ABAQUS CAE: Go from Beginner to Advanced!

Course by Peter Bejdák

Section: The basics of interacting with Abaqus CAE

COMPONENTS OF THE
TOOLBARS
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File
• The File toolbar allows you to create, open, and save model databases; to open output
databases; and to print viewports.
View Manipulation
• The View Manipulation toolbar allows you to specify different views of the model or plot.
For example, you can pan, rotate, or zoom the model or plot using these tools.
View Options
• The View Options toolbar allows you to specify whether or not perspective is applied to
your model.
Render Style
• The Render Style toolbar allows you to specify whether the wireframe, hidden line, or
shaded render style will be used to display your model. In the Visualization module the
Render Style toolbar also includes the filled render style tool.
Visible Objects
• The Visible Objects toolbar allows you to switch between displaying the geometry of an
Abaqus/CAE native part and the meshed representation of the same part and to toggle
the display of the reference representation on or off (if the meshed representation and
reference representation exist).
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Selection
• The Selection toolbar allows you to enable or disable object selection by toggling on the
arrow icon. You can use the list to the right of the arrow to limit the types of objects that
you can select. The Selection toolbar is available only when there are no active
procedures running in a viewport.
Query
• The Query toolbar allows you to obtain information about the geometry and features of
your model, to probe model and X–Y plots for output data, and to perform stress
linearization on your results.
Display Group
• The Display Group toolbar allows you to selectively plot one or more model or output
database items. For example, you can create a display group that contains only the
elements belonging to specified sets in your model.
View Cut
• The View Cut toolbar allows you to toggle the display of view cuts in modules other than
the Visualization module and to customize their definition and display.
Views
• The Views toolbar allows you to apply a custom view to the model in the viewport.
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Color Code
• The Color Code toolbar allows you to customize the colors of items in the viewport and
change the degree of their translucency. For color coding, you can create color mappings
that assign unique colors to different elements of a display. For example, when using a
part instance color mapping, each part instance in a model will appear as a different color.
For translucency, you can click the arrow to the right of the tool to reveal a slider, which
you can drag to make the display colors more transparent or more opaque.
Viewport
• The Viewport toolbar allows you to create and align viewports, link viewports, and create
viewport annotations.
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Section: The basics of interacting with Abaqus CAE

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