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The Patran Results application gives users control of powerful graphical capabilities to display results quantities in a variety of ways:
• Deformed structural plots
• Color banded fringe plots
• Contour line plots
• Marker plots (scalars, vectors, tensors)
• Cursor plots
• Freebody diagrams
• Graph (XY) plots
• Animations of most of these plot types.
The Results application treats all results quantities in a very flexible and general manner. In addition, for maximum flexibility results can be:
• Sorted
• Reported
• Scaled
• Combined
• Filtered
• Derived
• Deleted
All of these features help give meaningful insight into results interpretation of engineering problems that would otherwise be difficult at best.
The Results application is object oriented, providing postprocessing plots which are created, displayed, and manipulated to obtain rapid insight into the nature of results data. The imaging is intended to provide graphics performance sufficient for real time manipulation. Performance will vary depending on hardware, but consistency of functionality is maintained as much as possible across all supported display devices.
Capabilities for interactive results postprocessing also exist. Advanced visualization capabilities allow creation of many plot types which can be saved, simultaneously plotted, and interactively manipulated with results quantities reported at the click of the mouse button to better understand mechanical behavior. Once defined, the visualization plots remain in the database for immediate access and provide the means for results manipulation and review in a consistent and easy to use manner.