Home  CFD-CADalyzer User Tips Manipulate Models within Microsoft Office Documents using OpenHSF
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Manipulate Models within Microsoft Office Documents using OpenHSF |
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Reports can be made more informative and presentations made more
dynamic by incorporating images of your models that can be manipulated
within the Microsoft environment. CFD-CADalyzer allows you to save
models in HSF format, which can then be incorporated in popular
Microsoft programs including Internet Explorer, PowerPoint, and
Word.
HSF enables you to rotate, pan, and zoom your model, view the animation
of a transient run, change background color, and adjust drawing
properties.
We will use the internal flow path of a Garden Sprinkler model to
demonstrate the use of an HSF file. Please Download the HSF
plug-in
from the link titled HOOPS 3D Stream Control before trying to
manipulate the HSF file.
The model shown below can then be manipulated as follows:
The left mouse button is used to rotate the model. The middle
mouse
button is used for zooming in and out of the model. Clicking the
right
mouse button brings up additional options for panning, smooth or
wireframe rendering, playing an animation and throwing a shadow of the
model. If you do not see the model, please click this link
http://support.esi-cfd.com/esi-users/openhsf/openhsf.html
Download the HOOPS 3D
Stream
Control.
This file was generated by CFD-CADalyzer.
If you are interested in this feature, please read on.
The following steps show the procedure for saving a HSF file out of
CADalyzer and embedding it in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- To save your CADalyzer
model as an HSF format file, go to
File Menu --> Save As -->HSF file. In this example, the
model is
saved as sprinkler.hsf.
- Launch Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Under View/Toolbars
select Control Toolbox.
- Select More Controls
from the
Control Toolbox and select
the Hoops 3D
Stream Control Class from the list.
- Left Click and drag an area on
the slide in which you want to embed the HSF file.
- Right-Click in the above area
and select the Hoops
3D Stream Control Class Object/Properties to open
a dialog for specifying the HSF filename.
- Browse for sprinkler.hsf,
select it, check the box for Embed, and click
OK.
- Hit F5 on the keyboard to
display the HSF file in the PowerPoint slideshow format.
- Saving the HSF file from
CADalyzer also saves a HTML file of the same name (sprinkler.htm)
automatically. The HTML file can be opened in a web browser where
the
HSF file can be manipulated. The html and hsf files can be found
here - sprinkler.htm,
sprinkler.hsf.
Right click on this link and select
“Save Target As..” to download this file to your computer's hard drive.
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If you have any questions about this
feature or would like us to
discuss some other topic in the future, please let us know.
Sekhar Radhakrishnan
Senior Applications Engineer
ESI Group
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