SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-1 TUTORIAL 9 CUSTOMIZING MSC.SOFY

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-2

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-3 As in the other tutorials, all menu items that need to be selected will be preceded by a maroon right arrow: >User action. Mouse buttons are indicated as follows: -- 1B = First (left) button -- used for selecting items -- 2B = Second (middle) button -- used for "OK" -- 3B = Third (right) button -- used for View Manipulation & pop-up menus Normally 1B is used, unless otherwise. Table Of Contents SectionPage Step1. Import MSC.Sofy Database. 3 Step2. Create Custom Menu. 4 Step3. Customize Your Keyboard. 7 Step4. Customize Your Mouse Buttons. 9 Step5. Step5.Change Canvas Options. 10 Step6. Style Options. 14 Step7. Multiple Canvases. 16 Step8. Explore Printer Setup. 18

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-4 a.Launch MSC.SOFY according to your local configuration. b. From the General Toolbar, click on the icon to Open SOFY database. Or Top Bar (select)>File Menu >Open SOFY DB - to open an existing SOFY database. c.For this tutorial, any SOFY database can be used, for example the wheelhouse panel from Tutorials 3 & 4: In the file dialog box - goto the directory SOFY3.0/SOFY_MASTER2/DEMOS/Tutorials_Basic/tutor03_Modeledit.sof (Exact path may depend on your local installation.) c Step1. Import MSC.Sofy Database.

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-5 Creation of Custom Menu a.In MSC.SOFY you can create your own custom menu system. b.Top bar select >Options >Custom Menus. c.This brings up a Custom Menu dialog box. d.Select >Create. e.Enter >MyMenu3 in the pop-up window f.Tear Off >Geometry from the top bar g.Select >Stitch >Extract Surface >(Un)Supress Entity >Trim Surf By Locs >Filler Surface >Create Hard Points >Delete Hole c e e f Step2. Create Custom Menu.

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-6 h.Click on >Add Separator from the Make Menu pop-up window i.Select >Faces On/Off >Hard Points On/Off >Mesh Points On/Off >Suppressed Edges >Conn Color >Body Color, then >Add Separator. j.Tear Off >Mesh menu from top bar to further add some more items to custom menu k. Select >Mesh Size >Update Mesh >Auto Mesh c j Step2. Create Custom Menu. (Cont’d)

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-7 l.Click >Save Prefs. m.Click on >Exit to close the pop-up Menu Creation panel. Note that you will lose your custom menu upon exiting MSC.SOFY session, if you do not save. n.Close all docked menus to clean up the screen. o.Top bar select >Custom panel to review your custom menu >MyMenu3. l o Step2. Create Custom Menu. (Cont’d)

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-8 Step3. Customize Your Keyboard. You can also customize your keyboard to execute your most commonly used commands with a keystroke. a.Menu bar> select >Options Hot Keys. b.A dialog box will appear on the canvas ab

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-9 c.Click on the Text Box from the dialog box to assign the combination key. d.Top bar >select >Mesh >AutoMesh. e. Click >Save Prefs from the dialog box. f. Click >Exit to close the dialog box. Note that you will lose your Key Specification combination upon exiting MSC.SOFY session, if you do not save. g.Clear Key will clear the combination Key assign to that Text Box. Likewise user can create any combination of Keys by selecting F7 - F12 or A - F or G - L or M - R or S - X or Y - Z d Step3. Customize Your Keyboard.

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-10 a.Menu bar (select) >Options Mouse Options. b.A dialog box will appear on the canvas c.Click on the Drop down Box from the dialog box to assign the mouse button and combination key. d. Click on the Control + Shift and 1B mouse drop down box e.Select the Toggle Dynamic Rot. f.Click on >Apply to apply the mouse options g.Select >Exit to close the dialog box. h.Note that you will lose your Mouse Settings combination upon exiting MSC.SOFY session, if you do not save >Save. c e Step4. Customize Your Mouse Buttons. a

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-11 a.Menu bar (select) >Options >Canvas Options b.A dialog box will appear on the canvas c.Canvas Apply to All Canvases check box will apply the properties to all canvases a c Step5.Change Canvas Options.

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-12 d.Color To change the Color of the canvas drag the Slider of Red, Green, Blue with the 1B mouse, the canvas will appear as shown. Clicking the Black and White button will give the respective canvas background color. d Step5.Change Canvas Options. (Cont’d)

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-13 e.Size To change the Size of the canvas,click on the Units drop down to select the options Pixels, Millimeters and Inches, enter the desired Width and Height, Click Apply to apply the changes. e Step5.Change Canvas Options. (Cont’d)

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-14 f.Other Canvas Options g.Show Picture Toggle Check box is used to Show Picture (ON/OFF) from the Results menu on the canvas. h.SYNC. Canvas Toggle Check box is used to make Canvases Synchronous. (ON/OFF). f g h Step5.Change Canvas Options. (Cont’d)

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-15 Style Options: a.Change Fonts and GUI appearance Menu Bar> Options >Style Options. b.Appearance tab> choose between various preset GUI Styles> Windows, Motif, CDE, SGI, etc. c.Select >Fonts tab to select a different Font family or size. a Step6. Style Options. b c

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-16 d.Explore >Interface e.Explore >Printer tabs to see the available options. Step6. Style Options. (Cont’d) d e

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-17 Multiple Canvases: a.To Open a new canvas ->Top menu bar >Display >New Canvas. b.The new canvas opens as shown below. c.The newly open canvas (in this case Canvas 1 ) is now the active canvas. d. To make the Main Canvas active, click anywhere on the main canvas. Step7. Multiple Canvases. a c

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-18 e.Change the view and graphics in one canvas. f.Tile the canvases from >Display menu >Tile. g.Change graphics or view as desired in one canvas and the other is not affected. h.Saving Settings 1.If you wish to return to your customized colors, canvas size, etc. the next time you run MSC.SOFY, you must Save your options in >Options menu >Save Options. 2.To restore Factory Defaults, select >Options >Restore Factory Defaults. 3.Options >Auto Backup panel, show how to set up automatic save of SOFY database, and specify number of backup files to keep. f h-1 h-2 h-3 Step7. Multiple Canvases.

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-19 Printers: a.File >Print Setup to select and setup your postscript printer. b.You can also print images from MSC.SOFY to a file by selecting >Print to File button. c. Change image format at bottom of dialog Options> Image Format drop-down selection. d.Nine different image formats are available. e.If you wish to save multiple images in a series with automatic file name incrementing, f.Click the button >Print Series. g.User can select default >Directory and file >Name, (for example “stiffness”) and >Count (starting number, for example “100”). h.Saved images will be named file.bmp for example. i.Each time you save an image the number 100 will be incremented to 101, 102, etc. j.To print: >File >Print, then select either >Canvases or >Window. Step8. Explore Printer Setup. a b j

SOF101, Tutorial 9, January 2005 Copyright  2005 MSC.Software Corporation T9-20 Congratulations !!! You have just completed Tutorial 9 !!!