Download D3PLOT 12.0 user manual

User manual Version 12.0, October 2014
0 Preamble
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Host computers
Memory requirements
Output devices
New Features for Version 12.0
New Features for Version 11.0
New Features for Version 10.0
New Features for Version 9.4
New Features for Version 9.3RC1
New Features for Version 9.2
New Features for Version 9.0
New Features for Version 8.3
New Features for Version 8.2
New Features for version 8.1
New Features for version 8.0a
Manual Revision History
Text conventions used in this manual
1 SUPPORTED LS-DYNA FEATURES
1.1 Element Types
1.2 Types of results processed by D3PLOT
1.3 Support for LS-DYNA Multiphysics Solvers
1.4 D3PLOT Representation of Elements and Other Entities
1.5 LS-DYNA output files processed.
1.6 Other output files processed.
2 RUNNING D3PLOT
2.1 Starting the code
2.2 Selecting a graphics device.
2.3 If D3PLOT will not open a window on your display
2.4 Client/server graphics using X-Windows and OpenGL
2.5 Command Line Options
2.6 Multiple Windows and Models
2.7 Checkpoint Files
2.8 Memory Management
2.9 Tune : Improving Graphics Performance
3 USING THE D3PLOT SCREEN MENU SYSTEM
3.1 Basic screen menu layout
3.2 Mouse and keyboard usage for screen-menu interface
3.3 Dialogue input in the screen menu interface
3.4 Window management in the screen interface
3.5 "QUICK PICK" Options.
3.6 "Tabs" for multiple graphics windows.
3.7 Customising the User Interface
3.8 Shortcut Keys
3.9 Predictive Picking and Menu "Hover Over"
4 BASIC DATA EXTRACTION AND PLOTTING
4.1 Reading Results
4.2 Basic animation, the "current state", and selecting states.
4.3 Displaying geometry and results.
4.4 DATA COMPONENTS
4.5 Animation How to display, control, store and retrieve animation sequences.
4.6 STATUS Listing programme status
5 VIEWING CONTROL
5.1 Dynamic Viewing (Using the mouse to change views).
5.2 Viewing Control Buttons
5.3 Options under Viewing menu
5.4 Special 3D graphics driver options (OpenGL).
5.5 Saved properties
6 USING "TOOLS" OPTIONS
6.0 Introduction to main menu commands
6.1 BLANK “Blanking” controls the visibility of nodes and elements.
6.2 VOLUME_CLIPPING
6.3 DEFORM Deforming geometry.
6.4 CUT_SECTIONS
6.5 ENTITY Switching the display of entity categories on/off.
6.6 MEASURE Measuring distances from the screen.
6.7 WRITE Listing numerical data to screen and/or file.
6.8 XY_DATA Drawing numerical data as XY plots and/or writing it to file
6.9 UTILITIES Miscellaneous utility functions
6.10 GROUPS:
D3PLOT
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0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.2
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.7
0.8
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1.1
1.1
1.3
1.5
1.6
1.8
1.14
2.1
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.8
2.23
2.25
2.26
3.1
3.1
3.2
3.5
3.5
3.7
3.10
3.11
3.17
3.21
4.1
4.1
4.18
4.23
4.50
4.94
4.110
5.1
5.1
5.5
5.7
5.16
5.19
6.1
6.1
6.5
6.10
6.18
6.42
6.69
6.74
6.77
6.95
6.118
6.171
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