Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide

Affected Description/Example

Driver

Environment Vari-

able

Disables double buffering. Applies to HP and SGI 12-bit

plane systems only.

ANS_SNGLBUF 3-D

10.3. Specifying the Graphics Display Device Type (for Windows)

For Windows users, ANSYS supports these drivers and capabilities:

• A window device


• Hot keyboard/mouse


• Two- or three-button mouse


• Hidden line removal


• Light source shading

Note

On a two-button mouse, the shift-right button functions like the middle button of a three-

button mouse.

If you are running the program on Windows platforms, you have three alternatives for specifying the
graphics device type:

• Double-click on the Interactive icon in the ANSYS Program Folder. Click on the down arrow next to
  Graphics device name and choose the appropriate device.


• Within the ANSYS program, issue the ANSYS /SHOW command (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Device
  Options).


• Include the device type on the ANSYS execution command line. The command option -d or -D must
  precede the device type, as shown below:
  ansys150 -d device_type

The device type is one of the following:

• WIN32


• WIN32c


• 3D

We recommend using a color setting higher than 256 colors.

Specifying an invalid device type causes ANSYS to divert the graphics to a disk file and inhibits the
opening of the ANSYS menu system, even if you included the -g option on the ANSYS execution com-
mand.

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