Abaqus Release Notes  


4.17 Control over individual vector display in continuum shell composite layups

Product: Abaqus/CAE  

Benefits: You can now toggle the display of individual direction vectors for a composite layup.

Description: Abaqus/CAE now enables you to display or hide individual direction vectors for the plies in a composite layup. You can display the 1-direction from the layup orientation to show the rotation of the ply's material directions. Figure 4–6 shows an example of the new functionality on a simple composite layup.

Figure 4–6 Display of individual direction vectors on a composite layup.

Abaqus/CAE Usage: 
Property module:
    CompositeCreate: Display tabbed page: Show orientation directions options
Reference:

Abaqus/CAE User's Manual