setenv OPENWINHOME path/openwin
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/syslib/sun64:/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/lib/sun64:/usr/libNoteYou must enter the setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH definition on a continuous line without a
carriage return.10.5. Creating Graphics Displays
You can create many types of graphics displays: geometry displays (nodes, elements, keypoints, etc.),
results displays (temperature or stress contours, etc.), and graphs (stress-strain curves, time-history dis-
plays, etc.). Creating any display is a two-step process:
- You use graphics specification functions to establish specifications (such as the viewing direction,
number and color controls, etc.) for your display. - You use graphics action functions to actually produce the display.
You can perform both types of graphics functions either by using menu functions in the GUI or by
typing in commands directly.
10.5.1. GUI-Driven Graphics Functions
When running the ANSYS program interactively, most users will prefer to use the GUI. As you use the
GUI functions, you execute commands without actually seeing or editing them. (The program will record
all underlying executed commands in your Jobname.LOG file.) You can access graphics specification
functions via Utility Menu> PlotCtrls. Graphics action functions reside under Utility Menu> Plot.
10.5.2. Command-Driven Graphics Functions
As an alternative to using the GUI functions, you can type ANSYS commands directly in the Input Window.
In general, you enter the graphics specifications using the graphics "slash" commands (for example,
/WINDOW,/PNUM, etc.). Graphics action commands are usually either prefixed with PL (PLNSOL,
PLVAR, etc.) or are suffixed with PLOT (EPLOT,KPLOT, etc.).
10.5.3. Immediate Mode Graphics
By default in the GUI, your model will immediately be displayed in the Graphics Window as you create
new entities (such as areas, keypoints, nodes, elements, local coordinate systems, boundary conditions,
etc.). This is called immediate mode graphics. Anything drawn immediately in this way, however, will
be destroyed if you bring up a menu or dialog box on top of it. Or, if you iconify the GUI, the immediate
mode graphics image will not be shown when you restore the GUI icon.
An immediate image will also be automatically scaled to fit nicely within the Graphics Window - a feature
called automatic scaling. Periodically, though, you may need to issue an explicit plot function because
you have created new entities which lie "outside" the boundaries of the scaled image already in the
Graphics Window and are thus not captured with immediate mode graphics. The plot function will
rescale and redraw the image.
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