Thickness plot with an option to specify number of contour

[mppkumar]

Would like to have an option in thickness plot diagnostic to specify number of contours. 

This helps in identify / distinguish least thickness areas and nominal thickness areas easily

[renan.melhado]

you can workaround by using a custom results.

For created this result you can use calc.vbs

'@

'@ DESCRIPTION
'@ Take the Standard Thickness Diagnostics Plot and convert it into a custom plot
'@
'@ SYNTAX
'@ CustomThickness
'@
'@ PARAMETERS
'@ none
'@
'@ DEPENDENCIES/LIMITATIONS
'@ Assumes a study file is open within synergy
'@ none
'@
'@ History
'@ Created DRA 9/9/2006
'@@
Option Explicit
'SetLocale("en-us")
Dim Synergy
Set Synergy = CreateObject("synergy.Synergy")
'Synergy.SetUnits "Metric"

Dim DiagnosisManager, PlotManager, Viewer
Dim Elems, TH, ARPlot, Plot

' Get Thickness diagnostics
Set Elems = Synergy.CreateIntegerArray()
Set TH = Synergy.CreateDoubleArray()
Set DiagnosisManager = Synergy.DiagnosisManager()
DiagnosisManager.GetThicknessDiagnosis 0.0, 10, Elems, TH
Set DiagnosisManager = Nothing
' Create user plot
Set PlotManager = Synergy.PlotManager()
Set ARPlot = PlotManager.CreateUserPlot()
ARPlot.SetDataType "ELDT"
ARPlot.SetName "Thickness"
ARPlot.SetDeptUnitName("mm")
ARPlot.AddScalarData 0.0, Elems, TH
ARPlot.Build
Set Viewer = Synergy.Viewer()
Set Plot = Viewer.GetActivePlot
Plot.SetNodalAveraging False
Plot.Regenerate

I think it can be a default result in fill analysis, because is very useful.

Best Regards,

Renan Melhado Mazza

[mppkumar]

Hi Renan Melhado Mazza

The macro you have shared is to create a thickness plot, which can be exported into MFR while sharing other results

My idea / suggestion would be to restrict the color shading from 256 to 7 (or 12) as per the user specified.

this will group the thickness regions (for ex) from 0 to 0.5mm will be in one color and 0.5mm to 1mm thickness will be in another color.. and so on...

this will help us to identify the low and high thickness regions easily

Thanks

M P Pradeep Kumar