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     Report tab > (Create Template) > template file

📝 NOTE: The image that is displayed in the top of the Create Report icon and the Quick Access Toolbar short cut will change depending on which Create Report option (Text, HTML, or PDF) was last displayed.

The Create Report command button opens the Save Vericut Report window enabling you to specify the /path/filename for the report file to be created. If "User-Defined" information has not been previously defined, (either using the User-Defined Tag Values window or during a previous use of Create Report) Vericut will then prompt you for any unspecified User-Defined Tag values, then generate the report using the "current" report template. Choose one of the following report formats:

Text — Use this option to create a report in text format.

HTML — Use this option to create a report in HTML format.

PDF — Use this option to create a report in PDF format. (PDF report generation based in part on iText (https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/itext.html).

Introduction to Vericut Reports

Vericut Report provides the tools needed modify/create report templates enabling you to generate "custom" reports.

Generate reports that only include information important to your particular work environment, in a format that is most meaningful to the users of the report. Eliminate the need to search through the wide range of information that is included in a more generic "standard" report.

Vericut Reports:

Enables you to generate reports using one of the "standard" report templates supplied. The following "standard" report templates are included and can be found in the "library" folder of your Vericut installation:

inspection.VcTemplate — Use this template to create a basic inspection report that includes the inspection sequence table and graphic showing the location of the inspection points on the part. This is the default report template that Inspection Sequence will use if no other template has been specified.

📝 NOTE: Report template inspection.VcTemplate should only be used for creating reports from the Inspection Sequence window. Using it to create reports from other Vericut applications will result in incorrect data being displayed in the report.

vericut.VcTemplate — This is the default report template that Vericut will use if no other template has been specified.

vericut_basic.VcTemplate — Use this report template to create a report that contains overview information about the Vericut session. Information includes a file summary, and a Tool Summary table and Tool Use graph for each NC program file.

vericut_optipath.VcTemplate — Use this report template to create a report similar to the "basic" report but also includes Optimization information.

vericut_shadecopy.VcTemplate — Use this report template to create a report similar to the "basic" report but also includes View Capture images specified with Project tab > Settings > Auto Save tab: View Capture group.

vericut_full.VcTemplate — Use this report template to create a report similar to the "View Capture" report but also includes Optimization information.

📝 NOTE: The above five report templates should only be used for creating reports using Report tab > Create Report > ... in the main Vericut window. Using them to create reports from other Vericut applications will result in incorrect data being displayed in the report.

vericut_tools.VcTemplate — Use this report template to create a tool library report. This is the default report template that Tool Manager will use if no other template has been specified.

📝 NOTE: Report template vericut_tools.VcTemplate should only be used for creating reports from the Tool Manager window. Using it to create reports from other Vericut applications will result in incorrect data being displayed in the report.

  • Enables you to modify a "standard" report template by changing the content, layout and/or format of the included information and save it as a "custom" report template.

  • Enables you to produce "custom" report templates from "scratch". You decide the format, layout and content that best meet your needs.

  • Provides the tools to include a wide variety of information from different sources. Include text, tables or pictures. Extract information from the Vericut project file; include information from external files, or "generic tags" that will be updated with information specific to a particular user file at the time that the report is created.

What is involved with creating a custom Vericut report?

Creating and deploying a custom report for use by Vericut users involves the following steps.

  1. Set up "styles" to be used for the report template

  2. Define "user defined tags" that will be included in the template

  3. Create the page layout for the report template
  4. Using the report template

For more information on creating and using custom report templates, see Report Template window section of Vericut Help.