3.4 Displaying material stacking directions

Product: Abaqus/CAE  

Benefits: You can now view the material stacking directions while assigning material orientations.

Description: Material stacking directions for solid and continuum shell elements are now visible while you edit the material orientation in the Property module. The material directions are displayed as white arrows on the elements of the selected regions, as shown in Figure 3–4.

Figure 3–4 Material stacking directions.

Note:  The selected regions must be meshed for Abaqus/CAE to display a stack direction.

Abaqus/CAE Usage: 
Property module:
    AssignMaterial Orientation
Reference:

Abaqus/CAE User's Guide