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Subject: Re: Status Bar? #1
Author: David Ballenger
Date: 1999-01-15 09:51:00

GREAT IDEA!!!!!!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: McGlaun, Monte [SMTP:MMcGlaun@b...]
>Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 6:46 PM
>To: xansys@o...
>Subject: [xansys] Re: FW: Status Bar? #1

>From: "McGlaun, Monte"

>Ernst,

>Here, here. In July 97, I attended the 5.4 ASD training in Pitt and asked
>for status info on the graphics bar. Besides the info you stated, the plot
>type would be logical since the legend may or may not be turned on (ie, elem
>plot, area plot, volu plot, von Mises, etc.). Also I would like to have the
>jobname and other "selectable" items automatically plot in the legend. And,
>have Subtitles be optionally plotable. The subtitles are much easier to
>manage that the annotation. More flexibility in notations would really help
>the project documentation process. Another possibility might be an
>automatically indexing plot control number. Already there is a time and
>date stamp, so a control number would help in keeping track of the many
>plots that emerge during the documentation of a complex project.

>I just remembered the upcoming HTML project documentation engine. It is the
>right medicine. The demo I saw was stunning. I understand that it will be
>distributed in 5.5.2 and will automatically create an initial report with
>plots, properties, status, etc. As shown to us during the demo, it will
>fill a tremendous gap that has existed with ANSYS.

>Thanks for triggering the thought process,

>Monte

>* Monte A. McGlaun
> Drive Systems Analysis
> Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
> Box 482
> Fort Worth, Texas 76101
> (817) 280-5820 voice, -2239 FAX
> mmcglaun@b...

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hustedt, Ernst [mailto:Ernst.Hustedt@a...]
>Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 5:06 PM
>To: Xansys (E-mail)
>Subject: [xansys] FW: Status Bar? #1

>From: "Hustedt, Ernst"

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hustedt, Ernst
>> Sent: Friday, 15 January 1999 12:00
>> To: Xansys (E-mail)
>> Subject: Status Bar? #1

>> I may be going over old ground here, but this has frustrated me
>> particularly during building / modifying the model I am working on at the
>> moment.
>> It's a reasonably complex structure with a number of TYPEs, REALs, MATs,
>> CSYSs etc. Too often when I had to define a new element, say, I am half
>> way through picking the nodes when I have to quit and check whether the
>> attribute setting is correct. I check it, set it, someone asks me the
>> time, I answer the phone, I issue and I can't remember what the
>> setting is and check it again .........and all that when we are always in
>> a hurry.

>> May be I am getting old, but what about a status line in the graphics
>> window bar ?

>> | ANSYS Graphics ET=2, MAT=3, REAL=4, CSYS=12 ...................

>> May be the user should be able to put there what ever is useful at the
>> time depending on PREP or POST etc.

>> Am I alone here?

>> Cheers
>> Ernst

>> Dr. Ernst Hustedt,
>> Air New Zealand Ltd. Engineering Services,
>> P.O. Box 14005, Christchurch Airport,
>> Christchurch, New Zealand.
>> fax: +64+3/ 3747-035
>> phone: +64+3/ 3747-680
>> ernst.hustedt@a...

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230Re: Status Bar? #1Ernst Hustedt1999/01/14 
231Re: Status Bar? #1 -ReplyMark Tate1999/01/14 
232Re: Status Bar? #1Monte McGlaun1999/01/14 
233Re: Status Bar? #1Jean-Pierre Dube1999/01/14 
238Re: Status Bar? #1Dan Bohlen1999/01/15 
242Re: Status Bar? #1David Ballenger1999/01/15 
244Re: Status Bar? #1Christopher Wright1970/01/01 
246Re: Status Bar? #1Xiao Gong1999/01/15