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Session 2: Complete Data Entry Components

Estimated completion time → 45 minutes.

In this practical session, you will complete the data entry components on your EASAP’s graphical user interface (GUI). The figure below provides a view of how your EASAP should look at the end of this session.


Please follow the instructions below to complete this practical session.

  • Log in, and Set Mode→Author.
  • Go to EASA→Applications→My EASAPs and find your ‘Rectangular Plate’ EASAP
  • Click on it and then click on the EASAP Builder link in the new page.
  • After the EASAP Builder window appears,
    • Expand the USER INTERFACE branch
    • Similarly expand the TABBED PANE LIST.
    • Right-click edges
      • Select Sibling→Add TABBED PANE.
        • Rename it loads
          • Set one parameter:
            • Tab:'3. Loads on Plate'

Nested within the loads TABBED PANE you will create two new TABBED PANES: the user will specify concentrated loads on the first, and on the second will specify a uniform load.

  • Right-click on loads
    • Select Child→Add TABBED PANE LIST ()
      • Right-click it
        • Select Child→Add TABBED PANE.
          • Rename it concentrated
            • Set:
              • Tab:‘Concentrated Loads’

Now add a second TABBED PANE.

  • Right-click concentrated
    • Select Sibling→Add TABBED PANE ()
      • Rename it uniform
        • Set:
          • Tab:‘Uniform Load’
  • Right-click concentrated
    • Select Child→Add SUB PANE
      • Set:
        • Border:'Location'
  • Right-click this SUB PANE
    • Select Child→Add SLIDER ()
      • Rename it xloc
        • Set the following parameters:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Default:50
Upper Bound:100
Lower Bound:0
Number of Divisions:20
Label:X (% of width)
  • Make a copy of xloc using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-B
  • Rename the new SLIDER yloc
    • Change one parameter:
      • Label:'Y (% of length)'
  • Right-click the above SUB PANE
    • Select Sibling→Add REALBOX
      • Rename it input_Lc
        • Set parameters below:

Note: Set Units: first and then select 'kip' from the dropdown menu at the far right when you set the other parameters.

Parameter Name Parameter Value
Units:Force
Default:0, kip
Label:Load magnitude (kip)
Upper bound:10, kip
Lower bound:0, kip

We need to create a new unit which will be used for uniform loads which is not in the default set of units.

  • On the Tree

When you create a DIMENSIONAL GROUP a Child CONVERSION is automatically created.

  • Expand the Stress2 object
    • Select conversion1
      • Rename it ksf, which stands for ‘kilo-pounds per square foot’,
        • Set the following parameters:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Unit:ksf
Factor:2.088543E-5

You are now ready to apply the newly created ksf unit.

  • On the Tree
    • Right-click USER INTERFACE→loads→TABBED PANE LIST→uniform
      • Select Child→Add REALBOX
        • Rename it Lu
          • Set parameters below: (start with Units: so you get the correct dropdown list for units)
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Units:Stress2
Default:0, ksf
Label:Load magnitude
Upper Bound:10, ksf
Lower Bound:0, ksf
  • Save and check your EASAP. The Tree should look like this:

The third TABBED PANE should look like this after clicking on the Test Web Browser button.

  • Return to the Builder
    • Right-click USER INTERFACE→TABBED PANE LIST→loads
      • Select Sibling→Add TABBED PANE
        • Rename it report
          • Set:
            • Tab:'4. Output Preferences'

On this pane you will create three data entry objects for users to input fields for the EASAP report title:

  • Name
  • Project title
  • Case title
  • Right-click report
    • Select Child→Add SUB PANE
      • Rename it row1
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Layout:HORIZONTAL
Show Border:FALSE
  • Right-click row1
    • Select Child→Add SUB PANE
      • Rename it titles
        • Set:
          • Border:'Report Titles'
  • Right-click titles
    • Select Child→Add INPUTBOX
      • Rename it name
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Label:Your name
Default:Name
Input Type:Text
  • Right-click name
    • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
      • Rename it project
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Label:Project title
Default:Project
Input Type:Text
  • Right-click project
    • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
      • Rename it case
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Label:Case title
Default:Case
Input Type:Text
  • Right-click titles
    • Select Sibling→Add SUB PANE
      • Rename it logo
        • Set:
          • Border:‘Report Logo’
  • Right-click on logo
    • Select Child→Add FILE CHOICE ()
      • Rename it file
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Label:Logo image file
File Filter:*.jpg
Rename To:logo.jpg
  • Right-click file
    • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
      • Rename it lw
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Default:250
Label:Logo width in pixels
Input Type:Number
  • Right-click lw
    • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
      • Rename it lh
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Default:43
Label:Logo height in pixels
Input Type:Number
  • Right-click TABBED PANE LIST→report→row1
    • Select Sibling→Add SUB PANE
      • Rename it row2
        • Set the same parameters as row1 (below):
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Layout:HORIZONTAL
Show Border:FALSE
  • Right-click row2
    • Select Sibling→Add SUB PANE
      • Rename it tables
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Border:Report Tables
Layout:HORIZONTAL
Label Width:180
  • Right-click tables
    • Select Child→Add LOGICBOX ()
      • Rename it showdisp
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Default:TRUE
Label:Show table of plate displacements
Order:LABEL FIRST
Tool Tip:Check the box if you want a table of plate displacement values shown in your report
  • Right-click on showdisp
    • Select Sibling→Add SPACER ()
  • Right-click on the SPACER
    • Select Sibling→Add LOGICBOX ()
      • Rename it showmom
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Default:TRUE
Label:Show table of plate moments
Order:LABEL FIRST
Tool Tip:Check the box if you want a table of plate moment values shown in your report
  • Right-click on the tables SUB PANE
    • Select Sibling→Add SPACER ()
  • Right-click the SPACER
    • Select Sibling→Add BUTTON ()
      • Rename it button_submit
        • Set:
Parameter Name Parameter Value
Label:Submit Run
Tool Tip:Sends run submission of the EASAP to the EASA Server for processing
  • Right-click button_submit
    • Select Child→Add MENU ACTION ()
      • Set:
        • Action:'Submit'
  • Save and check your EASAP.

The EASAP Tree should look like this:

And the fourth TABBED PANE should look like this:

  • Exit EASAP Builder; either select File→Exit or just click on the x in the top-right corner of the window.
    • If a pop-up window asks whether to save or not, select ‘Yes’.

We have completed Session 2. Let's continue on to Session 3.


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