Functional Assignments > Loads and Boundary Conditions Application > 1.4 Loads and Boundary Conditions Global Display Parameters
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1.4 Loads and Boundary Conditions Global Display Parameters
This section includes display parameters which affect the Loads/BCs application. All of these parameters are found under the top menu pick “Display.” For more help see Display>LBC/Element Property Attributes (p. 393) in the Patran Reference Manual.
 
Form
Effect
Display/Functional Assignments
• Global control of Functional Assignment marker display. Allows user to change the colors and turn the display on/off of set types.
Display/Entity Type
• When the graphic preference is set to “entity mode,” the Display FA Vectors affect whether any Functional Assignments markers are displayed.
Note: This can be used to quickly refresh the graphical display, but once this toggle is off, no markers will be displayed until it is turned on again.
Display/Group
• When the graphics preference is set to “group mode,” the Display FA Vectors affect whether any Functional Assignments are displayed.
Display/Properties/Vector
• Allows user to control whether graphical “vectors” (i.e., arrows) are displayed with a constant length or are scaled relative to their magnitude.
Display/Properties/Geometric
• The number of visualization lines parameter affects where the Loads/BCs markers are displayed on geometric entities. If this number is greater than 10, markers will only be calculated at locations corresponding to 10 visualization lines.