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About Data

 
Creating Sessions and Adding Data
PPT Copy to Clipboard
Exporting Data

Creating Sessions and Adding Data

When you start Adams PostProcessor, it starts a new session file for you, called a notebook. To get results of simulations into your notebook, you import the results. Once you've reviewed the simulation results, you can save your notebooks, if Adams PostProcessor is in Stand-alone mode, and you can export that data for use in other programs.
Learn more about how to create notebooks, save your work, and import data:

Creating a New Session

Each time you start Adams PostProcessor in Stand-alone mode, it creates a new session in which to work. You can also create a new session at anytime.

To create a new session:

■From the File menu, select New.

Saving a Notebook

In Stand-alone mode, Adams PostProcessor saves your current session in Notebooks. You can also save a copy of a notebook with a different name or in a different location. When you save a notebook, Adams PostProcessor saves all the pages you created and their content. It also saves the simulation results in the binary file. The results are not associated with the files you imported.

To save an existing, named session:

■From the File menu, select Save.

To save a new, unnamed session or to save a session with a new name:

1. From the File menu, select Save As.
2. Type a name for the notebook.
3. To save the document in a different directory, right-click the File Name text box, select Browse, and then select the desired directory.
4. Select OK.

Adding Data

You can import data from the types of files shown below into Adams PostProcessor to animate, plot, or view as a report. The data that you import appears at the top of the treeview.
■Adams View command (.cmd). See Import - Adams View Command Files.
■Adams Solver dataset (.adm). See Import - Adams Solver Dataset.
■Adams Solver analysis (.req, .res, .gra). See Import - Adams Solver Analysis Files.
■Adams Vibration results. See Importing Vibration Results.
■Numeric data. See Import - Test Data.
■DAC and RPC III. See Import - DAC or RPC III.
■Wavefront objects. See Export - Wavefront.
■Stereolithography and render. See Import - Stereolithography and Render Files.
■Shell. See Import - Shell.
■Reports. See Viewing Reports.

PPT Copy to Clipboard

1. To copy the contents of the entire page, right-click the page from the treeview and select Copy - To Clipboard. Both the animation pane and the plot pane can now be pasted as a single image into Word® or PowerPoint® (for example) by those applications’ “Paste” buttons or use Ctrl+V.
2. To copy the contents of an individual pane, select that pane by clicking in it and then right-click in empty space on the given pane and select Copy - To Clipboard (or use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C). The content of that particular pane can now be pasted as a single image into Word® or PowerPoint® (for example) by those applications’ “Paste” buttons or use Ctrl+V.

Exporting Data

You can export animation and plotting data in the following formats.
■Spreadsheet format. See Export - Spreadsheet Data.
■Numeric data. See Export - Numeric Test Data.
■DAC and RPC III data. See Export - DAC or RPC III.
■Tables (HTML or spreadsheet format). See Exporting Plots as Tables.
 
Note:  
You can also record animations as AVI movies, TIFF files, and more. For more information, see Recording Animations.

Exporting Plots as Tables

To export plots as tables:

1. From the File menu, point to Export, and then select Table.
2. Type a name for the file.
3. Enter the name of the plot containing the data.
4. Select either html or spreadsheet.
5. Select OK.