From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
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XY plots - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis
XY plots
- [Instructor] Stress contour plots are very useful in understanding the overall distribution of stress. However, if we want to get a detailed understanding of a local stress region, then X-Y plots of stress versus distance are invaluable. Now what I want to do is to plot maximum principal stresses. In our result set here, we haven't got that setup at the moment, so we can do that. Right mouse click on results, say define stress plot. In the definition and the display options, let's choose first maximum principal stress. We can check the box there, and that's now being created, and we see immediately the plot is being created here. So what's active at the moment are the maximum principal stresses, we can see the stress range in here. If we want to we can tidy this up, so let's go again to chart options, and we can say, let's switch off the de-form shape, and in the settings we can say we want the fringe option to be discrete, and we want the boundary conditions again to be a mesh…
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