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Overview

Selecting the plots menu brings up a list of MeshTV plot types. Plots for which your data file has no data will be grayed out. If you can display a plot, pulling the mouse toward the right while holding down the left button will show you which variables are available. Release the mouse button when your cursor is over the variable you want to plot, and a new plot will appear in the Active plots list. Note that this menu will be grayed out (and inaccessible) until you open a file.

Available plot types are Block, Boundary , Contour , Filled Boundary , Label , Mesh , Pseudocolor , Surface , and Vector .

In the example shown in Plots menu , if you pulled to the right on the Contour entry, you would see a list of variables as in Contour variables , assuming you first opened the MeshTV sample data file, curv2d.silo.

Block plot

This plot displays a color-coded breakdown of the blocks, or domains, in a multiblock mesh. With the fill option off, it displays the boundaries between these blocks.

Boundary plot

This plot displays the boundaries between materials.

Contour plot

This plot displays the location of values for scalar variables like density or pressure, using lines for 2D plots and surfaces for 3D plots. In visualization terms, these plots are isosurfaces.

Filled boundary plot

This plot displays a different color for each material in the problem.

Label plot

This plot assigns numbers or strings to nodes and/or zones in the problem.

Mesh plot

This displays the problem mesh.

Pseudocolor plot

This plot uses color to show variable values in a problem.

Surface plot

This plot displays 2D information as a surface, using the value of the given variable for the height.

Vector plot

This plot displays vector variables.