How Labelling on Plots is Handled for Nodes and Elements
How Labelling on Plots is Handled for Nodes and Elements
The default label is a node or element number, but a variable amount of information can be generated to form a "label" which can run to multiple lines, as this example shows:
This figure shows an example of shells which have been labelled with:
| MODEL | Mnnn | for Model number <nnn> |
| LABEL | Snnn | for Shell <nnn>. |
| PART | Pnnn | for Part <nnn>. |
| MATERIAL | MATnnn | for MATerial <nnn> |
PRIMER attempts to group labels logically and to locate them so that they don't overlap, but if you try to add too much information you will end up with a total mess on the page. This example, with four categories of data labelled on elements, is the sensible maximum; and even it starts to get messy when label numbers get large (> 5 digits).
Labelling uses the standard acronyms for entities, these are listed in Appendix A.
The "attached" nodes in this figure have also been switched on: these are drawn as asterisks (*) at the relevant element vertices.