FREEZE_COORDINATES Displaying Results On Fixed Geometry

This option can be applied separately to each combination of Model and Window.  If the currently active Windows contain multiple Models then the Select Model dropdown can be used to select the model that you want to change the settings for.  If the selected model is in more than one of the currently active windows then any settings you change are applied to all the active windows the model is in.

This option is similar to using MAGNIFY_DISPLACEMENTS with the magnification set to 0.0 to display results on a fixed geometry but unlike MAGNIFY_DISPLACEMENTS this option can be used to fix the geometry at any state within the analysis.

Any changes take effect the next time you update the plot, and stay in effect until changed again.

The state used by this option can be set by either the state slider, entering a state number or by entering a time value.  When a time is entered the state nearest to the specified time is selected.

Set Current can be used to set the Freeze State for each model/window combination to the state that is currently being displayed in the window.

By default element deletion from the Freeze State is used when display the results from other states on the Freeze State geometry.  This option can be turned off so that the element deletion from the state the results are from is used but this can lead to plots where elements are heavily distorted where nodes have moved large amounts where they have become free when the elements attached to them have been deleted.