Creating, Opening and Exporting Reports
Creating a New Report
You can start with a blank report by choosing the File/New/Report Template menu. You can then populate the report by adding various report items (text fields, images, labels etc) and then save it.
Opening a Report
You can open a report for editing by choosing the File/Open menu and picking a report template file (these are files with the .ftrep extension). Before you can open a report template to work with, you should first have a part open, and you should have processed the part to completion (you should generate the appropriate Bend/Cut/Fold technology data). This is because the report designer works with live data; it shows actual data from the part as you design the report, so you can immediately see what the final printed result will look like.
Exporting a Report
When you have a report template open, you can use the File/Export to PDF or the File/Export to HTML commands to render the report to PDF format, or HTML format.
The HTML files generated by the Flux report writer are self-contained. They include all the necessary images, style sheets and other resources embedded right inside the HTML file. Thus, they can easily be transported or archived without any external dependencies.
The report is printed using the data from the part that is currently open and active. You can also switch the report between the live data view (the default) and a design view that displays the underlying expressions that are used to populate the various fields in the report.
