Relative Displacement
Allows you to transform vector results from a time history or animation result files according to a coordinate system defined by three nodes from the same result file.
Select
to display the Relative Displacement browser tab.This tool allows you to see the relative displacements in the higher sampling rate normally provided by time history results.
- File type
- From the drop-down menu, select a supported file type.
- Radioss - TH
- LS-DYNA - nodout
- LS-DYNA - d3plot
- LS-DYNA - binout
- PAM-CRASH - THP
- Radioss - A001
- PAM-CRASH - DSY
- Hyper 3D - H3D
- File name
- After selecting a file type, use the file browser button to locate your file and click Load.
- Loaded files
- If you load another supported file type from the Build Plots panel, that file is also displayed on a drop-down list in this field, along with the file you loaded directly from the browser tab. If you select the file you loaded from the Build Plots panel, the results from that file are automatically populated in the Relative Displacement browser tab and you can then plot the displacement using those results.
- Ref coordinate system
- From the Plane Type drop-down menu, select OXY, OYZ, or OZX as your coordinate system.
- Result request
- Select the point for which you want to plot the relative displacement with respect to the three points you selected in the reference coordinate system section.
- Result component
- Select one of the following options to plot the X, Y, Z, or relative
displacement type:
- X Displacement
- Y Displacement
- Z Displacement
- Relative Displacement
- Plot window
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- New Plot
- Plots your results in a new plot.
- Existing Plot
- Plots your results in an existing plot. If you select this option, the Existing HG Clients in Session menu is displayed, which allows you to select the existing page and window that you want to plot your results to.
- Plot
- Click Plot to plot your results.
- Close
- Click Close to close the browser tab.