How to Specify Model Presentations

The Superview IV Results environment (Figure 1) includes a default left-hand tree view and many right-click functions. In this results environment, you can specify model presentations consisting of result types, legend box settings and annotations.

Figure 1: The Superview IV Results environment.

Viewing Different Result Types

Different results options are available for different analysis types. For instance, options in the "Results" drop-down menu for linear static stress analysis include various types of displacement, stress and strain contours, while options for heat transfer analysis include temperature and various types of heat flux contours (Figure 2). The "Results" drop-down menu in the Superview IV Results environment also enables viewing of various applied load and element quality contours for all analysis types.

Figure 2: The "Results" drop-down menus for linear static stress (left) and heat transfer (right) analyses.

Selections in the "Results Options" drop-down menu also vary according to analysis type (Figure 3). Standard options for all analysis types include load case selection, smoothing options and legend box settings.

For analysis types involving displacement, such as linear static stress, you can simultaneously show displaced and undisplaced versions of the model by using the "Results Options:Displaced Model Options..." command sequence. This opens the "Displaced Model Options" dialog (Figure 4), in which you can choose to:

• show the displaced model along with a solid or mesh-only version of the undisplaced model;
• use an absolute value or a percentage-of-model-size scale factor for the displacement magnitude.

Figure 3: The "Results Options" drop-down menu for linear static stress (left) and heat transfer (right) analyses.	Figure 4: The "Displaced Model Options" dialog.

Defining Plot Settings

Plot settings are fully definable in the Superview IV Results environment. Options are included for specifying contour colors, legend properties, range settings, vector plots and isolines.

First, access the "Plot Settings" dialog (Figure 5) by using the "Display Options:Plot Settings..." command sequence. Then, choose settings using the five dialog tabs as follows:

• "Contour Colors" tab: Choose from six different preset color ranges or specify a "Custom" range.
• "Legend Properties" tab: Indicate visibility using the "Show Legend Box" toggle; specify the box's position with one of four standard placements or the "User-Specified Position" option; select the number of tick marks and precision level as well as specifications for border and background; and choose a TrueType font and point size.
• "Range Settings" tab: Select whether to use an automatically calculated range, spanning the entire minimum-to-maximum range for the current load case, or to enter particular values for the low and high ends of the range; and specify whether to display only elements whose result values are either less or greater than a particular value.
• "Vector Plots" tab: Activate the "Scale by vector magnitudes" option to specify that arrows used in vector plots will vary in size with respect to the magnitude of the value at each node instead of being all the same size; control the size of the arrows by using a slider.
• "Isolines" tab: Activate the "Plot isolines" option to specify that results will be displayed by contour lines instead of shading; specify that all isolines will be one color selected in a pull-down menu instead of colored according to the magnitude of the display value; increment isolines from the range minimum to the range maximum in a chosen number of steps; or increment isolines from zero to the maximum value in chosen unit increments.

	Figure 5: The "Plot Settings" dialog provides control over numerous plots settings via its five tabs: "Contour Colors" (top left), "Legend Properties" (top right), "Range Settings" (center left), "Vector Plots" (center right) and "Isolines" (bottom left).

Specifying Annotations

The Superview IV Results environment automatically includes several annotations in a model presentation. You can either use these default annotations, customize them, delete them or specify additional annotations using right-click functions in the left-hand tree view.

In order to change an existing annotation:

• right click on the annotation you wish to change in the left-hand tree view, which will highlight the corresponding annotation in the model presentation and open a pop-up menu offering "Modify...", "Rename", "Visible", "Move" and "Delete" action options (Figure 6);
• choose "Modify..." in the pop-up menu, which will open the "Annotation" dialog (Figure 7);
• change the text, description, positioning and font information as necessary in the "Annotation" dialog; and
• click "OK" to effect the changes.

Figure 6: The right-click pop-up menu for annotations in the left-hand tree view and the highlighted corresponding annotation in the model presentation area.	Figure 7: The "Annotation" dialog.

In order to add a new annotation:

• in the left-hand tree view area, right click on "Annotations" under the presentation you're viewing (in Figure 6, you would right click on "Annotations" under the "1 < Temperature >" presentation to change the current results presentation);
• in the pop-up menu that appears, which includes options to "Add...", "Show All", "Hide All" and "Delete" all annotations for the current presentation, choose "Add...";
• enter the information for your new annotation in the "Annotation" dialog that opens; and
• click "OK" to add the new annotation.

For more information about creating, saving (with either the model or the system) and reusing presentations, see How to Work with Presentations. For more information about specifying model presentations in the Superview IV Results environment, see the ALGOR User's Guide.