Driver Contour Display
You can display more than nine contours, but the number of contours
displayed will be rounded down to the next lowest multiple of nine. ForThe X11 driver (screen dis-
play) and raster mode
example, if you specify 20 contours, the program displays only 18 contours.
In addition, if you specify more than nine contours, contour colors will not
be unique (that is, you might have two or more adjacent contour lines
with the same color).
If eight graphic planes are available, you can specify any number of con-
tours, up to 128. If your display device does not support eight graphicThe X11C driver (screen dis-
play) in either vector or ras-
ter mode planes, you are limited to displaying nine contours. If another process has
used some of the colors, making fewer than eight graphic planes available,
you cannot display more than nine contours. ( To verify how many graphic
planes are available, issue the /PSTATUS command after a plot command.)
To make more graphic planes available, you must exit from the ANSYS
program, re-enter, and then issue the /SHOW,X11C-FORC to force selection
of the full set of eight graphic planes.
Nine contours are the maximum, unless you specify the contour range
(using VMIN and VMAX in the /CONTOUR command), or unless you expli-
citly set NCPL to 8 on the /SHOW command).Plotting to an ANSYS neut-
ral graphics fileNoteIf the current ANSYS graphics are not displayed as Multi-Plots (Utility Menu> Plot> Multi-
Plots), then the following is true:If the current device is a 3-D device [/SHOW,3D], the model contours in all active windows will be the
same, even if separat e /CONTOUR commands are issued for each active window.
For efficiency, ANSYS 3-D graphics logic maintains a single data structure (segment), which contains
precisely one set of contours. The program displays the same segment in all windows. The view settings
of each window constitute the only differences in the contour plots in the active windows.
14.4. Q-Slice Techniques
Q-slicing is a technique you can use to query the interior or your model via slice planes. T o implement
Q-slicing, change the hidden surface type to Q-slice using either of these methods:
Command(s):/TYPE,1,8
GUI: Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Style> Hidden-Line Options
By default, the slice plane is perpendicular to the view and is positioned at the focus point. You can
set the slice plane via the GUI path shown above or by using the /CPLANE,1 command.
To position the working plane, you can use either of these methods:
- Choose Utility Menu> WorkPlane> Align WP with> Keypoints.
- Click on the dynamic mode button in the Offset WP menu. T o access this menu, choose Utility Menu>
WorkPlane> Offset WP by Increments.
You can animate Q-slices. To do so, choose either of these GUI paths:
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