Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-1 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 SECTION 14 RESULTS

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-2 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-3 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULTS INTRODUCTION Results can come from many analysis types Structural, thermal, CFD, electromagnetic Static or dynamic The Results post processing module can be used to process scalar, vector, and tensor results into a variety of graphical display types

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-4 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULTS INTRODUCTION (Cont.) The results can be read through Standard translators, e.g. Analysis menu for MSC.Nastran perference PATRAN 2.5.dis,.els, or.nod formats in File/Import/Results Read into database via PCL Results from various analysis runs can be stored in the same database under different result cases Static Transient – each time step = 1 Result Case Non-linear – each load increment = 1 Result Case More than one load case can be operated on simultaneously Results can be filtered based on attributes or numerical values

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-5 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULTS INTRODUCTION (Cont.) Results can be displayed in any coordinate system Vector components in a local coordinate system New results may be derived by linearly combining existing results, using a user-defined PCL expression or PCL function, etc. Any plot can be saved in a file and retrieved for future use

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-6 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 THE RESULTS MAIN FORM Procedure Set Action to Create and select type of plot (the Object) Select the Result Case(s) and the result type Apply to add the plot to the display Plots can be animated by clicking the Animate button(lower left) when the plot is created

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-7 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULT PLOT TYPES Quick Plot – quick and easy access for fringe, deformed, or combined plot or animation Deformation plot – more options, e.g. Target Entities Quick PlotDeformation Plot

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-8 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULT PLOT TYPES (Cont.) Fringe plot – on the deformed or undeformed model Element Fill plot – one color per element on the deformed or undeformed model Fringe PlotElement Fill Plot

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-9 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULT PLOT TYPES (Cont.) Vector (Marker) plots – at nodes or element centroids Tensor (Marker) plots – displayed in elemental or principal coordinate system Vector PlotAnimation Animation – deformed and/or fringe plots can be animated

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-10 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULT PLOT TYPES (Cont.) XY Plot (Graph) – Results vs. Global Variable Results vs. Another Result Result vs. Distance Result along any user-specified Geometric Entity Global Variable vs. Global Variable Result with respect to a Local System Result along an Arbitrary Path Text report writer - create formatted text for analysis reports

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-11 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 QUICK PLOT FORM Quick Plot result display form has been designed to accommodate easy access to basic post-processing feature such as: Fringe plots Deformed plots Combined fringe and deformation plots Quick animation Simple Deformed, Fringe, or combination plots can be created and animated with very few menu selections: Select Result Case Select Fringe Result Select Deformation Result Click on Animation (if desired) Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-12 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 QUICK PLOT ANIMATION FORM Deformed Shape (static or modal) and/or fringe animation can be performed The defaults are to animate both fringes and deformation with the modal method in 2D, 15 frames You can change any of these options through the Animation Options form Modal animation creates frames by multiplying the results from –1.0 to +1.0; Ramped goes from 0 to D uses in plane animation; 3D lets you rotate the model with the middle mouse button while the model is still animating The more frames you select, the smoother the animation, but more computer resources are used

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-13 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULTS POST-PROCESSING PROCEDURE Set Action to Create Select the plot type (Object), i.e. Deformation, Fringe, etc. Select the Result Case(s), i.e. static, modal, transient, etc. Select the result type, i.e. deformation, stress, strain, etc. Select the position, e.g. layer in shell Select the Quantity, i.e. Min. Principal, Component, etc. Modify Target Entities, Display Attributes, Plot and Animation Options as desired using icons at top of form

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-14 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 SELECT RESULTS FORM If multiple result cases are in the database can cursor select one or more from the Select Result Case(s) list Click on one to select it Select a continuously listed set using click and drag Select a discontinuous set by Ctrl- clicking If desired, filter using View Subcases, then Select Subcases Position selection for beam or shell layered results The particular result value component or derived quantity plotted can be selected from Quantity pull-down menu or from Show As Select Subcases View Subcases

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-15 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 SELECT RESULTS FORM (Cont.) To filter Results Case(s): Click on Select Subcases Setup one or more filters using Filter Method Global Variable, e.g. time Character String Subcase IDs A combination of the above Select Filter to see the resulting list of Selected Result Case(s) Click Apply if the list is what is wanted Select Subcases

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-16 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 TARGET ENTITIES FORM Results in the Select Result Case(s) can be plotted on targeted entities based on: Current Viewport (default) A set of Elements or Nodes Groups Materials, Properties, or Element types Target Entities button

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-17 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 TARGET ENTITIES FORM (Cont.) Depending on the plot type, additional Display Controls Include Nodes Elements Faces/Free Faces Edges/Free Edges Corners Element Centroids Element Nodes Element All Data Remember that lists can also be created and used with groups to act as user-defined filters (i.e. elements with 10,000

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-18 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 DISPLAY ATTRIBUTES FORM The Display Attributes form will change to match the plot type and results entity selected Parameters are filtered such that only those appropriate for the currently selected plot type are displayed Display Attributes button

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-19 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 Coordinate system transformation options for vector results As Is – no transformation. Results in solver coordinate system(s). CID – Patran local coordinate system, e.g. Coord 3 Projected CID – coordinate system projected onto surface, e.g. Coord 2.1 Global – Patran global coordinate system, Coord 0 Default – results are kept in the solver coordinate system(s) Nodal – responses(e.g. displacement components) are shown in the MSC.Patran analysis coordinate frame of each node Patran user manual provides detailed information on these transformations IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE THIS MATERIAL PLOT OPTIONS FORM, VECTOR Plot Options button

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-20 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY : VECTOR COMPONENTS IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Create a new database and import the existing IGES file Create a new database and go to File:Import Set the source to IGES, select vector_CID.igs and click Apply Click Yes when IGES report summary appears

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-21 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY : VECTOR COMPONENTS IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Change views and mesh the surface Click on the Iso 3 icon Click on Elements and set Action/Object/Type to Create/Mesh/Surface Select Quad, IsoMesh, and Quad 4 Remove check from Automatic Calculation and change the Global Edge Length to 0.75 Select the surface and click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-22 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY : VECTOR COMPONENTS IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Create demonstration results for the quad4 mesh Click on Results and set Action/Object/Method to Create/Results/Demo Select Scalar, Vector and Tensor Click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-23 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY : VECTOR COMPONENTS IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Create a vector plot using the demo results for the mesh Under Results, set Action/Object/Method to Create/Marker/Vector Select the result case Derived Results, Demo Select the vector result type Nodal Vector, Demo Result1 Change Show As: to Component and select XX, YY, and ZZ

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-24 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY : VECTOR COMPONENTS IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Change the display attributes options Click on the Display Attributes icon(middle icon at top) Remove checks from Show Spectrum and Show Viewport Legend Change Length to Screen Scaled and enter 0.2 for Scale Factor Remove check from Show Title and Show Vector Label

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-25 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY : VECTOR COMPONENTS IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Change the Plot Option settings Click on the Plot Options icon(fourth icon from the left at the top) Change Coordinate Transformation to CID and select Coord 1 as the coordinate frame Click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-26 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 PLOT OPTIONS FORM, FRINGE The Plot Options Form is used to control the following: Coordinate Transformation, e.g. transform stress components Scale Factor – multiply results by factor Filter Values – filter results displayed using result values Averaging Domain and Method – how element results are combined Extrapolation method – how results are combined in an element Use a PCL Expression Re-loading of an existing plot Saving current plot for future use

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-27 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 PLOT OPTIONS FORM, FRINGE (Cont.) Coordinate system transformation options for scalar results As Is – no transformation. Results in solver coordinate system(s). CID – Patran local coordinate system, e.g. Coord 3 Projected CID – coordinate system projected onto element, e.g. Coord 2.1 Global – Patran global coordinate system, Coord 0 Default – results are kept in the solver coordinate system(s) Material – element coordinate systems based on a material definition and angle. Only for quad and tri topology. Element IJK – Patran defined element coordinate systems. These can be different from solver element coordinate systems. Patran user manual provides detailed information on these transformations

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-28 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION EXAMPLES CID, Select Coordinate Frame Coord 1 Global – uses Patran Coord 0 Element IJK – uses first two element nodes for xx direction Projected CID, Select CF Axis Coord 1.2, changing axis changes xx direction by 90 o xx yy xx yy xx Coord 0

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-29 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 FRINGE PLOT OPTIONS Domain All Entities -- all result values at a node are averaged producing a single value None -- no averaging at nodes Result values at a node are averaged if the contributing elements are of the same Type, Material or element Property, or are part of the defined Target Entity set Material Property Target Entities Element Type Averaging Definition provides different options to determine the result values at nodes(*) shared by adjacent elements *

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-30 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 AVERAGING DEFINITION/DOMAIN FOR COARSE AND FINE MESHED MODEL Coarse mesh, average all elements Fine mesh, average all elementFine mesh, no averaging Coarse mesh, no averaging Note: Derive/Average and Shape Fn. was used

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-31 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 Averaging Definition options (continued) Method When both averaging and derivation of a new result invariant (such as determining von Mises stress from the stress tensor) are to be performed the user has the following options: Derive/Average: calculates the derived result invariant at the integration points, extrapolates that to the nodes, then plots the average Average/Derive: extrapolates the component values to the nodes, averages them, then calculates the derived result using the average nodal component values FRINGE PLOT OPTIONS (Cont.)

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-32 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 FRINGE PLOT OPTIONS (Cont.) Averaging Definition options (continued) Method Difference: plots the magnitude of the absolute difference between the largest and smallest of the values at a node Sum: plots the sum of all values at a node

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-33 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 AVERAGING DEFINITION/METHOD FOR COARSE AND FINE MESHED MODEL Coarse mesh, DifferenceFine mesh, Difference Note: All Entities and Shape Fn. Used.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-34 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 FRINGE PLOT OPTIONS (Cont.) Extrapolation of element results to the elements nodes can be done as follows Average: result is averaged within the element, then the value from averaging is assigned to the elements nodes node result = (element result i) 1 N i=1 N

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-35 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 FRINGE PLOT OPTIONS (Cont.) Extrapolation options (continued) Shape Fn.: result value at the elements nodes is determined from fitting an extrapolating surface through the known element result values Centroid:the centroid value of the extrapolation surface is used at the elements nodes Min:the smallest of the integration point values is used Max:the largest of the integration point values is used Extrapolating surface Element Integration point, + Element result value,

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-36 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 EXTRAPOLATION/AVERAGE FOR COARSE AND FINE MESHED MODEL Coarse meshFine mesh Note: All Entities and Derive/Average used.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-37 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 FRINGE PLOT OPTIONS (Cont.) Define PCL Expression There is only one Independent Variable. It is named SCALAR. It is the scalar variable that is being used to create the fringe plot, e.g. Von Mises stress under Select Results/Quantity Can use standard arithmetic operations (e.g. +) and Intrinsic Functions (e.g SIND) Input the desired PCL Expression, e.g. $SCALAR Only one result case is allowed. If multiple result cases are needed use Utilities/Results/Result Toolbox.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-38 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 DISPLAY FRINGE PLOT FOR INSIDE OF 3D MODEL Show results color fringe for interior of 3D model Create a clipping plane, e.g. Viewing/Arbitrary Clipping Create a fringe plot using Results, including Target Entities/Addtl. Display Control/Faces Or better, can use Insight; create a fringe plot on planes of constant coordinate value

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-39 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 DEFORMED SHAPE PLOTS Deformed and Undeformed features (e.g. color, Render Style, Line Style are changed in this form) The scale is set based on either model size or actual deformation (True Scale) Undeformed shape can be toggled off Scale Factor = 0.1 Scale Factor = 0.2

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-40 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 VECTOR MARKER PLOT Vector components or resultants can be rendered Vector plot Display Attributes and Plot Options forms control the display of any nodal vector quantity Vector Results can be plotted with respect to any Coordinate System

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-41 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 MARKER DISPLAY ATTRIBUTES The vector length and style can be changed in the Display Attributes form Vectors anchored at the tip Vectors anchored at the base

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-42 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CREATE RESULTS FORM The Create/Results form is used to select, manipulate, and combine results Create derived results based on using the following operations for the specified set of results: Combine – linear combination of set members Maximum – new result case with maximum from set of results Minimum – minimum from set of results Sum – sum results in result set Average – average results in result set Demo – create dummy result case for existing mesh Specify set of results

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-43 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CREATE RESULTS FORM (Cont.) PCL Function for user defined expression Independent Variables that are available are dependent on type of results being used, i.e. Nodal Scalar has $SCALAR, Nodal Tensor has $XX, $YY, etc. Can use standard arithmetic operators (e.g. +) and Intrinsic Functions (e.g. SIND) Input desired PCL Expression, e.g. SQRT($XX**2 + $YY**2) This represents ( xx 2 + yy 2 ) 1/2 for tensor results Only one result case allowed. Use PCL expression for multiple result cases by using Utilities/Results/Result Toolbox.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-44 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Create a new database and import the existing model Go to File:New Enter a name for the database and click OK Go to File:Import Change Source to IGES and select surfmesh.igs file and click Apply Click OK when IGES Report Summary appears

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-45 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Create demonstration results for the elements Click on Results and set Action/Object/Method to Create/Results/Demo Click on Element, set scale factor to 1.0, and select At Centriod Click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-46 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Change the name of the default group Go to Group: Modify Click on Rename and enter sigma_x under Rename As Click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-47 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Create two more groups, each having the entire model Under Groups, set Action to Create Enter sigma_y under New Group Name Click on Entity Selection and select all entities from the viewport and click Apply Repeat steps and create a new group called SQRT that also has all the entities in it

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-48 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Rename existing viewport and create two viewports so there will be one viewport for each group. Go to Viewport: Modify, and use Rename to change name default_viewport to vp1 Go to Viewport: Create Enter vp2 as a New Viewport Name and click Apply Create one more viewport called vp3 Go to Viewport:Tile

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-49 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Post each group to a separate viewport Click on the top left viewport to make it current. Go to Group:Post Select group sigma_x and click Apply Post the other two groups so that each group is posted in its own viewport. sigma_xsigma_y SQRT

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-50 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Create a result case using a PCL Function (expression) using the existing result case Click on Results and set Action/Object/Method to Create/Results/PCL Function Select Derived Results, Demo from Select Result Case(s) Select Element Tensor, Demo Result1 from Select Result Set New Result Type to Scalar

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-51 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Finish the PCL function Click on Define PCL Expression… Under PCL Expression, input the expression SQRT($XX**2 + $YY**2) Click OK, then click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-52 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Post the results for the sigma_x group Change Quantity to X Component and click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-53 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Post the results for the sigma_y group Keep everything the same as for the sigma_x group, except change the Quantity to Y Component and click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-54 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Post the results for the SQRT group Under Select Result Case(s), select Derived Results, Subcase 1 and click Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-55 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CASE STUDY: USING PCL EXPRESSIONS Your window should look like this:

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-56 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 X-Y GRAPH PLOTTING Select Results Cases Select the Y – axis result and Quantity, and X – axis entity Click on Target Entities icon and select entities for which the XY- Plot is to be generated Click on Apply to generate the XY Plot

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-57 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 TEXT REPORT WRITER Writes out requested results information to the MSC.Patran parent window (preview option) or to a file Report type options: Full – results and all related information Summary – max/min and associated Nodes or Elements Data only Results, Target Entities and Plot Options are very similar to those of other Plot Types

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-58 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 TEXT REPORT WRITER (Cont.) Available data includes Loadcase, subcase, and layer ID X, Y, Z location of integration point or node Stress components Stress invariants Magnitude of deformation X, Y, Z components of deformation Result CID Material name and ID Property name and ID Analysis CID of node Report type Method are Preview, Overwrite File, and Append File

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-59 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 TEXT REPORT WRITER (Cont.) Display Attributes form Format Report format and column ordering can be adjusted to the users needs Page title, header and footer can be specified Real and integer number format can be specified

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-60 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 FREEBODY RESULTS Graphical display of freebody diagrams from results values Option to create new load sets Currently supported results are from MSC.Nastran Data must be available from Grid Point Force Balance Table (GPFORCE=ALL)

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-61 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 EXAMPLE FREEBODY RESULTS REVIEW External Loads Internal Section Loads Reaction Forces

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-62 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CREATING A RANGE To create a new range, you can go to Results/Display Attributes/Range/Define Range, or use Display/Ranges in the Patran main menu Step 6: assign the range to the current viewport (or use Viewport/Modify/ Change Range) Step 5: Apply Step 4: calculate range value Step 1: create a range (one for each viewport) Step 3: select Thresholding if needed Step 2: select a Data Method

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-63 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CREATING A RANGE (Cont.) DATA METHOD Semi-Auto Contiguous subranges starting from and ending at user-supplied values (or use Fit Results) Semi-Auto (Delta) Contiguous sub-ranges starting from a value then incrementing (or decrementing) by a delta value From: Discrete sub-range starting from a value From/To: Discrete sub-range starting from a value extending to a value (can leave holes) Middle: Contiguous sub-ranges defined by their mean value

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-64 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CREATING A RANGE (Cont.) THRESHOLDING For either of the semi-auto data methods All results between Start and/or End of results and start of threshold will be colored uniformly End < threshold value < Start Press Calculate, and if satisfactory press Apply

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-65 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 RESULTS WITH MULTIPLE VIEWPORTS Fringe Plot of Von Mises Stress ValuesWireframe Deformed Shape Same model in both viewports, but displays created using different groups

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-66 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 A results template can be used to specify post-processing parameter values Once the template file is created it is not necessary to specify all the many parameter values for processing results Provides pre-definition of all settings under Display Attributes and Plot Options CUSTOMIZING THE RESULTS POST PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT RESULTS TEMPLATE

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-67 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CUSTOMIZING THE RESULTS POST PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT RESULTS TEMPLATE (Cont.) Results templates from MSC.Patran Results form values

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-68 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CUSTOMIZING THE RESULTS POST PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT RESULTS TEMPLATE (Cont.) MSC.Patran Results using Result templates

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-69 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CUSTOMIZING THE RESULTS POST PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT MSC_INITIALIZE Every Database contains functionality called MSC_Initialize which sets the default display parameters for Display Attributes and Plot Options (not used by Quick Plot) This is used as follows Create a results plot with the desired settings under Display Attributes and Plot Options The corresponding PCL commands are recorded in the session file Do any needed modification of the session file Read the session file into a new empty database The new database can be used as a template database, in place of template.db Details can be found under Help

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-70 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 EXERCISE Perform Workshop 16 Connecting Rod Using 1D and 2D Elements in your exercise workbook

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-71 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 XY PLOT

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-72 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-73 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 XY PLOT Manages appearance of XY windows Manages display of curves in XY windows Fully integrated with results, loads, properties, and material data

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-74 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 XY PLOT TERMINOLOGY Titles Y Axis X Axis Grid Line Primary Tick Mark Secondary Tick Mark Legend

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-75 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 CURVE DATA FROM FILE FileFormat XY DATAXYDATA, beautiful_curve If XY pairs YDATAYDATA, new_curve If Y only100. (X initial100. and Xdelta300. will be300. specified500. under curve500. data400. attributes) Data set 1 Curve name Data set 2 Contents of file file_1. xyd Read contents of (x,y) data pair text file into MSC.Patran using XY Plot XY Plot: Create/Curve, Curve Data Input

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-76 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 SCALE AND RANGE Scale Linear Semi-Log Log-Log Range Controls method used to determine start and end points for the X and Y axes

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-77 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 TITLES % distance from left of window % distance from top of window LEGEND quadratic_load XY Plot: database_name: XYWindow1 Load Case 4

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-78 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 MODIFY DISPLAY PARAMETERS Virtually anything you see on the screen can be modified XY Window:border, background, color Curve: line style, name, data, symbols, color, thickness, curve fit method Legend:on/off, location, border, text, background, color Axis:line style, scale, label formats, titles, tick marks, grid lines Plot Titles:location, size, color, post/unpost

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-79 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 MODIFY XY WINDOW Border Background

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S14-80 PAT301, Section 14, October 2003 MODIFY CURVE Available symbol types Dot Square Fill Diamond Circle Fill Square Arrowhead Fill Circle Triangle Fill Arrowhead X Fill Triangle Hexagon Plus Diamond Fill Hexagon