CST2013: 2D Scalar Plot Special Settings

2D/3D Plot: Properties Specials

Scaling frame

Scale components to vector maximum: Check this if you want all components (x/y/z) scaled to the vector maximum. Thus you can compare different components. If not checked, the components are scaled to their own maximum.

Clamp to range: Check this if you want to scale your plot to a range given below. This is useful to compare plots with different maximum values. Values outside the range are clamped (plotted as equal) to the maximum / minimum.

Please note: Scaling and logscale is disabled if clamp to range is active.

dB scaling: Check here to get a log. dB plot.

3D Max = 0dB/ 2D  Max = 0dB/ dB[unit]/ …: Set here the desired logarithmic unit; i.e.,if you set the "3D Max = 0dB"("2D Max = 0dB")  3D(2D) maximum is scaled to 0 dB and  if you set dBm[unit], you will get 0 dBm[unit] for a field of 1e-3[unit].

Range [dB]: Sets the range in dB of the plot color ramp.

Anchor point: Defines a suitable anchor point for a logarithmic color ramp according to different strategies. Select "custom" to set a value manually if the relevant range of interest can not be determined automatically (e.g. potential or temperature plots).

Anchor value: Current value of the active anchor point.

Plot quality

Plot data is represented by triangles. This slider enables you to influence the number of triangles used for your plot. A fine plot quality will result in a longer plot generation time and thus also in slower movies.

Note: This option is only available with hexahedral meshes. With tetrahedral meshes the 2D mesh quality will be directly influenced by the quality of the 3D mesh.

Adaptive plot refinement: This option activates the automatic refinement of the plot quality for hexahedral meshes. If the density of the hexahedral mesh is higher than the density of the mesh used to create the scalar plot then the latter will adapt itself to concur with the higher quality of the hexahedral mesh.

Please note: This option is very intensive on memory. So with extremely fine hexahedral meshes or very low memory resources it might be disabled.

Transparency

This slider allows you to set the transparency for drawing contour plots or carpet plots. A transparent visualization of field data may be useful in order to get an idea of the correlation of the fields on the visualization plane with the structure underneath.

OK

Takes the current settings and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Closes the dialog box without performing any further action.

Help

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