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CAESAR II Users Guide

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CAESAR II Version
12

Static Output Processor menu: Options > Graphical Output

Standard toolbar: 3D Plot

To support a graphics mode, the Static Output Processor window provides 3D/HOOPS Graphics toolbars that contain commands to zoom, orbit, and pan, as well as provide the ability to switch views and modes.

The 3D/HOOPS Graphics toolbar commands include the display of displaced shapes, highlighting and zooming to maximum displacements, restraint loads, and stresses of the model. Another advantage provided by 3D/HOOPS graphics is the graphical representation of stresses by value and by percentage use color.

A variety of CAESAR II Output Plot functions, accessed from the 3D/HOOPS Graphics toolbars or the Show menu, are broken into submenus:

  • Displacements

  • Restraints

  • Forces/Moments

  • Stresses

Selection Options Toolbar

Show Event Viewer Grid

Shows or hides the Event Viewer on the plot. See Element Viewer Dialog Box.

Zoom to Selection - Output Zoom to Selection

Fits the selected element in the view.

Organization Tools Toolbar

Line Numbers

Displays the Line Numbers dialog box, which allows graphical editing of line numbers. You can do the following from this pane.

  • Assign a new line number to the block of elements that have been selected on the 3D graphical display.

  • Remove an existing line number.

  • Set and reset visibility options to hide and unhide elements.

  • Assign a color to an individual line number.

To reassign one or more elements from one line number to another existing line number, simply drag-and-drop (move) the elements between existing Line Numbers in the Line Numbers dialog box.

When you click the Line Number name in the Line Number dialog box, the corresponding elements are highlighted in the 3D pane and are selected to perform block (global) operations.

For more information, see Line Numbers Dialog Box.