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PCL; Is there a PCL function which adjust FEM viewing to show location of some selected property eg. max Von Mises.

adam.narozniak
Hello! I would like Patran to automaticaly adjust FEM viewing (by rotation and view fit) to show max Von Mises. Is there already PCL function which does the job?
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    I've not seen this function in the GUI so I don't think there's a PCL function that does this either.
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    I have a partial answer that might be useful.
    If you are creating the plots with your own PCL then you have (or could get) the 5 result_ids that define the result being plotted. Given the result_ids you can call the res_utl_extract_nodal_results2 (or …_elem_.. ) function which has return arguments for the minloc and maxloc, which can be used to find the relevant IDs from the ids array.
     
    So knowing the max value is at a particular node (elem) you could tap into the shareware “Local View” utility (Utilities/view/Local View) as follows:
    If "node 18" was the node with the max value you can call:
     
    ui_exec_function("ajh_view_local","init")
    ajh_view_local.get_current_view()
    ajh_view_local.point("Node 18")
    ajh_view_local.apply_transforms()
     
    for an "element 20" the corresponding calls would be:
     
    ui_exec_function("ajh_view_local","init")
    ajh_view_local.get_current_view()
    ajh_view_local.element("Element 20")
    ajh_view_local.apply_transforms()
     
     
    in these examples I have hard coded the string argument for Node18 and Element 20.
     
    Sequence of calls is to:
    1 initialize ajh_view_local
    2 get current view settings
    3 specify the object to create a new local view coordinate system, use your node/element with max value
    4 shift the object to screen centre and set rotation about this object
     
    Then optionally you might want to orientate the view using the “local view” coordinate system
     
    ajh_view_local.front_view()
     
    best regards
    Arthur
     
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    How to make display along a vector ? Views based on CordX in Utilities does not do the job.
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