SIO the other newsletter – No. 154: Update: Simplified Reporting with FilmDoctor®
By Troy vom Braucke and Nick Bierwisch
In a recent newsletter we discussed the application of a jet landing on a runway to understand the stresses in the landing zone for hard, soft, and taxiing scenarios.
However, sharing your FilmDoctor analysis to colleagues meant manually exporting data sections, images, or entire project files—time-consuming and fragmented, with no one-click option for a complete report for each module used.
We’ve integrated Typst [1] – a fast, open-source LaTeX alternative – to generate professional, presentation-ready PDF reports instantly. One button exports all data, images, and analysis summaries for select modules, making it effortless to extract insights, share with teams and project partners, and archive.
See attached example reports for OPfC® and FilmDoctor® modules, based on our jet runway landing scenario—complete with input data and stress field visuals.
We’re rolling this out to more modules soon.
Contact us today for your free software update (while available in your update period) or to check compatibility with older versions. Let’s streamline your workflow!
If you have any questions concerning the theory, please contact Norbert Schwarzer directly via email: n.schwarzer@siomec.de
If you have any questions concerning the software and animation, please contact Nick Bierwisch: n.bierwisch@siomec.de
For all other concerns (software, offers, development, investor requests) address Peggy Heuer-Schwarzer: p.heuer@siomec.de or Troy vom Braucke: troy@gpplasma.com
References
[1] Typst (http://www.typst.app) an open source Latex alternative which offers us new ways to create reports, summaries and so on. It was developed in Berlin, Germany and is written in Rust which makes it extremely fast and more flexible than creating document with Latex. Our software collects the needed data, creates the images and prepares the document. In the following step that document is compiled with Typst (mostly in under 1 second) and the final PDF document is created.
