Creating Displacement Images

You can create translational displacement images. Translational displacement vector images are used to visualize displacement field patterns, which represent a vector field quantity equal to the variation of position vectors of material particles of the system as a result of environmental action (loading). The displacement resulting from part loading is important for a correct understanding of the way in which the part behaves.

Before you begin: The solution must be computed and the solution result must exist.
Related Topics
Updating Scenarios
Editing Images
Editing and Moving the Color Map

  1. Select the solution result.

  2. In the Pre-defined Image toolbar, click Displacement .

    The displacement image and its associated color map are displayed, and Translational displacement vector.1 appears in the specification tree under the selected solution result.

    By default, the displacement image is visualized using vector symbols. You can change this visualization by editing the image.