Managing post view legends

When you display post-processing results in post views, the software automatically creates a legend. The legend consists of information about the results and a color bar for contour plots.

Legend and color bar for a contour plot	Legend for a mesh-based plot

When you overlay contour plots, the software creates a legend for each overlay to enhance the understanding of the results. For example, when you overlay an isoline plot of stress on an isosurface display of displacements on an undeformed model, the software displays a separate legend for each plot. Each legend has its own legend text, and you can set the options for the amount of information displayed.

Legend text

By default, the software generates legend text based on the information extracted from the Post Processing Navigator, such as the current Simulation, solution, step or load case, result and result component, minimum and maximum values, units, coordinate system, and deformation used. You can set its format, color, and scale factor.

You can also customize the legend text to be more meaningful to your audience, for example, to include project or product information, or to conform to your company’s policies and standards using the Custom Header dialog box available from the Legend dialog box or the Legend tab of the Post View dialog box.

You can:

• Select pre-defined information or include your own. You can choose from a list of pre-defined text, such as result minimum and maximum or shell section, or enter your own.

• Add or remove lines of text.

• Set preferences. You can use the Post Processing Preferences command to set legend header preferences so they are saved across sessions.

Color bars

The software can automatically generate the color bar or you can customize it. If you let the software automatically generate it, you can specify the minimum, maximum, and threshold values for the color bar, and control the number of colors and the spectrum used. This is useful for highlighting areas of interest and hiding noise in the data. You can set how the color bar automatically scales the colors across the range of values using the Spacing option in the Legend dialog box or the Legend tab of the Post View dialog box. The options are:

• Equally SpacedSelect to equally space the colors across a specified number of levels.

• Round OffSpecify a minimum number of levels across which the software scales the colors and then rounds the values. The increment values are rounded to numbers that are powers of 1, 2, 5, or powers of 10 times those numbers. The software uses the largest rounded interval number that still fulfills the Minimum Number of Levels specified.

• Level IncrementSpecify the number of levels and the range of values per level across which the software scales the colors.

If you customize it, you can modify the range of values and replace colors.

Legend placement

The software places the first legend on the left or as set in your preferences using the Post Processing Preferences command. Each additional legend appears to the right of the first legend. You can also interactively change their placement.

Drawing boxes around the legend

You can create boxes around the legend text and the color bar to better differentiate them from the background and make them easier to view, especially when the results are zoomed in. You can also set the background color and translucency of the boxes. The border color is the same color as the legend font color.

Editing legends

You can edit a legend, such as delete it, increase and decrease its scale, and hide it. You use the Legend dialog box or the Legend tab of the Post View dialog box to edit the legend.

You can also right-click a legend in a post view to access commands to edit the legend. The commands are shortcuts to the options available in the Legend dialog box or tab. The right-click commands offer more limited choices. For example, the Legend Extremes command only provides two ways to set the legend extreme.

Where do I find it?

Managing legends using the Edit Post View command

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisites	A Simulation file as the work part and the displayed partResults loaded in a post view
Command Finder	Edit Post View
Location in dialog box	Post View dialog box→Legend tab

Setting preferences for legends using the Post Processing Preferences command

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation file as the work part and the displayed part
Command Finder	Post Processing Preferences
Location in dialog box	Legend

How do I

Edit post view legends

Manage post view legends

Display post view legends

Set preferences for post view legends

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