Exporting results

The vast majority of output results (e.g. generated artificial accelerograms, response spectrum, etc.) are made available to users in both table and graphical formats, and can be manipulated, edited and formatted through a number of editing functions.

With regards to tabled data, this can be copied to any other Windows application (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, etc.) by means of the copy command available through the program main menu (Edit > Copy Selection), through the respective toolbar button , through the table popup menu (available with the right-click mouse button) or through the keyboard shortcus (Ctrl+C). The user can select all the values in a table (Edit > Select All) or make use of the selection facility (using the Shift key or the mouse drag function) to select a limited number of table entries. Alternatively, the accelerograms time-history can also be exported into a text file through the Save Time Histories command, available from the File menu, or through the corresponding toolbar button . When this option is triggered, a new window will be displayed which allows users to extract information such as acceleration, velocity or displacement time histories.

Users can also copy, to an external Windows application, the plots of the results computed by SeismoArtif. This is accomplished through the program menu (Edit > Copy Chart), through the respective toolbar button , through the plot popup menu (available with the right-click mouse button) or through a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+C). Alternatively, these plots can also be printed directly from within the program, through the File > Print… command (users should make use of the preview facility, File > Print Preview…, to check the plot before sending it to the printer).

If users are interested in visualising, and exporting, only a part of the plot, they can zoom in and out by selecting a specific area on the graph (a top-left to bottom-right selection zooms in, whereas a bottom-right to top-left selection zooms out) or by using the corresponding menu commands (View > Zoom In and View > Zoom Out).

Finally, the format characteristics of all SeismoArtif plots can be customised to a users particular needs and likings, through the Tools > Graph Options where items such as the background colour, the thickness/style of lines, the font size of axes, legends, and plot titles, can all be adjusted to fit the preferences of the user.