Project properties – Document

• Document
  ProjectName
  DataInputType
  ElementsFile
  NodesFile
  ComponentsFile
  OutputFile
  Preserve3DFile
  NumberOfThreads

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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