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.
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- Nodes: A window appears showing information about selected nodes: coordinates, which elements uses this node, the current visualized result, and all other nodal results defined over the selected nodes.
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- Elements: A window appears showing information about selected elements: connectivity, the gauss points defined on the selected elements, the current visualized result, and all other results defined over the gauss points of the selected elements. For spheres, their raius are also shown, and for circles, their radius and nomral.
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All this information can be sent to the active report (see Report ) by using the
button.
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The Copy tool introduces some changes:
Menu: Utilities->Copy...
Toolbar:
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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.
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The types of transformation are:
The other available options are:
- Show/Hide Transform.: Allows you to see either the original model or the one with the transformations active.
- Undo: Deletes the last transformation performed. It can be used repeadly to clear all transformations.
- Clear: Clears all the transformations in one go.
- Crete volume/surfce: creates N-copies of the current meshes.
- Extrude surface: creates a volume using the selected transformation by extruding the surfaces.
The DoIt button tells the program to perform the transformation that has been selected.