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Animation Dashboard - Contour Plots

Animation dashboard -> Contour Plots tab
Lets you set up the options for displaying Contour plots. For each viewport (see Viewports), you can change the way contour plots display colors and values. Note that this allows you to display different viewports at the same time but with different color values, which can be confusing because a color value in one viewport may not be the same as in another.
Learn more about contour plots with Animating Deformations, Modal Forces, and Stress/Strain.
 
For the option:
Do the following:
Display Legend
Select to turn on the display of legend.
Contour Plot Type
Select the type of contour plot to display. The type of plot depends on the analysis data. You can display deformation data from Adams Flex, stress and strain data from Adams Durability, and modal force (MFORCE) data from Adams Flex and Adams View, and kinetic energy from Adams Vibration.
Legend Placement
Select where you'd like the legend to appear.
Legend Title
Change the text of the legend title.
Colors
Enter the number of colors to be displayed in the plot. There can be no more than 255.
Legend gradients
Enter the number of color gradients shown in the legend.
Minimum Value
Enter the minimum value for the plot.
Maximum Value
Enter the maximum value for the plot.
Reset Limits
Select to reset the legend values based on the flexible bodies in the active view.
Decimal Places
Enter the number of decimal places to which the numbers in the legend should be displayed.
Scientific Range
Enter the exponential form for scientific notation. This controls the lower and upper powers of ten where the format for real numbers switches from a fixed point format to scientific notation. The default values are -4 and 5, meaning that any number less than or equal to 1.0E-04 or greater than or equal to 1.0E+05 will be written in scientific notation.
Trailing Zeros
Select to have Adams PostProcessor display zeros after the numbers in the legend. The number of zeros depends on the number of decimal points you selected for Decimal Places.