Selecting this menu item pops up a window which allows you to manage which material species to use in the plots you create.
The
Species
window should look similar to
Species window
when it pops up. The list of the
Active species
will contain entries if you have opened a file with materials containing material species.
The Species window allows you to manage which species in a material are plotted.
If you don't see a description for an item in this window, check in the Shared items section near the front of the chapter.
This scrolled list contains all of the material species in the problem. A toggle button appears next to each material species number, and the state of the toggle indicates whether the material species is active or not. When the toggle is "pushed in", the material species is active, and when it's "popped out", the material species is inactive. Only active species are plotted.
The first number in each row is the material itself, followed by the material's species, so you can easily turn off entire materials, rather than just their species, via the first toggle in each row.
Press this button to make all material species active. This is the default when MeshTV comes up. This is the quick way to make all your material species active, though you can also make species active by "pushing in" the toggle button next to the material species number.
Press this button to make all material species inactive. You can use this when you want most species to be inactive. First make them all inactive and then select the ones you want by clicking on them.