A One Minute Introduction to REPORTER

A one-minute introduction to REPORTER

REPORTER is designed to help you automate your Ansys LS-DYNA analysis post-processing. The idea is that you create a template which contains the intructions or 'recipe' for how to process an analysis. When you run REPORTER on some analysis results, it takes this template, applies it to the analysis and creates a report which you can save as PowerPoint, PDF or HTML.

For example, you may wish to run a set of standard checks on an analysis after it has run to check that the analysis teminated normally, that there was not too much added mass, that the energy balance is acceptable, etc. You could create a checking template in REPORTER and then this would be applied to each analysis you want to check.

A summary of the steps required to make a template is:

1. Start REPORTER . See Running REPORTER for more details.
2. Create a template. See Creating a new template for more details.
3. Create pages (and/or a master page) if required. See Inserting and editing pages for more details.
4. Add objects on to pages. These can be simple things such as lines, text etc or advanced things like D3PLOT or T/HIS objects. See Inserting and editing simple objects and Advanced objects for more details.
5. Use variables to make the template generic. See Working with Variables for more details.
6. Save the template. See Saving a template for more details.

Once you have created a template you can apply it to analyses as many times as you want.

1. Start REPORTER . See Running REPORTER for more details.
2. Open the template. See Opening a template for more details.
3. Set the current analysis variable(s). See User defined variables for more details.
4. Generate the report. See Generating reports for more details.
5. Create output such as report, PowerPoint, HTML, PDF etc. See Outputting a generated report for more details.