Visualization of the shell Local Axes

The first important checking that must be done is to see if the local axes for every shell element are equal to the ones supposed when assigning the properties. Choose:

            View results -> Local axes

Local X' axe is drawn in color blue, Y' axe in red and Z' axe in green.

If they are different than supposed, go to the preprocessing part, change the properties accordingly and calculate again.

Note: It is possible to enter a different factor to change the display size of the axes. Just enter the new factor in the command line and press Enter. Check Window->View Results -> Display Vectors -> Local axes for different visualization styles. Check also option Windows->View style -> Boundary.