VEL

VEL

A velocity plot draws arrows showing the direction and magnitude of nodal velocities.

As plotting nodal velocities is something that is very commonly used the VEL button ignores the currently selected data component and temporarily swaps the component to velocity vector.

The popup menu attached to the VEL button can be used to easily swap the data component to either Displacement or Acceleration.

The arrow length is proportional to velocity magnitude, and arrow colour is also based on magnitude using the normal contour band colours and bands. Both of these attributes can be modified if required - for more details see Vec Plots

Like LC and PR plots VEL ocity plots are drawn on a hidden-line mesh by default. However mixed-mode plotting means that the underlying mesh may be rendered in shaded and/or wireframe modes - see the PROPS box in Properties: Controlling Colour, Drawing Style, Transparency, Lighting Attributes and Overlay of Entities .