Review and Plot a System
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From the Systems Review - Element/Material/Ply dialog, select a system type
from the drop-down menu.
Option Description Elemental Select to review the orientations of the following element systems: - 1D elements, shells, and solids
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- 1D Bars, Beams, Rods, etc. are supported for OptiStruct and Nastran solvers. See the HyperView Solver Interfacing topic for information regarding all of the supported element types.
Known Limitations:- The location of the 1D systems on HyperMesh and HyperView may be different, depending on the end/offset conditions, however the orientations should match. HyperView draws systems at the centroid of the 1D element.
- 2D and 3D
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- Penta6 in HyperView and OptiStruct are different from Nastran.
Material Select to review the orientations of various material systems. - Material
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- Plot composite stress/strain in Elemental, Material, Global, or User-defined systems.
- Overlay tensor plots (composite stress/strain) with material direction plot.
- Material systems are available as resolved in systems in Contour/Iso/Tensor panels for the data types supported.
Known Limitations:- For plotting data types that do not have relevance to the Material system (for example, Stress with Z1 and a Z2 data type), it is not advised that you apply the Resolved-in system of Material, because this can result in incorrect transformations.
- Composite stress is required as a data type in order to view ply layers in the dialog.
- See the HyperView Solver Interfacing topic for information regarding all of the supported solver and element types.
Ply Select to review the orientations of various ply systems. - Ply
- Ply systems are available as resolved in systems in Contour/Iso/Tensor panels for the data types supported.
Known Limitations:- For plotting data types that do not have relevance to the Ply system (for example, Stress with Z1 and a Z2 data type), it is not advised that you apply the Resolved-in system of Ply, because this can result in incorrect transformations.
- Composite stress is required as a data type in order to view ply layers in the dialog.
- See HyperView Solver Interfacing for information regarding all of the supported solver and element types.
Tip: You can also use the arrow up/down buttons to conveniently step through the other available system types. -
The current layer selected for view is displayed; however you can use the
drop-down menu to make another selection from the list.
Tip: You can also use the arrow up/down buttons to conveniently step through the other available layers/plies.Note: This option is only applicable for Ply systems (it will be disabled/grayed out for all Elemental and Material systems).
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Before plotting and reviewing a system, you may pick one or more elements or
components from the model.
- Click the input collector (Elements or Components) and select By ID.
- Pick entities directly from the model in the modeling window.
Tip: You can also use the quick window selection method for picking entities in the modeling windowIf no selection is made, the plot will be applied to displayed elements by default. - Click Plot to apply and plot the various options for the selected system.