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The View Results menu and window are used to manage the visualization of the different type of results.
Menu: View results
The View Results menu lets you select any type of result:
- Contour fill
- Contour lines
- Contour ranges
- Show min/max
- Display vectors
- Iso surfaces
- Stream lines
- Node trace
- Graphs
- Result surface
- Deformation
- Line diagram
- Line thickness
- Integrate
- Distribution...
- Volume render
Smoothed sub-menu with gaussian results:
Results can be located on the nodes of the mesh, nodal results, or on the integration points defined on the elements, known as gauss points, gaussian results.
For instance, selecting a contour fill visualization of a nodal result will draw a continous colour continuous color map over the mesh geometry. But for results located at the gauss points, there is no guarantee that the values are continous continuous between elements; in fact they are usually discontinousdiscontinuous. So, visualizing a Contour fill of a gaussian result will display a discontinuous colour color map over the mesh:
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Most of the above results visualization can be performed over nodal and gaussian results. Currently the exceptions are: Contour text ranges, Stream lines, node trace, graphs, and deformations.
GiD also smoothes smooth the gaussian results to provide a continous colour continuous color map:
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How the global smoothing is done can be adjusted with Options --> Contour --> Smoothing type:
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If there are gaussian results present in the simulation files, and if these gaussian results can be smoothed, then in the results visualizations menus, besides the results list a new entry will appear with the label Smoothed, and a sub-menu will pop-up with the gaussian results which can be globally smoothed: 
Added sub-menu to perform a result's visualization with gaussian results globally smoothed
Following results visualizations can be performed on smoothed gaussian results:
Contour Fill, Contour lines, Iso surfaces, Graphs, Result surfaces and Line thickness
Menu: Window->View results
The View Results window manages the visualization of the following type of results:
- Contour fill
- Smooth contour fill ( of gaussian results globally smoothed), same as the menu Contour fill --> Smoothed
- Contour ranges (if Result Range Tables are present)
- Contour lines
- Smooth contour lines ( of gaussian results globally smoothed), same as the menu Contour lines --> Smoothed
- Display vectors
- Show min/max
- Result surface
- Smooth result surface ( of gaussian results globally smoothed), same as the menu Result surface --> Smoothed
- Line thickness
- Smooth line thickness ( of gaussian results globally smoothed), same as the menu Line thickness --> Smoothed
- Scalar and Vector line diagram (if Linear elements are present)
View Results window
As the results are grouped into steps and analyses, GiD must know which analysis and step is currently selected for displaying results. The Analysis menu of the View Results window is used to select the current analysis and step to be used for the rest of the results options. If some of the results view requires another analysis or step, you will be asked for it.
Note: If you no longer wish to view results, you can select No Result in this window or in the View results menu.