Generating a Short Report

You can use Short Report to generate status reports providing the list of the fasteners of given products and their representations. More specifically, the reports provide relevant information about broken links and help you identify issues. The information appears into tab-separated text files. You can print these reports.

Before you begin: Specify the directory in which you want to save the report file. To do so, select Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Multi Discipline Engineering > Fastening.
  1. In the work area, select the fasteners for which you need to generate a report.
    The elements and the parent of the highest level are selected.
  2. From the Fastener Section of the action bar, click Short Report .
  3. Optional: Customize the report by selecting the options you need:
    • Long report: adds projection results, user-defined additional information, and fastener components information for each fastener.
    • Include comments: specifies that the report starts with the commented header block showing keywords description.
    • Ordered zones sorting: available with long reports only. Specifies how the fastener part specifications and projections are ordered in the report. If the option is selected, they appear in the order in which the spot fastener crosses the fastened parts. If cleared, no particular criterion is applied, that is, the order is the same as fastened parts order specified in the fastener connection.
    • Translate coded values: defines attribute values belonging to a predefined list of codes are translated according to the NLS (National Language Support) set-up.

  4. Click OK.
  5. Open the report file.

 

See Also
Generating an Immersive Report
About the Report of Fasteners