General

Access the General graphical options by clicking the Model icon in the View Settings section of the View ribbon and selecting the General tab shown below.

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You can specify that Nodes are/are not displayed, and you can include the joint label.

You can display Boundary Conditions and as part of this option you can display any spring stiffnesses that you have specified.

Clicking the Soil Regions slider will turn on the display of user-entered soil regions in the current model view. The Labeling drop-down can be used to turn on the display of soil region labels and to choose the labeling type. The choices are None, Soil Definition and Subgrade Modulus. Use the Label Location drop-down to specify the location of your label. Options include: Centered, +X, -X, +Z and -Z.

Check the Show Default Soil Definition in 3D View check box to display the default soil definition in the 3D View window. Then, specify the location using the Location drop-down. Options include: Top Center, Bottom Left and Bottom Right. The Display Info drop-down can be used to select the soil information displayed. Options include: Label only, or Label + Soil Data.

Clicking the Pedestals/Posts slider will turn on the display of pedestals/posts. The Labeling drop-down can be used to choose the labeling type. The choices are None, Label and Local Axes.

With the Wireframe option selected, you can include textual information alongside each element. The Labeling drop-down list provides the choices you have as to what information is displayed alongside each element.

When the Color Coded option is selected, pedestals/posts are plotted with different colors that are mapped in a key shown in the upper-right corner of the model view. The Color Basis drop-down list provides the choices you have as to how the colors are assigned to each element. Options include: Uniform, or Material. The color-coded elements may be presented with varying degrees of Transparency, with 100% transparency meaning completely see through, and 0% indicating completely solid. The transparency is controlled by clicking and dragging the slider bar until the desired percentage is displayed at the end of the slider bar.

If the Rendered option is selected, true to scale representations of the pedestals/posts will be drawn. The Transparency setting described above for the Color Coded option also applies to the Rendered option.