dialog box (Figure 33) will then
appears. Use this dialog box to define the desired image size.
- Click the OK button.
- The detailed info of each STM Element can be obtained by right clicking
the STM Element in interest. Figure 34 shows how the
detailed info for STM Element E4
is presented.
- Similarly, the detailed info of each STM Node can also be obtained by
right clicking the STM Node in interest. Figure 35 shows
how the detailed info for STM
Node N4
is presented.
- A tooltip style window showing brief info of each STM Element or STM Node can be obtained by moving the
mouse over the STM Element or STM Node in interest while pressing the Shift
key. An example of the brief info for STM Element E6
is shown in Figure 36.
Figure 32 The Pop-up Menu for Copying Image to
Clipboard
Figure 33 The Set Image Area for Windows' Clipboard
Dialog Box
Figure 34 The STM Element Info Dialog Box
Figure 35 The STM Node Info Dialog Box
Figure 36 ToolTip Style Window Showing Brief Info about
STM Element ID E6
Tabular Displays
Tabular displays available in the current version of CAST Design Tool are in the form of tables and output files.
- Tabular information about the geometry of D-Region Boundary, STM Nodes, and STM
Elements are available from the Display menu.
- Tabular information about the stresses in STM Nodes and STM Elements are
also available from the Display menu.
- Tabular information in the form of file can be printed or displayed by choosing Display Output File from the Display menu. By selecting this option, a text file describing the complete
model and/or the analysis results will be created and browsed
by Notepad program.
- Customized input echo and analysis results can also be created in text file format by selecting Create Input/Output Text File from the File menu.
- If Microsoft Word program Version 97 or higher is installed in the same
computer system as CAST, design summaries can be created in Microsoft Word
Document format by selecting Create Design Summary in MS Word
from the File menu.
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