Menu:
View results->Iso Surfaces
Here a surface is drawn that ties a fixed value inside a volume mesh; for surface meshes a line is drawn. To create isosurfaces there are several options:
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Exact:
After choosing a result or a result component of the current analysis and step, you can input several fixed values and then for each given value an isosurface is drawn.
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Automatic:
Similarly, after choosing a result or a result component, you are asked for the number of isosurfaces to be created. GiD calculates the values between the Minimum and the Maximum (these are not included).
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Automatic Width:
After choosing a result or result component, you are asked for a width. This width is used to create as many isosurfaces as are needed between the Minimum and Maximum defined values (these are included).
Iso surfaces are supported for results defined over nodes or gauss points.
Iso lines are created for triangles and quadrilaterals when the isosurface visualization is selected.
Several configuration options can be accessed via the Options
menu.
Menu:
Options->Iso Surfaces
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Display Style:
For isosurfaces there is also a Display Style option, like for Volumes/Surfaces/Cuts. The available options are: All Lines, Hidden Lines, Body, Body Lines (see Display Style
).
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Transparency:
The isosurfaces can be set to Transparent or Opaque (see Display Style
).
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Color Mode:
allows the user to define the colours used to paint the iso surfaces:
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Monochrome:
all the isosurfaces are drawn with the same colour, which can be adjusted with 'Change colour'.
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Result colour:
each isosurface is drawn with a colour indicating its value, the correspondence of which can be seen in the legend.
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Contour Fill colour:
the isosurfaces are drawn with the colour scale of the current contour fill, i.e., the current contour fill is also drawn over the isosurfaces. If no contour fill is displayed, then the monochrome colour is used.
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Change colour:
allows to define the dolour of the monochrome isosurfaces
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Convert to cuts:
Another interesting option is Convert To Cuts. With this options all the isosurfaces drawn will be turned into cuts, so that they can be saved, read, and have results drawn over them.
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Draw always:
with this option the isosurfaces will be drawn although the mesh is switched off.
These options also are used for isolines.