Specifying the display of selected plies of a conventional shell composite layup

You can highlight selected plies and display the ply or layup orientation, including orientation vectors.

  1. From the Composite Layup editor, click the Display tab.
  2. Choose how Abaqus/CAE highlights the plies that you selected in the ply table:

    • Choose On to highlight the selected plies.

    • Choose Off to stop highlighting the selected plies. If you have a large number of plies in your model, you may want to turn off highlighting to increase performance.

  3. Choose which orientation Abaqus/CAE displays on the selected plies:

    • Choose Ply to display the ply orientation on the selected plies.

    • Choose Layup to display the layup orientation on the selected plies.

    • Choose None to stop displaying an orientation.

  4. Specify which orientation vectors you want to display on the selected plies. You can toggle the display of vectors in the 1-direction, the 2-direction, and the 3- (or normal) direction, as well as the reference direction that shows the 1-direction before rotation of the ply's material directions.