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:

• 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.

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
  • Right-click USER INTERFACE→UNIT MANAGER
    • Select Child→Add USER UNITS ()
      • Right-click USER UNITS
        • Select Child→Add DIMENSIONAL GROUP ()
          • Rename it Stress2
            • Set one parameter:
              • Base Unit:'N/m^2'

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:

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)

• 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:

• 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:

• Right-click name
  • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
    • Rename it project
      • Set:

• Right-click project
  • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
    • Rename it case
      • Set:

• 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:

• Right-click file
  • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
    • Rename it lw
      • Set:

• Right-click lw
  • Select Sibling→Add INPUTBOX
    • Rename it lh
      • Set:

• Right-click TABBED PANE LIST→report→row1
  • Select Sibling→Add SUB PANE
    • Rename it row2
      • Set the same parameters as row1 (below):

• Right-click row2
  • Select Sibling→Add SUB PANE
    • Rename it tables
      • Set:

• Right-click tables
  • Select Child→Add LOGICBOX ()
    • Rename it showdisp
      • Set:

• Right-click on showdisp
  • Select Sibling→Add SPACER ()
• Right-click on the SPACER
  • Select Sibling→Add LOGICBOX ()
    • Rename it showmom
      • Set:

• Right-click on the tables SUB PANE
  • Select Sibling→Add SPACER ()
• Right-click the SPACER
  • Select Sibling→Add BUTTON ()
    • Rename it button_submit
      • Set:

• 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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