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Types of Gauss Points Presentations


There exist three different types of Gauss Points Presentations: Results at Gauss Points, Gauss Points on Geometry and Gauss Points on Deformed Shape. They all can be accessed from the same menu.


Results at Gauss Points

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To create a Results at Gauss Points presentation, select Results radio button. This presentation gives most information as the points here vary in color and size depending on the value.
As for the size, the minimum and maximum Range values for the rendering can be defined in the configuration dialog. These values are multiplied by a reference length (representative of the average size of cells of the mesh) to define the range for minimum and maximum size of a point during rendering (at magnification = 100%). Default values are:

Both values are dynamically updated by the system according to the selected scalar bar. In the case of a Bicolor scale, the minimum value is set to 0 in the dialog and the control is disabled.
Magnification (%) corresponds to the change of size of results at Gauss point primitives in 2D space. Acceptable values range from 0 to N; 100% means no magnification, 50% means half of its size, 200% mean twice its size and so forth. By default this value is set to 100%.
+/- Ratio corresponds to the number by which the magnification will be respectively multiplied or divided at edition, ranging from 0.01 to 10. By default this value is set to 2.
During rendering of the scene, it is possible to modify the magnification (multiply/divide by the magnification ratio) by using ?M? and ?m? keys of the keyboard when the 3D view is active. The effect is applied immediately. The ratio is only defined through the dialog box.


Gauss Points on Geometry

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To create a Geometry presentation, select the respective radio button. This presentation shows only geometrical position of Gauss Points as their size and color are fixed (because the results are not computed).
Size defines a value that will be multiplied by a reference length (representative of the average size of cells of the mesh) to define the size of points during rendering (at magnification = 100%). Default values 10%.
Magnification and Ratio have the same meaning as for Results at Gauss points presentation.
Color allows to define the unique color for Gauss Points in a standard color configuration dialog.


Gauss Points on Deformed Shape

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To create a Deformed Shape presentation, select the respective radio button. This presentation is analog to Results at Gauss Points except that the shape on which the points are located is deformed using the Scale Factor and the Gauss Points are processed only after that.


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