Display Options

The Display Options dialog contains a variety of options for displaying information on the model, and customizing the display of the model and analysis results.

Display Options is available in the toolbar, the View menu and the default right-click menu. Many of the most commonly used display options are also available directly in the toolbar, as individual shortcuts (e.g. Stress Trajectories, Deformation Vectors etc.)

In the Phase2 Interpret program, the Display Options are organized into four categories: General, Stress, Groundwater and Other.

The Display Options include:

• Element Numbers

• Node Numbers

• Bolt Numbers

• Liner Numbers

• Joint Numbers

• Discretizations

• Boundaries

• Bolts

• Liners

• Restraints

• Distributed Loads

• Line Loads

• Stress Trajectories

• Failure Trajectories

• Elements

• Shrink Elements

• Shrink Contours

• Bolt Elements

• Deform Mesh

• Deform Contours

• Deform Boundaries

• Deformation Vectors

• Scale Factor

You will find Display Options to be a frequently used tool in Phase2 Interpret, and the user is encouraged to experiment with all of the options that are available. Many different combinations of options can be applied to the model for many different data interpretation purposes.

NOTES:

• The Display Options dialog works a little differently than a regular dialog. It is known as a "roll-up" dialog, and can be left up on the screen while performing other tasks. The "arrow" button in the upper right corner can be used to "roll-up" or "roll-down" the dialog, without closing it. This allows the user to minimize / maximize the dialog, to keep it out of the way when not needed.

• The dialog can also be minimized / maximized by double-clicking on the title bar of the dialog.

• A "roll-up" dialog is useful when working with multiple views, since the user can apply different options to different views, without closing the dialog.

• Display Options operates on a per view basis, so that if multiple views are open, each view can have its own set of Display Options applied.

• The default Display Options are in effect whenever a file is opened, or a New Window is created.