Utilities menu

Menu: Utilities

Inside the Utilities menu, the options Id, Signal, Distance and Calculator have the same functionality as in preprocessing mode (see UTILITIES ). Other options in the Utilities menu are slightly different.

Status window

List nodes window

List elements window

All this information can be sent to the active report (see Report ) by using the
button.

The Copy tool introduces some changes:

Menu: Utilities->Copy...

Toolbar:

Copy/Transform

When you select the Copy tool, the Transformations window appears. This window allows you to repeat the visualization using translation, rotation and mirror transformations, so that GiD can draw a whole model when only a part of it was analyzed.

Transformation: view option

Transformation: create option

The types of transformation are:

The other available options are:

The DoIt button tells the program to perform the transformation that has been selected.