Nastran Editor Results Legend Customisation

[gerrardhickson]

The problem starts with the fact that Nastran In-CAD results viewing is very slow - I've had analyses in the past that took up to 30 minutes to load a results view (on a proper CAD workstation btw). As a result, I've started using Nastran Editor for results viewing. In my current analysis results display in Nastran In-CAD takes almost 3 minutes per view change (results type, scale  change etc). The same analysis in Nastran Editor is almost instant.

However, Nastran Editor has a painfully limited legend editing functionality. Nastran In-CAD allows you to set upper and lower limits to the scale (shading out of range areas in a different colour) - which is extremely helpful for identifying regions which exceed allowable limits. This isn't possible in Nastran Editor.

Please enable the editing of upper and lower scale limits in Nastran Editor AND for those regions that fall outside this range, render them in a different colour (e.g. white or user customisable).

Related forum post: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/nastran-forum/editor-model-results-color-contour-customization/td-p/5...

[gerrardhickson]

I just thought I'd follow up on this. I've been working in Nastran Editor all day, and I just stumbled upon this feature! For future readers, If you navigate in the results browser (left window) to the result type you want - Shell Max Von Mises for example, right click and choose "Min/Max Values" you can select the range of the legend. A few pointers - The value you set isn't persistent when you change load cases or display types. BUT you can keep the "Contour Settings" window open, and just click "Display" when you re-fresh your view. Secondly, the colour doesn't display "White" or similar for values outside your desired range. SO, If you go to Setup> Default Settings>Color Bar, and set your upper (and lower if you choose) colour values to white (or some other colour) then the color bar will set vales higher than your upper limit to the upper colour - everything else will be coloured. Is this user friendly? No, not really. Does it do the job? Yeah, it does.