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| Product(s): | AutoPIPE | ||
| Version(s): | 2004, XM, V8i | ||
| Environment: | N/A | ||
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| Original Author: | Bentley Technical Support Group | ||
| Date Logged & Current Version | Feb. 2015 09.06.01.10 | ||
Problem:
After I complete my design and analyze static, then go to Results/Code Stresses/Stress, I see the stresses throughout the design. Great. When a point is selected I see an information box come up. It says what point I have selected and then a bunch of information. What is Sustained (Max) and Rest-Fun (Max)?
Answer:
On the screen in reference is call the floating F3-Text Results dialog. After opening the result grid, the F3-Text results dialog corresponding to the current tab and can be displayed by toggling the F3-Text key or pressing OK in the command window. The F3-Text results dialog will be automatically close after switching to a different tab.
The results grids is conducive to display a lot of information. However the F3-Text Results pop-up can only display so much information at one time. Therefore the development team added a feature to the F3- Text Results pop-up to view more information. As indicated at the bottom of the F3 - Text Results pop-up dialog, the user can cycle through the multiple lines of results (when available) by using the PgDn or PgUp buttons on the keyboard.
Furthermore, to make it easier for review purpose, instead of cycling through all this data on the F3-Text Results dialog the development team provide a means to look at the max value for a give code stress category. Therefore xxxx(MAX) is nothing more than the max value for a give code stress category.
One drawback about the F3-Text Results, as the user moves the current node point along the segment, the results on the pop-up screen need to be refreshed for each new node point location and paging command (Example, with the F3-Text Results open select a bend's Near or Far point, and then select the same bend TIP point, the stress values are the exactly the same as the there is no data for a bend TIP point.) As a result, a user might confuse the results from one node point as the results for the current node point before the pop-up was refreshed.
The actual results grids has many features for reviewing the analysis results: turn on/off specific code combinations, double click on column headings to order an entire column in ascending / descending order, hide / unhide column, etc.. Most users find working with the grids faster and more intuitive than using the F3-Text Results dialog screen. The only mis-understanding about the results grid are with a few piping codes there are results for a small percentage of node points in the model that require a different set of units. Instead of adding another entire column, codes some columns on the code stress tab only perform double duty where the value in the cell does not have the units listed at the top of the column. The correct units can be seen on the output report.
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