HyperLife supports 1D (or line) element results. Each 1D element has two corners
and a base (centroid) location for elemental results. HyperLife supports
contour colors for the base (centroid) location only. This means an element will have only one
color when the Use corner data option in the Contour panel is not selected. When the Use
corner data option is selected, the element contour color becomes gray. However, you can still
use the Query panel to query corner results.
For HyperMesh
Users
If you are familiar with HyperMesh, you know that it
contains a contour panel as well. The Contour panel in HyperLife processes
result values differently and more accurately than the HyperMesh
Contour panel. In the HyperMesh contour panel, the elemental
results are averaged to nodes and the averaged values are used for the colors and legend
display. By doing this, the Max/Min result values are averaged, thus lowering the Max values
in the legend. This may cause some confusion for HyperMesh users
when they use the Contour panel in HyperLife. To match a HyperMesh contour plot in HyperLife, verify that the
Use corner data option is deactivated, select the Simple averaging method without variation,
and use Analysis System for Resolved in. This is done because in HyperMesh, the results are always treated as scalars, so transformation
to other systems cannot be applied. When the Analysis System option is used, the original
values are extracted directly from the result file for averaging. Considering the extended
support of transformation and averaging methods in HyperLife, we recommend
using HyperLife for an accurate post-processing of results.