Creating Multiple Images from a Single D3PLOT Session

Creating multiple images from a single D3PLOT session

From D3PLOT 17.0 onwards, you can quickly capture and generate multiple images from a single D3PLOT session as separate D3PLOT items. The old method of capturing D3PLOT items with multiple child images is no longer needed because its main purpose was to avoid having to launch D3PLOT multiple times to generate a single template. Now that D3PLOT and REPORTER are linked, all of the items in a template can be generated from a single session. The old method described below is only preserved to help keep old templates working.

You are not limited to making a single image in D3PLOT . Using the Objects floating menu you can capture as many images as you want in a single D3PLOT session. A tab will be created in the Edit D3PLOT object window for each image you capture. For example as well as making a von Mises stress image we may also want to make an image showing plastic strain.

Each image has its own properties and settings file and optionally extra command files and/or a JavaScript. In REPORTER an Image file is created for the second and subsequent images and these are linked to the 'parent' D3PLOT object.

To help show which objects are linked together they are coloured differently to normal objects. The first group will be red, the second green, the third blue...

If you modify the 'parent' D3PLOT object the 'child' Image file objects will be added/updated/deleted as required.