Project properties – Document
Properties listed below allow users to define basic project input/output data files.
Properties described below are valid XML tags in pdfPost configuration file. Details can be found here.
ProjectName
Project name is used for default file names. Project name can’t contain any of the following characters: \\ / : * ? \” < > |
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DataInputType
Type of the input data used by pdfPost. Currently only CSV option is avaiable.
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ElementsFile
File with the definitions of the finite elements exported from FEA software.
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NodesFile
File with the definitions of the finite elements exported from FEA software.
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ComponentsFile
File with components definitions. Each component definition contains a list of its element numbers.
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Preserve3DFile
This option allows user to save the 3D geometry outside of the PDF document. 3D geometry is in *.U3D format.
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OutputFile
Name of the PDF document with 3D FEA plots.
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NumberOfThreads
Number of threads to be used during geometry generation. \nSeparate threads are used to create each geometry component. High number of threads may be used, when geometry consists of a many small or medium sized components.
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