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Have you ever seen a wireframe with simulated data? Justinmind Prototyper allows the creation of much more than simple, static wireframes. You can have fully functional prototypes, with events and action as astonishing as search, behaviour changes and commenting systems.

It’s not just drawing a form. You can fill in data, and even create a login screen.

You can use widgets to create common web elements such as data inputs, buttons and such. But using datamasters, you can link these inputs to a table, where all the data is stored. So, if you want to import real information from a .csv file or type inside the program, don’t worry. Besides, changes done in the files can be exported to any other editor. Things you can simulate quite easily and you couldn’t with just a simple mockup:

filling a form searching for a product filtering data, such as bank account movements pagination of content such as posts, items in a store, etc Personalization of objects (showing things only to logged users, calling the user by his name, etc). And many other uses.

Tutorial: Creating a comment form wireframe using real data

Edit a social network’s profile just as if it was coded

What kind of changes can the users make in a prototype?

Insert data. Users can fill fields and submit this data to the datamaster, that acts like a database. For example, a sign up form can be filled and stored in your datamaster and then exported.

Modify data. Users can change a previously filled field (changing a password, for example, or editing a comment).

Delete data. Erase unwanted information with a command, just as if you were manipulating your database. All of these data manipulation commands are easy and can be configured via drag and drop.

What kind of data I can’t still use in Justinmind Prototyper

Of course, being a prototyping tool, you can’t have all the functionalities of a real website. Yet. For the moment, datamasters and datagrids only handle text and numbers. You can’t create a database of images, but you can still simulate by placing dummy images on your datagrid. Normal data, such as text areas and text lines, numbers, dates, emails, urls, percentages and money can be used normally.

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————One of the main reasons DTU management is considering to purchase a new Rapid Prototyping solution, is the fact that the Z 310plus printer sets a series of limitations when fabricating prototype objects.

Z 310plus manufactures parts using gypsum like, composite material which contains an acceptable quality when designing a fixed and non functional concept model.
Consequently the property of the mentioned material makes the fabricated parts fragile and not durable enough for creating a functional object where different parts are interacting.

In order to illustrate this remark and compare the quality of the demo object, manufactured by the elected RP printers, a suitable and functional demo object designed using Pro/E.

Design idea for this object is inspired by a mechanism used in fishing reels. This mechanism allows the spool to move up and down in order to collect the fishing line while the handle is spinning only in one direction by the fisherman.
The idea is to create a double threaded screw and nut with a support construction to keep the parts in their places.

We chose to create a trapezoidal thread and use the DIN 103 standard with bolt diameter of 14mm and pitch equal to P= 4 which is shown n the table below.———–

The requirements editor

The requirements editor is composed of four main parts or functional groups: the search box, the actions toolbar, the requirements list and the requirement details. The default view of the requirements editor contains a list of all the requirements of the wireframe. The list display the properties code, version, name, type, author, last modification date and related component. If a requirement has more than one version, only the last is displayed.

Bind text requirements to wireframe elements

You can find a requeriments pane below the canvas of the “User Interface” section. This pane provides the tools to bind requirements to wireframe elements. In order to bind a requirement to a wireframe element you can use one of the following methods:

Create a requirement and drag and drop the requirement to the wireframe element. Select the wireframe element and then create the new requirement.

Advanced features of text requirements

Requirement versions.Existing requirement versions can not and must not be modified. Thus, any changes to a requirement lead to a new version being created. Once you have made some changes to the properties of a requirement, you must click the “New Version” button to save these changes as a new version in the current requirement. Changes can not be saved in the current version. To use an old requirement version as active version, select it in the list and click “Activate” in the requirement details zone.

Display a wireframe element from a requirement.Click on the “View Element” button to jump to the related element of the particular requirement, opening the pertinent editor and displaying the element.

Specifications document generation

Justinmind Prototyper generates Microsoft Word documents containing relevant information about the wireframe. Moreover, one may easily create a template in Microsoft Word to fully customize and adapt the documents outputted by the Justinmind Prototyper.