Importing Shapes Using Spreadsheet Format

• Use the ME'scope Shape A Shape consists of two or more measured or calculated values at Poitn & directions on a structure or acoustic surface. Specific types of shapes are an Operating Deflection Shape (ODS), mode shape, acoustic shape, and Engineering Data Shape (EDS). Shape components can be Translational, Rotational, or Scalar. For correct shape animation, all shape components must have correct magnitude & phase values relative to one another. Table spreadsheet (.TXT) file format to import shape data in ASCII text spreadsheet format.

• The ME'scope spreadsheet format is columns of text separated by delimiters, such as commas or tab characters.

Creating a .TXT File Template

To create an .TXT file template,

• Start with any Shape Table (SHP) file in ME'scope.

• Use any file from one of the Projects in the Examples or Demos folder.

• Open the Shape Table (SHP) file.

• Execute File | Export and export the file in .TXT format.

Add Your Data To The .TXT File

• Open the .TXT file in a spreadsheet program like MS Excel or a word processor like MS Word

• Replace the shape data in the spreadsheet columns with your data.

• Edit the other information where applicable.

• Save the file to disk.

Import The .TXT File

Make sure that the .TXT file is no longer open in the spreadsheet or word processor program before importing it to ME'scope.

• Execute File | Import | Shape Table in the ME'scope window and import the .TXT File.