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User manual Release 4.0, June 2006
ATTACHED draws only nodes attached to some other items currently displayed.
UNATTACHED draws only nodes that are not attached to anything (visible or not).
Associated data: Local direction TRIADS are drawn for element types with coordinate systems.
4.4.2 How labelling on plots is handled for nodes and elements
The default label is a node or element number, but a variable amount of information can be generated to form a "label"
which can run to multiple lines, as this example shows:
This figure shows an example of shells which have been labelled with:
LABEL Mnnn for Membrane<nnn>.
FOLDER attempts to group labels logically and to locate them so that they don’t overlap, but if you try to add too much
information you will end up with a total mess on the page. For example, two categories of data labelled on elements, is
the sensible maximum; and even it starts to get messy when label numbers get large (> 5 digits).
Labelling uses the standard acronyms for entities, these are listed in Appendix 1.
The "attached" nodes in this figure have also been switched on: these are drawn as asterisks (*) at the relevant element
vertices.
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