Controlling the visibility of results

You can control the visibility of results by displaying results only for selected assembly FEMs, component FEMs, mesh collectors, meshes, or groups of elements, as well as selection recipes that contain finite element entities such as nodes or elements. This is useful if you have a very large model and want to view results for a small portion of the model, or to highlight areas of interest. To control the visibility of these items, you can use the visibility check boxes in the Post Processing Navigator. You can also use the display commands in the Results tab: Show, Show Only, Hide, and Hide Mesh.

Controlling the visibility using the Post Processing Navigator

	Expand the post view node and set the visibility check boxes to control the visibility of entities.

Note:

When viewing a streamlines display, the entire streamline is always displayed, regardless of which meshes or element groups are displayed.

Accessing group and mesh data for imported solution results

If you have imported results into your solution, you can enable the selection of groups and meshes to control visibility in your post view.

In the Simulation Navigator, right-click the imported results solution and choose Edit. In the Solution dialog box, select Pre-Processing Groups and Meshes are Valid in Post.

Note:

For best results, the imported solution results and the loaded CAE model should share the same node and element labels and mesh topology.

For more information, see Importing results.

Controlling color bar resolution on partial displays

When displaying only portions of your model, you can control how the results for the displayed portion are mapped to the color bar. You control the resolution by selecting Result or Displayed from the Legend Extremes list on the Legend tab of the Post View dialog box.

When you select Result, the range of the color bar encompasses the model's full range of values for a given result. This display can provide information about the amount of variation in the result relative to the entire model.

When you select Displayed, the range of the color bar extends only to the minimum and maximum values in the displayed portions of the model. This enables you to visualize results on portions of your model with higher resolution.

Example: Meshes, groups, and color bar scaling

The following figure shows a multiple viewport display of stress results from a Response Dynamics drop-test analysis on model representing a consumer electronics product.

• Viewport 1 shows the complete model with the color bar resolution set to Result.

• Viewport 2 shows just the mesh representing the circuit board. The color bar resolution is set to Displayed, and you can see that there are higher stresses in the circled area, which represents a boss.

• The elements representing the boss have been saved to a group, displayed in viewport 3. The color bar scale is set to Result, so you see very little variation in the colors displayed.

• In viewport 4, the color bar resolution has been changed to Displayed, so you can see the distribution of stresses throughout the boss at a much higher resolution.

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation file as the work part and displayed partResults loaded
Command Finder	Show All Hide Show Only Hide Mesh

How do I

Control the visibility of elements and nodes

Control the display of meshes in post views

Control the display of assembly FEMs in post views

Set the display of edges in post views

Set the display of faces in a post view to a single color

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