The toolbars contain convenient sets of tools for managing your
files, filtering object selection, and viewing your model.
Items in a toolbar are shortcuts to functions that are also
available from the main menu bar. By default,
Abaqus/CAE
displays all of the toolbars in a row underneath the main menu bar.
Abaqus/CAE
may place some toolbars in a second row depending on your display resolution
and the size of the main window.
You can change the location of a toolbar using the toolbar's grip, as
indicated in the above figure. Clicking and dragging the grip moves the toolbar
around the main window. If you release the toolbar grip while the toolbar is
over one of the four available docking regions of the main window (see
Figure 1),
Abaqus/CAE
“docks” the toolbar; a docked toolbar has no title bar and does not obstruct
any other portion of the main window.
If you release the toolbar grip while the toolbar is not near a docking
region,
Abaqus/CAE
creates a floating toolbar with a title bar. A floating toolbar obstructs other
items in the main window (see
Figure 2);
however, a floating toolbar can be positioned outside of the
Abaqus/CAE
main window.
Clicking mouse button 3 on a toolbar grip displays a menu that lets you
specify the location and format of the toolbar:
Select Top to dock the toolbar in the top
docking region.
Select Bottom to dock the toolbar in the
bottom docking region.
Select Left to dock the toolbar in the left
docking region.
Select Right to dock the toolbar in the right
docking region.
Select Float to change a docked toolbar into
a floating toolbar; this option is available only for docked toolbars.
Select Flip to change the orientation of a
floating toolbar from horizontal to vertical, or vice versa; this option is
available only for floating toolbars.
You can also hide toolbars and create custom toolbars that include shortcuts
to additional functions. For more information, see
The Customize toolset.
To obtain a short description of a tool in a toolbar, place the cursor over
that tool for a moment; a small box containing a description, or “tooltip,”
will appear. To obtain the name of a toolbar, place the cursor over the toolbar
grip for a moment.
The
Abaqus/CAE
toolbars contain the following functionality:
The Work Directories toolbar allows you to change the current working
directory. The list provided in the toolbar contains the five most recently
used work directories. For more information, see
Setting the work directory.
The
View Manipulation toolbar
allows you to specify different views of the model or plot. For example, you
can pan, rotate, or zoom the model or plot using these tools. For more
information, see
Manipulating the view and controlling perspective.
View
Options
The
View Options toolbar
allows you to specify whether or not perspective is applied to your model. For
more information, see
Controlling perspective.
Views
The
Views toolbar
allows you to apply a custom view to the model in the viewport. For more
information, see
Custom views.
The
Views toolbar
is not displayed by default.
Render
Style
The
Render Style toolbar
allows you to specify whether the wireframe, hidden line, or shaded render
style will be used to display your model. In
the Visualization module
the
Render Style toolbar
also includes the filled render style
tool. For more information, see
Choosing a render style.
Visible
Objects
The Visible Objects toolbar allows you to switch between displaying the
geometry of an
Abaqus/CAE
native part and the meshed representation of the same part, to toggle the
display of seeds on and off, and to toggle the display of the reference
representation on or off if the meshed representation and reference
representation exist. For more information, see
Displaying a native mesh,
What are mesh seeds?,
and
Understanding the reference representation.
Selection
The Selection toolbar allows you to enable or disable object selection by
toggling on the arrow icon. You can use the list to the right of the arrow to
limit the types of objects that you can select. The
Selection toolbar is available only when there are no
active procedures running in a viewport. For more information, see
Selecting objects before choosing a procedure.
Query
The
Query toolset
allows you to obtain information about the geometry and features of your model,
to probe model and X–Y plots for output data, and to
perform stress linearization on your results. For more information, see
The Query toolset;
Probing the model;
and
Calculating linearized stresses.
Display
Group
The
Display Group toolbar
allows you to selectively plot one or more model or output database items. For
example, you can create a display group that contains only the elements
belonging to specified sets in your model. For more information, see
Using display groups to display subsets of your model.
Color
Code
The
Color Code toolbar
allows you to customize the colors of items in the viewport and change the
degree of their translucency.
For color coding, you can create color mappings that assign unique colors to
different elements of a display. For example, when using a part instance color
mapping, each part instance in a model will appear as a different color. For
more information, see
Color coding geometry and mesh elements.
For translucency, you can click the arrow to the right of the
tool to reveal a slider, which you can drag to make the display
colors more transparent or more opaque. For more information, see
Changing the translucency.
View
Cut
The
View Cut toolbar
allows you to toggle the display of view cuts in modules other than
the Visualization module
and to customize their definition and display. For more information, see
Cutting through a model.
The
View Cut toolbar
is displayed by default; in
the Visualization module,
view cut options are available in the toolbox.
Field
Output
The Field Output toolbar allows you to control two aspects of field output
variable display:
You can select the field output variable that you want to display in the
current viewport. Selections include the type of field output variable
(Primary, Deformed, or
Symbol), the variable name, and if available, the
invariants and components for the selected primary variable.
For changes in variable type, you can control whether
Abaqus/CAE
automatically synchronizes the plot state in the current viewport with the new
selection of variable type. If the
tool is toggled on,
Abaqus/CAE
synchronizes the plot state if the newly selected field output variable
requires a change in plot state; if this option is toggled off, Abaqus/CAE
still updates the output variable displayed in the viewport but does not change
the plot state in the current viewport.
The selections in the toolbar are limited, but the
tool provides access to the Field Output dialog
box, if needed. For more information about the options in the toolbar, see
Using the field output toolbar.