{"id":165397,"date":"2023-03-17T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/why-cant-i-change-the-number-of-contours-to-a-value-larger-than-9-with-the-contour-command\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:31:11","slug":"why-cant-i-change-the-number-of-contours-to-a-value-larger-than-9-with-the-contour-command","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/why-cant-i-change-the-number-of-contours-to-a-value-larger-than-9-with-the-contour-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t I change the number of contours to a value larger than 9 with the \/CONTOUR command?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how many contours are specified with \/CONTOUR, the actual number of contours that appear depends also on the device option set by the \/SHOW command. The X11 and WIN32 devices only support 9 contours.  For more than 9 contours, make sure you set your default device option to X11C if you are on a UNIX based system or WIN32C if you are running on Windows.  You can set these defaults in your startXX.ans file via:  \/SHOW,X11C \/CONTOUR,,100  or  \/SHOW,WIN32C \/CONTOUR,,100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-165397","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4431","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3\/15\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["2412"],"siebel_km_number":["132248"],"product_version":["17"],"km_published_date":["2001-10-10T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical APDL"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}