Graphs

Menu: View results->Graphs

From this menu several graphs types can be selected and deleted.

Graphs are supported for results defined over nodes.

Menu

Window --> View graphs...

From this menu the graphs window will pop up from where graphs can be created, customized and deleted.

Graph Lines description

Here you can draw graphs in order to take a closer look at the results. Several graph types are available: point evolution against time, result 1 vs. result 2 over points, and result along a boundary line. You can also save or read a graph (see Files menu ). The format of the file will be described later (see Graph Lines File Format ).

In the View Results -> Graphs pull-down menu, there are the following options:

You can view labels for the points of a graph. These labels include not only the graph point's number, but also its X and Y values. If some points on the graph are labeled, when returning to the normal results view, the labels also appear in the results view.

Graph Lines options

Menu: Options->Graphs

Graph Lines File Format

The graph file that GiD uses is a standard ASCII file.

Every line of the file is a point on the graph with X and Y coordinates separated by a space.

Comment lines are also allowed and should begin with a '#'.

The title of the graph and the labels for the X and Y axes can also be configured.

If a comment line contains the Keyword 'Graph:' the string between quotes that follows this keyword will be used as the title of the graph. The string between quotes that follows the keywords 'X:' and 'Y:' will be used as labels for the X- and Y-axes respectively. The same is true for the Y axis, but with the Keyword 'Y:'.

Example:

# Graph: "Nodes 26, 27, 28, ... 52 Graph."

#

# X: "Szz-Nodal_Streess" Y: "Sxz-Nodal_Stress"

-3055.444 1672.365

-2837.013 5892.115

-2371.195 666.9543

-2030.643 3390.457

-1588.883 -4042.649

-1011.5 1236.958

# End

View graphs window

From this window diferents kinds of graphs can be created. The colour, line style, names of these graphs can be also changed from this windows. A grid can be drawn as reference, and several other options can be personalized.

Graphs window: the Create panel

From this panel, following options are present:

Graphs window: the General Options panel

Several options regarding the view of the displayed graphs can be personalized

Graphs window: the Graph Management panel

Several options related to individual graphs can be personalized, and deleted.