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[John Lyus]

Hello,

I am after some advice as I am struggling to find a fix for this error.

I have done an analysis on a large assembly and I want to to confirm my thoughts that the stress concentrations are more to do with the large mesh I needed to use to get the analysis to run.

So I created a submodel to use a fine mesh on and the results aren't showing the gradients of the equivallent stress. When you use the probe it does show the range of the stresses but it not ideal for my report not showing the varying contours

[peteroznewman]

Hello John,

Look at the Legend and notice that it has the words Custom Obsolete on it. That is the clue that the lengend is not showing the correct range of stress values.

Just right click on the Legend and select Reset All or Adjust to Visible and the numbers on the lengend will change to cover the full range of stress in the parts on the screen.

Here is a similar question answered.

[John Lyus]

Thank you for the quick response, 

I have managed to get rid of the custom obsolete but now there is just 1 contour.

Despite the data showing

[John Lyus]

Managed to remove Custom as well but still no results:

Which is due to the extremely high stress showing on the cut edges

When I manually over type the value to have a range that the majority of the stress are within, it changes to 2 colours:

[peteroznewman]

RIght click on the Legend and select Logarithmic Scale from the menu.

Right click on any of the colored boxes in the Legend: a + and – button will pop-up.  Click the + button many times to add more colored boxes.

Click on the line between dark blue and light blue and drag that line up to dynamically see the contours update.  Repeat for the line between red and orange but drag it down.

[John Lyus]

Thank you,

Changing it to logarithmic has given me the contours but strange that the base analysis doesn't require logarithmic to show the different gradations.