Shell Plot Item
Description
Show the locations of shell elements as lines. The first few attributes of this plot item are contingent on the first attribute (Color By).
Attributes
Color By
Set either a “label” or a “contour” to be colored on the plot item.
Label/Value
Specify which label or value (as determined by the previous setting) to display in the plot item. The options for both are shown on the following table. Some options will require additional, dynamically-provided attributes in order to complete the selection; these are indicated with notations on the table.
Label | Valueᴰ |
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Applied Pressure | Accelerationᶜ |
Attach Conditionᵈ | Applied Pressure |
Collection ID | Convergence |
Density | Coupling Pore Pressure |
Extra of Elementᵉ | Coupling Shear Stress |
Extra of Nodeᵉ | Disp (Rel) of Link |
Group of Elementˢ | Displacement of Nodeᶜ |
Group of Nodeˢ | Effective Coupling Normal Stress |
Material Type | Extra of Elementᵉ |
Propertyᵖ | Extra of Nodeᵉ |
Target of Link | Force of Link |
Thickness | Gap 1 |
Type | Gap 2 |
Uniform | Maximum Fiber Stress |
Yield State of Linkᵈ | Maximum Membrane Stress |
Maximum Moment | |
Minimum Fiber Stress | |
Minimum Membrane Stress | |
Minimum Moment | |
Ratio Local | |
Ratio Target | |
Resultantsʳ | |
Stressʸ | |
Total Couplings Normal Stress | |
Velocityᶜ |
Key: |
ᶜA “Component” attribute follows |
ᵉAn “Index” attribute follows |
ᵈA “DOF” (degree of freedom) attribute follows |
ᵖA “Property” attribute follows |
ʳA “Resultants” (and other) attributes follows |
ˢA “Slot” attribute follows |
ʸA “Quantity” (and other) attributes follow |
ᴰAll “Value” attributes supply a “DOF” attribute |
Color-List/Contour
The attribute appearing in this position is either a Color-List or a Contour, depending on the “Color By” selection. Refer to the standard color-list control description and the standard contour control description for details.
Polygons
Set properties of item facets. See the standard polygons control description for details.
Selected Only
Set which elements are shown.
Selected Only: Specify (checked) that only selected plot item elements should be rendered.
Shrink
Reduce rendering size.
Shrink: Reduce rendering size, to allow gaps between individual elements to be visible. Value must be between .1 and 1 (1 = no shrinking).
Marker
Control rendering of the markers denoting element position.
Marker: Select an option from the choices “None”, “Node”, or “Link”. Also a container for additional properties, based on the selection made here. A standard color attribute and scale attribute are provided when “Node” or “Link” are selected. The “Link” option also includes a standard line attribute.
System
Set rendering of axes used to indicate local coordinate systems.
System: Select the coordinate system that is to be indicated by the axes, from the choices “None”, “Material”, Node”, “Element”, or “Surface”.
Additional controls provided after the initial selection is made will correspond to the controls available with the Axes plot item. See that topic for further details.
Map
Map the item to new model coordinates. See the standard map control description for details.
Def-fac
Set the deformation factor. See the standard def-fac control description for details.
Transparency
Set the transparency of the plot item. See the standard transparency control description for details.
Legend
Set item labeling in the plot legend. See the standard legend control description for details.
Beneath Title, the Shell plot item also provides controls in Legend for Shrink, Color-List, Map, Def-Fac, and Count.
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