Configure postpro¶

Choose which images and movies each Attitude generates on the Run's PostPro Setup tab. The options you choose from, and how they're drawn, are defined on the Postpro Settings page.

Before you start

The PostPro Setup tab and the Postpro Settings page are hidden for restricted Users, and for Users whose settings hide CFD setup.
New Attitudes copy their postpro selections from their baseline Attitude. See set a baseline.
You can't change the PostPro Setup of an archived Attitude, or of an example Run.

Choose an Attitude's postpro¶

Open the Run and go to the PostPro Setup tab. It has one column per Attitude.
In the PostPro Selections row, click the pencil icon in the Attitude's column.
In PostPro Selections, click the options you want. They're grouped by category. To start from the baseline Attitude's choices, click Copy from Baseline.
Click Save, or choose Save to All from the Save menu to apply the same selections to every Attitude you can edit.

Do the same in the other rows as needed:

Row	Pencil opens	Sets
PostPro Selections	PostPro Selections	The images and movies to generate
Camera Set	Update Camera Set	The Camera Set to render from. Cameras lists the cameras in it
Delta PostPro Selections	Delta Postpro Selections	The delta images and movies to generate against the baseline
Extra PostPro Deltas	Update Delta Attitudes	More Attitudes to generate delta postpro against, from any Run you can open. Pick the Attitude, click Add, then Save or Save to All
PostPro For Offsets Only	(checkbox)	Following-vehicle Maps only. Only available when the Map entry has an "Offset Duplicates" parameter

For following vehicles, deltas to the lead model are added automatically.

When a save succeeds, Bramble shows "Postpro Setup updated".

Changing postpro after it has run

Changes aren't applied to postpro that's already been generated. Use Re-run in the Post-Process or Create Delta PostPro row of the Summary tab. See re-run post-processing.

Generate a Camera Set¶

Generate Camera Set creates a Camera Set for the Run from its geometry.

On the PostPro Setup tab, click Generate Camera Set.
Enter a Camera Distance. Bramble estimates one when you've opened the Part model viewer. Otherwise the default is 8.
Click Generate. This replaces all Camera Sets on the Run.

It's disabled for a Run with no Assemblies.

Edit the Postpro Settings¶

Postpro Settings apply to the whole Account

Any User who isn't restricted can edit the Postpro Settings, and every change affects every Programme, Project and Run in the Account, including post-processing that runs later. Agree changes with your team first, and copy a row rather than editing one that others rely on.

To open the page, in the sidebar, under Setup & CAD, click Postpro Settings. Or click Edit Postpro Settings on a Run's PostPro Setup tab. The page's back button then returns you to the Run.

The page has five tabs. Each is a table, and the search box filters the current tab.

Tab	Defines
Palette	The colour map for each variable: Name (e.g. "Cp"), Palette, Minimum, Maximum and Number Of Levels
Calculations	Derived variables: Name, Expression, the input Variables, and a Filter
Library	The postpro options. Each row is one button in PostPro Selections
Composition	The layout of each image: Logo, Font, Config and Legend
View Variant	Render styles, such as surface plots or LIC, used by a Library row's Views. Includes the image Size and Lighting

Library rows have these main fields:

Field	Sets
Name	The button label in PostPro Selections
Task	The kind of post-processing, such as surface plots or a movie
Description	A description of the option
Views	The View Variants to render, e.g. Plot, LIC, Movie
Cameras	A pattern matching the camera names to render from
Times	Which solution times to use, e.g. `latest`
Input Files / Output Files	The exported data to read, and the image names to write
Variables	The variables to plot, from the Palette names
Options	Switches, such as reflecting a half-car model to show a full car
Category	Groups the button in PostPro Selections

Add, copy, edit or delete a row¶

Open the tab.
Click New for a new row, or the Create copy, edit or delete icon on an existing row.
Fill in the dialog. For list fields, use Add and Remove.
Click Save. To delete, confirm with Delete in Delete Postpro Data.

Each tab needs at least one default row. If one doesn't have any, the page shows "should contain at least one default value".

Add a new postpro option¶

If the option needs a new variable, add it on the Palette tab, or on the Calculations tab for a derived variable.
On the Library tab, add a row, or copy a similar one. Fill in at least Name, Task, Description, Views, Cameras, Times, Input Files, Output Files and Variables.
Click Save. The new option appears in PostPro Selections on every Run in the Account.
On the Run's PostPro Setup tab, select the option for the Attitudes you want.
On the Summary tab, click Re-run in the Post-Process row and choose New only.

If you rename or delete a Library row, Attitudes that selected it skip that option.