Quantity Tab
Use the Quantity tab on the Result Window Definition dialog box to select a quantity for your result window display. The choices that appear on the Quantity tab depend on the design study and display type you select. The items that are available change immediately if you change the design study or display type.
These are the items that can appear on the Quantity tab:
• Quantity—Select the quantity you want to display in the result window. The menu displays only the quantities that are valid for the design study and display type you choose. The quantity you select determines which of the remaining items appears on the
Quantity tab. For a selected quantity appropriate units are displayed adjacent to the quantity. You can select
units for the quantity or accept the default units.
• Secondary Quantity drop-down list—Select a secondary quantity to display in the result window. This item appears if you select
Fatigue,
Reaction,
Shell Resultant, or
Beam Resultant from the
Quantity drop-down list.
• Component—Select the component you want to display in the result window. The menu displays only components that are valid for the quantity you select from the
Quantity drop-down list, and only appears for certain quantities.
• Relative To—Select the reference for a directional component. This item appears only if you select a directional component.
• Graph Ordinate (Vertical) Axis—Select the items you want to display on the vertical axis of a graph. This area appears only if you select a display type of Graph.
• Graph Abscissa (Horizontal) Axis—Select the items you want to display on the horizontal axis of a graph. This area appears only if you select a display type of Graph.
• Graph Location—Select the type of location you want to use for your graph results display. This area appears only if you select a display type of
Graph.
The following additional items are available depending on the quantity you select and whether beams or shells are present in the model. These items do not appear in FEM mode.
• Include contributions from beams—Select the beam contributions to include in the result window definition. This area appears only if there are beams in the model.
• Include contributions from shells—Select the shell contributions to include in the result window definition. This area appears only if there are shells in the model.
In addition to using the
Quantity tab to define your basic result quantity, you use the
Display Options tab,
Display Location tab and the
drop-down list at the upper left-corner of a result window to further refine the result window display.