Post Command

Function

The Post Command toolbar in midas GTS controls display methods of result plot.

<Post Style Toolbar>
 

The Post Data toolbar includes the following menus and icons..

Visualization

It provides various methods of displaying Contour Plot.

Original

It displays a general contour plot.
 

Iso-Surface

Iso-surface Plot displays surfaces, which represent the results of equal magnitudes.
Detail options such as defining Iso-Surface values can be specified in Iso-Surface in the Property Window.
 

Slice Plane

Slice Plane displays results at sections specified by the user.
Detail options such as location of cutting planes can be specified in Slice Plane in the Property Window.
 

Clipping Plane

Clipping Plane displays results of one side from a plane specified by the user.
Detail options such as location of cutting planes can be specified in Clipping Plane in the Property Window.
 

Mirror Mode

It display result contour after it mirrors the contour by a plane specified by the user.
Detail options such as defining a mirror plane can be specified in Misc in the Property Window.

Contour Type

Band

It shows distinct band color display in contour.
 

Gradient

It smooths out edges of band for gradient display.
 

Edge Type

Determine mesh edge line displaying method.

No Edge

Hide all mesh edges.
 

Mesh Edge

Show all mesh edges.
Detail options such as thickness of edge line can be specified in Contour in the Property Window.
 

Feature Edge

Show only feature edges which represent distinctive lines (determined by the angle between the two connecting free faces.) Refer to Graphic Display for more information about Feature Edge.
Detail options such as Feature Angle and line thickness can be specified in Misc. in the Property Window.

 

Status Switch

Legend

Determine whether or not to display Legend.
Detail options such as its colors can be specified in Legend in the Property Window.

Most of Legend controls (color, band range, etc) can be performed by mouse operation at the Legend.
 

<Legend Control Example>

Result Value

Determine whether or not to display result value.
Detail options such as its color and size can be specified in Values in the Property Window.
 

Nodal Average

Determine whether or not to plot element results such as stress with nodal average value.
Detail options can be specified in Average Node in the Property Window.  
 

Animation

It creates animation of current result display.
Animation functions are provided in the Animation Toolbar located at the bottom of the Work Window.
 

<Animation Toolbar>
 

Multi Step Animation

Click button to create an animation which contains multi/step results. User can specify steps for the animation in the Multi Step Animation dialog box which appears by clicking button. In addition, it provides Min/Max value range to be applied in the animation.
 

Initial View

It removes the analysis result output and returns back to the analysis model.
 

Initial Post Style

It initializes the current post style to the default setting.
 

Figure

It enables to save both the current Post Style and result data in the Post-Works Tree. The saved figure can be recalled at any time when user wants to view.
 

Table

It outputs the currently displayed result to a table.