Generate contour plots of boundary conditions

1. Add one or more loads, constraints, or solver-specific simulation objects to your solution.

2. In the Simulation Navigator, right-click the solution and select Plot Boundary Condition Contours.In the Boundary Condition Contour Plot dialog box, the available boundary conditions appear in the Selected Boundary Conditions list.

3. Right-click a boundary condition that you want to plot and select Add to Selected Boundary Conditions, or double-click the boundary condition.The boundary condition is added to the Selected Boundary Conditions list. The software uses this first boundary condition as the seed item to determine which additional boundary conditions are compatible to be plotted. Incompatible boundary conditions are listed in red.

4. Continue adding additional boundary conditions to the Selected Boundary Conditions list as needed.Any additional boundary condition that you add must be of the same type as the seed item. For example, if the seed item is a pressure, the additional boundary condition must be a pressure.

5. If you select a boundary condition that is made up of components, you can choose the component to plot. Under the Selected Boundary Conditions group, in the Property column, right-click the currently displayed component and select the component to plot from the list.

6. If you select multiple nodal boundary conditions that are distributed to the same FE entities (nodes, elements, element edges, or element faces), from the Overlap Options list, select the method to determine which values are plotted.

7. You can evaluate the boundary condition at a specific point in the solution, overriding an evaluation point that might be defined in the solution or active subcase. In the Evaluation Points group, the magnitude properties of the plotted boundary condition appear. If the property is unavailable and has a Solution Defined button, that property has an evaluation point defined in the solution, and that point is listed. To override the solution-defined property, click the Solution Defined and then choose User Defined . The property becomes active and you can enter a value.

8. Click Plot to generate the contour plot. You can use the post-processing commands on the Results tab to view and interrogate your loading conditions. For example, you can: Use Edit Post View to modify the loading display.Use Identify Results to probe loading values at nodes and write them to a spreadsheet or comma-separated-value (CSV) file.

9. To return to the model view, click Return to Model .

Animating a boundary condition contour plot

For a boundary condition that varies with a quantity such as time or frequency, you can animate the contour display.

1. Add a boundary condition to the Selected Boundary Conditions list as described in the previous steps.

2. From the Plot Type list, choose Animation.

3. If you plotted multiple boundary conditions together that have different independent variables (such as time and frequency), from the Independent Variable list, choose the independent variable to define the range of the animation.

4. (Optional) In the Start and Stop boxes, enter the range of the animation.Typically, the active solution and step determine the initial Start, Stop, and Number of Frames values. For example, in a Direct Transient Response solution, if you have 50 time steps in the subcase, the Stop time for the animation defaults to 50 and the Number of Frames defaults to 51. You can override the range of the animation by entering new values in the Start and Stop boxes.

5. (Optional) In the Number of Frames box, enter the number of animation frames. The more frames, the smoother the animation.

6. Click Plot to generate the contour plot.

7. Click Play to start the animation.You can pause the animation, and you can step through the paused animation frame by frame. If you click Close to close the dialog box, the animation continues to play. You can use the Animation post command to control the animation. For more information, see Animating post views.

8. To return to the model view, click Return to Model .

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