Generating Images

This task shows how to generate images from a given solution.
Images can be generated in accordance with the Case type.

Open the sample26.CATAnalysis document from the samples directory.

  1. Click Generate Image in the Results toolbar.

    The Image Generation dialog box appears.

    • Available Images: lets you select the type of image you want to visualize.
      You can select several images. To do this, press the Ctrl key and select in sequence the desired images.

      Available images depend on the current case type.

      Case solution type

      Available image

      Static Case
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      Frequency Case*
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      Free Frequency Case
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      Buckling Case
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude

      Combined Case
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      Static Constrained Mode
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      Harmonic Dynamic Response Case
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      Transient Dynamic Response Case
      • Deformed Mesh
      • Translational displacement magnitude
      • Von Mises Stress (nodal value)

      *For the Frequency Case, the mode shapes are arbitrarily normalized displacements. In this case, the images of stress and energy results give only tendencies related to these mode shapes.

      • Deformed Mesh

      • Translational displacement magnitude: Iso-value image of the nodal translation displacements magnitude

      • Von Mises Stress (nodal values): Iso-value image of nodal Von Mises stress

    • Image name: lets you filter the available images according to the name.
      You can click the Image Name menu to change the order of the list.
      You can use the * symbol. For example: *disp* lets you filter all the images that contain the string disp.

    • Physical Type: lets you filter the available images according to the physical type.

    • Sub Types: lets you filter the available images according to the sub-types.

    You can also decide to display or hide the physical type and sub-type information in the Image Generation dialog box.
    To do this, right-click the bar and select the desired contextual menu.

    • Occurrences: lets you select the current occurrence you want to visualize.

      • This option is only available for the multi-occurrence analysis solutions.

      • Multi-selection of occurrences is available. An image will be generated for each selected occurrences (if you select three occurrences you will then generate three images).
        To do this, you can either:

        • enter the list of the desired occurrences.
          If you enter 1,6-8 as Occurrences values, the selected occurrences are: 1, 6, 7 and 8.

        • or click the ... button, press and hold down the Ctrl key and select the desired occurrences.

    • Deactivate existing images: lets you deactivate the display of all the images you have previously generated.

  2. Select the type of the image you want to generate.

  3. Click OK.

    The image visualization appears, and its feature appears in the specification tree.