Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-1 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 SECTION 16 INSIGHT

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-2 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-3 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 THE INSIGHT APPLICATION Insight is a postprocessing program that is separate from MSC.Patran Results Click on the Insight button to access the Insight Application

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-4 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 MSC.PATRAN RESULTS vs INSIGHT POST – PROCESSING TOOLS Results Application vs. Insight Application Designed for result display and data manipulation Design for result display manipulation Results can be filtered by numerical value, physical properties, material properties, element properties, etc. Plot types (e.g. Contour, Fringe, Isosurface, Streamlines, etc.) are specified as tools which can be overlaid and animated in numerous ways Results may be displayed with respect to any coordinate system Allows display of multiple result types for multiple load cases Load case combination utilities available Not all MSC.Patran display and viewing options are available New results may be derived from existing results using algebraic operations User interface designed to allow quick interactive manipulation of plot attributes Modal and transient animation Multiple viewports Single viewport Multiple printing and image formats Postscript format only for printing

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-5 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 A tool is a device to help you visualize your resultant data There are 13 tool types Isosurface Streamlines Stream Surfaces Threshold Fringe Contour Element Tensor Vector Marker Value Deformation Cursor WHAT IS AN INSIGHT TOOL? Contour tool

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-6 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 ISOSURFACE TOOL Isosurfaces can be displayed as surfaces of constant result value or as coordinate planes with other tools posted on top of them Coordinate based isosurfaceResult based isosurface

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-7 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 CONTOUR TOOL Contour line plots denoting lines of constant result value may be displayed

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-8 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 INSIGHT CURSOR TOOL Display cursor selected result values on the screen and in a spreadsheet. Selected values can also be written to a file. Cursor results form show the maximum and minimum values and the IDs

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-9 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 INSIGHT CURSOR TOOL (Cont.) New or existing file may be specified New data can be selected to overwrite or be appended to the selected output file. Data may be previewed on the screen before it is written to the file Data file format may be specified and the data sorted Result values selected by the Cursor Tool can be written to a file

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-10 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 USING MULTIPLE INSIGHT TOOLS Insight Tools can be superimposed to aid in results evaluation. All tools shown above represent the variation of von Mises stress throughout the model

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-11 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 CREATING AN INSIGHT TOOL For each Insight Tool, you must specify; The action assigned to the tool (Create, Modify, Delete) The Tool type The Results Load Case and result type

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-12 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 CREATING AN ISOSURFACE TOOL Choose Create from the Action menu Select the Isosurface tool Accept the default Isosurface Name or specify your own Create the Isosurfaces At location within the model based on Result values Along specified coordinate axes By default, tools will be posted as they are created Superimpose the tools on a target type If selected, Tool will act on all posted groups Target the groups the tool will act upon Apply the specified values creating the tool

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-13 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 RESULTS SELECTION FOR AN ISOSURFACE Define the Result Isovalue range by specifying a minimum and maximum value Select the number of isosurfaces to exist in the defined Isovalue range Select a specific result type from the chosen load case Specify the layer to post-process, if applicable to the current result Selected result Transformation Method (e.g. Principal Component, Magnitude, etc.) Element result to node mapping selections Select Current Load Case

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-14 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 ISOSURFACE ATTRIBUTES Color assignments for the Isosurfaces (e.g. Mapped, Red, Yellow, etc.) Transparency setting (0=Opaque, 1=100% transparent) Clip at Isosurface controls the display of the models response in regions where it is less than ( ) the selected Result Isovalue range

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-15 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 INSIGHT ANIMATION Modal and transient animation can be performed in Insight Animation controls are found under Insight Control on the top menu bar All posted tools will be displayed during an animation, but only the tools with animation enabled will change from frame to frame Transient animation can be performed with respect to any global variable such as time, load case, or frequency Quick Access selection for Modal

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-16 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 TYPICAL INSIGHT ANIMATION Frame 5Frame 15 Frame 10 Frame 20

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-17 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 QUICK MODAL ANIMATION To perform a quick Modal Animation, select Insight Control/ Modal Animation Click onand then select the desired vector result Click onto create the animation frames

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-18 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 ANIMATION CONTROL SETUP Insight Control/Animation Control is used to define animation sequences pertaining to global variables (e.g. transient animation) and modal analysis in greater detail Click onthen select either: Animation Tool(s) – tools whose animation attributes have already been specified or Non-Animation Tool(s) – tools with no specified animation attributes Specify the number of animation frames

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-19 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 ANIMATION CONTROL SETUP (Cont.) Enable animation and select an Animation Type Animation Type Global Variable allows the animation of a tool with respect to any global variable Ramp allows animation of a tools associated dependent variable by multiplying its maximum value by a range of scale factors from 0 to 1 Sinusoidal animation applies a sine function (-1 < sine < 1) to the maximum value of the tools associated dependent variable

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-20 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 ANIMATION CONTROL Once the animation has started, you can pause and change the animation attributes Animation Method: Cycle:animation cycles in a circular manner (frame 1,2,…,max,1,2,…,max etc.) Bounce:animation cycles from max to min (frame 1,2,…,max,max-1, etc.) Once the animation is paused, it can be advanced forward one frame at a time Turn Reduced Rendering on to increase the animation speed To terminate the animation tool select the Clear button

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-21 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 INSIGHT DISPLAY CONTROL PREFERENCES/INSIGHT Models render style can be specified with the Default Model Display settings Free Edge display controls the rendering of entity borders Reduced Rendering lowers the graphic complexity of a tool (fringe contour lines) to reduce its render time Unavailable display options will be ghosted out. Quickpick and toolbar icons associated with these functions will not work.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-22 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 INSIGHT DISPLAY CONTROL (Cont.) INSIGHT CONTROL/POST/UNPOST TOOLS Post a set of previously created tools Highlight all desired tools Click on Apply Use Named Posting Options to group tools

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-23 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003 EXERCISE Perform Workshop 18 Post Processing With Insight in your exercise workbook. Perform Workshop 19 Connecting Rod Using 2D Elements in your exercise workbook.

Copyright ® 2000 MSC.Software Results S16-24 PAT301, Section 16, October 2003