Benutzerschnittstelle

• Intuitive, einfach anwendbare graphische Benutzerschnittstelle
• Symbolleisten und kontextsensitive Menüs
• Native Windowsanwendung
• Anpassbares GUI unter Unix
• Flexible Befehls- und Skriptsprache
• Online-Dokumentation
• Drag & drop von Dateien in die Anwendung mit automatischer Formaterkennung
• Kontextmenüs (rechts Maustaste) im Grafikfenster
• Auswahl von Teilergebnissen
• Advanced picking and elaborate feedback of Information on the model, results, part/material, and element properties

Schnittstellen, Import/Export

• Generische Dateiformate: VTF and MOVIE.BYU
• Ausgabe von Bildern in die Formate BMP, TIF, IRIS RGB, PostScript (Bitmap), PPM und VRML 2.0
• Erzeugung von MPEG, AVI und Animated GIF
• Erzeugung von VTF-Dateien für GLview Express und GLview 3D Plug-in
• Export von 2D-Plotdaten in eine Datei
• Import of custom plot data
• Ausdruck eines 2D-Plot oder von 3D-Darstellungen
• Direkter HTML-Export zum Internet Explorer

Interaktive Animationen

• Time domain and frequency domain (mode shape) animation of scalars, vectors, and displacements
• Viewpoint animation
• Real-time manipulation of models during animation
• Particle trace and cutting plane animation
• Interpolation between time steps during animation

Features

• Display of scalar and vector results
• 2D plotting of nodal/element results
• 2D plotting of scalar along user-defined lines
• Trace lines of vector results (node tracing)
• Extraction of element results through picking
• Rigid body transformations
• Advanced mirroring options with multiple planes
• Contour and legend control
• Logging of commands
• Scaling of model

Elements and Data Support

• Beams, triangles, quads, tetrahedrons, hexahedrons, pentahedrons, pyramids
• Eroded elements
• Adaptive meshes
• Unstructured grids
• Nodal and element results

Rendering

• High performance graphics suited for animation of large models
• Software and hardware rendering support using OpenGL
• Fixed viewpoint animation for 10-50% speedup
• Set optional point of rotation
• Perspective/orthographic projection
• Shading, flat and smooth shading (Gouraud shading)
• Lighting, arbitrary colors, multiple light sources, and directions
• Texture and environment mapping
• Anti-aliased lines
• Clipping planes (front and back) with autoclip
• Z-buffer
• Set transparent surfaces independently for each part

Results Display Options

• Polygon viewing by surfaces, lines, and points
• Outline, hidden line, outline mesh, overlaid mesh
• Filled contours (textured, plain, or shaded)
• Contour lines
• Undefined scalar values
• Deformed model
• Undeformed model as points
• Vector arrows (with fringe colors) and damping of vectors
• Filtering of vectors
• Multiple particle traces of volumetric data results
• Multiple cutting planes
• Iso-surface

Hardware Platforms

• Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP (Intel)
• Silicon Graphics (Irix 6.x)
• Compaq Tru64, Digital OSF/1 4.0
• Sun (Solaris 2.7 and above)
• HP (HP-UX 10.20 and above)
• IBM (AIX 4.3)
• Linux (kernel 2.4.18-3 or later, GNU GCC runtime environment version 2.96 or later, and XFree86 4.1.0)

Direct File Readers

• ABAQUS: Binary post file (.fil, .odb) (ODB support for Windows only)
• ANSYS: Binary results files (.rst,. rth and .rfl)
• FEMAP: ASCII neutral file (.neu)
• I-DEAS: ASCII universal file (.unv)
• LS-DYNA: State Database (d3plot), Time History File (d3thdt), ASCII plot files
• MSC.Marc ASCII (.t19) & binary (.t16)
• MSC.Nastran: Binary Output 2 files (.op2)
• NE/Nastran: Binary Output 2 files (.op2) and bulk data
• RADIOSS: Binary ModAnim file