From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
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Contour control - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
Contour control
- [Narrator] Stress contour plots are one of the most powerful ways of reviewing component strength. There are lots of options available within SOLIDWORKS post-processing, and we're going to explore some of these. Let's go to the Results icon in the Analysis feature tree. We got Stress1 vonMises. Now we've got various controls available for the contour plot. We're going to use this region as the target in here that we're looking at. So right mouse click on Stress1 vonMises, and select Chart Options. So, uncheck all the options shown here, Display Options, apart from Show legend. So, min and max annotation I'm switching off, and also the plot details are disappearing. So we just got the legend, which is the legend over here, which is left. This cleans up the contour plot considerably. Now the maximum and minimum stress values are shown grayed out on the controls here. We've got an option to override them. Let's say we only want to show peak stress zones. Uncheck the Automatically…
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