SPRING_SYMBOLS... Menu: Setting the Drawing Style for Springs and Dampers
SPRING_SYMBOLS... menu: Setting the drawing style for springs and dampers
| By default springs use "zig-zags" |
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| and damper elements use "dashpots" |
You can change these to
style,
in which they are drawn as simple lines. This saves vectors, reduces clutter,
and can be useful during animation to improve speed and economise on memory
usage. See
SPH Symbols Managing SPH Element Display
for details of how grounded
and zero length elements are drawn
By default springs will be drawn using the line thickness set in the Utilities Graphics menu. To highlight springs the default thickness can be set to a value in the range 1>10 pixels. This thickness will also be used when contouring spring forces.
If a model contains coincident springs with the same node numbering then the colour of the 1st spring that is drawn (the lowest ID) will be the one seen in the contour plot.
If a spring translational data component is selected then any rotational springs will be drawn uncontoured in grey. If the component is a rotational component then any translational springs will be drawn uncontoured in grey..
