The radio buttons, Spectrum and Constant, allow you display contour lines with either a spectrum of colors relative to their numerical value or as a single color respectively.

This toggle will remove or display the spectrum bar within the current viewport. If you set the toggle off and spectrum is still displayed, check if you have other plots posted in the viewport. If there are other plots, you will need to set this toggle off for all plots posted in the viewport.

This toggle will remove or display the legend that is shown in the lower right hand corner of the viewport. This legend displays the plot name and which entity contains the maximum and minimum result values. If you set the toggle off and the legend is still displayed, check if you have other plots posted in the viewport. If there are other plots, you will need to set this toggle off for all plots posted in the viewport.

This button will activate the Spectrum form. This form allows you to select an existing spectrum to be associated to the current viewport. It also allows you to define a new spectrum. Since this form is independent of the Results application, you will not need to press the Apply button on the Results application to effect changes to the spectrum. To learn more about changing the spectrum see Overview (p. 2) in the Results Postprocessing.

This button will activate the Range sub form. This form allows you to assign an existing range to the viewport’s spectrum. See Spectrum/Range Control, 34 for details. The form also allows you to modify an existing range or create a new range. To learn more about ranges see Overview (p. 2) in the Results Postprocessing.

This button allows you to change the color that the element edges are rendered with.

This pop down button allows you to select which element edges are rendered. The selection includes Free Edges and Element Edges which cause either the elements free edges or all element edges to be rendered respectively.

The Style pop down button allows you to control the line type that is used to render the element edges. The selections are solid, dashed, dotted, and dot-dash line styles.

This pop down button allows you to control the thickness of the rendered element edges.

The Contour Style pop down button allows you to control the line type that is used to render the contour lines. The selections are solid, dashed, dotted, and dot-dash line styles.

This pop down button allows you to control thickness of the contour lines.

Selecting this button opens a form that allows the contour plot title to be edited. See Results Title Editor, 37.

If this toggle is ON, then a title for the contour plot is displayed. Otherwise no title is displayed.

If this toggle is ON, then the title for the contour plot is not modified by results form selections. Otherwise some results form selections modify the title.

If this toggle is ON, the maximum and minimum value of the selected result type will be displayed. Their value labels will be rendered in a color different than all other value labels.

As you adjust the Label Frequency slider from 0 to Max the spacing between the contour line labels will decrease therefore increasing the label density. To turn off contour labeling adjust the slider to zero. Zero label frequency is the default frequency value.

Pressing the Label Style button causes the Contour Label Style form to appear. The form allows you to modify the label color, format (e.g. fixed, exponential, and integer), and significant figures of the plot’s range and maximum/minimum labels.

If this toggle is set ON, the Contour plot will be targeted on the model’s posted deformed shape. By default, the Contour plot will display on all deformation plots posted in viewport. If this is not desired, see Target Entities, 4 for further options.