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Contour fill

Menu: View results->Contour Fillfill

• Please select View results->Contour fill->Pressure through the menu bar, or clicking on or using the Window->View results... window.

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• If not all sets show the contour fill like the picture above, remember to select Body Boundaries Image Removed mesh mesh style for all the sets.

This option allows the visualization of result using a colour color map, in which a scalar variable or a component of a vector varies between two defined values. GiD can use as many colours colors as permitted by the graphical capabilities of the computer The number of colours colors can be set through Utilities->Preferences - Postprocess->Contour fill and lines
By number of colors.
A menu of the variables available results to be represented will be shown, and the one that is chosen will be displayed using the default analysis and current step selected.
In the model the pressure has been calculated. We can visualize the result for each step in a contour fill.
You can choose the step that you want to view through the View results window or clicking on the icon

• Select the the Analysis analysis named RANSOL and its step 103.0

Several configuration options can be set via the preferences window .
You can change the color scale in order to get a more comfortable view. You can select several predefined color maps The default scale is rainbow, which is a rainbow colour color map starting from blue (minimum) through green and yellow, to red (maximum).

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• Now open the display style window (Window-->View style) to switch off all meshes except the created Cuts. You can see that several layers have appeared with a prefix like Cut1 indicating Cut indicating which mesh or set has been cut. These names can always be changed by selecting the mesh and pressing F2 or right-click and rename option.
• Select all the layers except the cuts and change their style to Boundaries . You can rotate the model in order to see the contour fill result on the cut planes.
• In the same window select all the Cuts and click on Delete button in order to delete them.
• Select Body Bound  as mesh style to visualize the contour fill of pressure again.
• In the preferences window  , select Postprocess->Contour fill and lines and press the Default values button in order to restore the default options.

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Outliers will be drawn in the colour color defined in the Out minimum colourcolor option of the preferences window . In order to filter out the negative values we will change this color to transparent.

• Select Out minimum colourcolor: Transparent and press Apply.

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