HyperWorks Desktop automatically adds the Altair add-in tool to PowerPoint when you first use
PowerPoint Publishing. The Altair menu options allow you
to take the updates from your PowerPoint presentation and sync them to your HyperWorks Desktop session. You can also view the tag names and actual
values of the object in the presentation using View Names and View Values. Figure 1.
Sync Live
Click Sync Live to perform a live update to your
PowerPoint presentation with the changes made to your HyperWorks Desktop session.
Tag Table
Displays the tag name for each object in your session and its format.
From this table, you can view the tags and verify that the connections
or links between the HyperWorks Desktop session and
PowerPoint are established. The connection is retained by the tag name.
To change the tag's format, click in the Format cell and select a new
type from the drop-down menu.
For Linux Only: Sync File
On Linux, you can also sync a modified
PowerPoint presentation, however the work flow is different. You can
publish from a HyperWorks Desktop session to a new
PowerPoint file only; the other options are disabled in the Publishing
PowerPoint GUI. If you modify your HyperWorks Desktop
session, you cannot synchronize those changes with an existing or opened
PowerPoint file using live link like you can on Windows. You have to use
Publish to transfers those changes to an existing PowerPoint
presentation.
A *.vbs file, *.xml file and
the directory [demo_pptData] are created when you publish from HyperWorks Desktop on Linux to
PowerPoint. Double-click the *.vbs file to open the
PowerPoint file when you want to create a new PowerPoint
presentation.
When you want to update your presentation from PowerPoint, use
Sync File to load the XML file that contains
any changes to the HyperWorks Desktop session. See Using PowerPoint
Publishing on Linux for more information.
View Names
Click View Names to view the tag names on the
PowerPoint slides. The tag values indicate if the tag came from HyperWorks Desktopp or if it was directly added in PowerPoint.
For example, below is an example of a HyperWorks Desktop
session tag: Figure 2.
Text tags are string-based and require a string match to retain a
connection. If you enter text in the tagged text field in PowerPoint,
the tag will break. The broken tag is displayed in red. A broken tag
also displays Missing "Tag Name" on the PowerPoint slide. For example,
the text "Crash Comparison" has been altered in PowerPoint and as a
result, the tag is broken, as illustrated in the image below. Figure 3.
View Values
Click View Values to view the actual values of
the tags (images, animations, plots and text) in PowerPoint file.
