VII.3.3 Accessing the FEM and Results
This spreadsheet allows to manipulate the Groups stored in current DataBase. In columns “A” to “G”,
one presents several automation buttons that allow to manipulate directly the entities stored in a
Group:
- The name of the Group being manipulated is stored in cell “C3”. This name can be set
manually, or selected in the menu just below if it already exists in the DataBase.
- The entities to be set, removed or added are defined in columns “A” to “E” and lines 11
to ... Column “A” corresponds to entity types. Column “B” is used when a single entity
is to be added to the Group. Columns “C” to “E” defines ranges by looping on the entity
IDs. Some of the cells may be left void.
- Button “Add Group to current Db” builds the Group defined by its name and entities
and stores it in the DataBase. If a Group with the same name is already defined in the
DataBase, it is replaced by the new Group.
- Button “Add Entities to Existing Group” adds the defined entities to the entities of a
Group already existing in the DataBase.
- Button “Remove Entities from Existing Group” performs the reverse operation.
Four buttons allow to build new Groups by topological operations on existing Groups. The operations
correspond to the four topological operators defined in “Group” class. The “Group1” and “Group2”
operands must be existing Groups of the current DataBase. The resulting “Group3” can be already
existing in the current DataBase or a new Group set manually.