This panel controls the plotting of principal stress and strain vector
plots.
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LENGTH/WIDTH
: Setting vector length.
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By default vector symbols are scaled by the data magnitude.
LENGTH
sets the maximum symbol length in model space units. To make it
easier to see the vector symbols on some displays, the WIDTH
of the lines used to draw the symbols can be increased. By default
a line thickness of 1 pixel is used.
The
FIXED
option can be used to
make all the vector symbols the same size regardless of the data
magnitude. If this option is set then the colour of the vector symbols
still represents the data magnitude.
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COLOUR
: Setting vector colour
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By default vectors are coloured using "contour" bands based on
their data magnitude. This is the
DATA
option.
You can choose instead to use colour to distinguish between the
components of multi-valued plots, the
FIXED
option.
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SYMBOL
: Vector symbol types
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By default the vector symbols have a
HIER
archy:
arrowhead for largest, inverted arrowhead for smallest, plain bar
for middle.
You can choose to have plain
LINES
instead if you wish.
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Vel, LC, Crit Fill Options
These options controls the appearance of element in the plotting modes where
data vectors are imposed on top of "structure". For more information
see
Vel, LC, Crit fill options