IES VisualAnalysis User's Guide
Working in Result View
The Result View is your primary access point for graphical and numerical analysis results. You will use this view to see analysis results graphically. It provides filters, legends, and images to help you find the information you need quickly. It also works well as a starting point for generating printed reports of selected objects. A Result View shows the results of one result case at a time. In the advanced level of VisualAnalysis, you will also have the ability to view envelope (or extreme) results.
Result Views can be used as interactive or printed reports themselves. Use to see how a Result View will look when printed.
Analysis happens automatically on a background-thread when the CPU has 'spare time', whenever you make changes in your model. Switch to a Result View to see the results, or view the status if the results are not read. Double-click on the progress text at the bottom of the window (status bar) to get more detailed information about background processing and progress. Most models will analyze in a few minutes or less, if you are waiting long times for analysis, consider the analysis performance options available.
Use the tab of to determine which results are displayed. You can toggle the displaced shape, on-frame diagrams, or show color contours. You can include extreme force (or displacement or stress) labels, as well as object names and some properties. The filter will help you see only the information you need, while hiding that which is not important. If you turn on the undisplaced shape, you will get a to control how that is shown.
On the tab of Project Manager, use the Results option under Members or Plates to change the types of results to display. These include displacements, forces, and stresses.
Choosing Diagram from the Graphics drop down list under the Filter tab of Project Manager will display on-frame member graphs. The Selected Members Only parameter can be used to show result diagrams exclusively on selected members. The parameter also scales the diagrams accordingly.
Legends are small windows that float in the Result View, when enabled. This is useful for interpreting the colors used in plots and for finding the extreme values for all objects or selected objects when diagrams are shown. Members and plates each have a separate legend and they can be turned on or off independently. These legends may be dragged to any position within the window, and they are included if you print the window.
The legend may display one or more "Range Controls". These controls will allow you to filter the Result View to show only results in a specified range of values. To restrict the range, Drag the top or bottom arrow with the mouse.
You can create a detailed moment, shear and deflection diagrams using the Member Graph command. You may select one member or a chain of multiple member elements (that form a straight line) to graph. For moving load results, you can also create influence line graphs for nodes or members.
Plate result diagrams for moment, shear, displacement, etc. are available in the Analysis Results view. Left-click and drag a line across the slab to view the diagram at the line's location for the current result type, or right-click and select 'Show Plate Result Diagram' from the context menu to launch the dialog box. The result type, result plane, and the start and end locations for the diagram can be adjusted within the dialog. Note that the locations for the slice will persist within one session of VisualAnalysis. This allows the dialog to be closed to select a different result case or to modify the model without losing the adjustments that were made in the dialog. To include the diagram in the report, use the 'Copy' button to copy the plot to the clipboard, which can then be pasted into the report.
The tab of is used to quickly get a feel for the Extreme Absolute, Maximum positive, or Minimum negative value of each result for the current result case. You will find a Statics Check for each direction, information about your model's self-weight and center of gravity, and summary information for dynamic results. The Result tab is dynamic, based on the selection state in the active Result View, so you can use it to quickly get information about a specific element or node.
The Help Pane at the bottom of shows result tips if you hold your mouse over an object (no need to select it!).
The tool shows various result tables just like you would see in a report, these tables can be sorted on any column by clicking the column header.
While viewing a Result View, you can right-click and choose the command from the context menu. You can use this to see how the structure deflects, or how member forces change. If you animate a time history result case, we animate all the time steps available. To cancel the animation, right-click the mouse in the view. If you display the window title, you can see the time step changing during the animation.
See Model View for tips on printing graphics.