Plotting a Quantity Versus Adaptive Pass
Any quantity that can be plotted in the reporter may be plotted versus the adaptive solution pass, primarily to evaluate the convergence of the quantity versus the mesh.
- From the Results menu ( or from the Maxwell menu or right-click on Results on the Project tree), click Create <type> Report, and select Rectangular plot from the report type menu.
- In the Context section, select the AdaptivePass context for the Setup of interest. The Trace tab X value drop down list will contain an option to plot against Pass.
- Under the Trace tab, Y component section, specify the information to plot along the y-axis:
- In the Category list, click the type of information (for example, Expression Cache or Output Variable) to plot.
- In the Quantity list, click the value to plot.
- In the Function list, click the mathematical function of the quantity to plot.
- Value field displays the currently specified Quantity and Function. You can edit this field directly.
- Range Function button -- opens the Set Range Function dialog box. This applies currently specified Quantity and Function.
- On the Families tab, confirm or modify the sweep variables that will be plotted.
- Click New Report.
- Optionally, add another trace to the plot by following the procedure above, using Add Trace rather than New Report.
The Report dialog appears.
Note: Color indicates a valid
expression.
This creates a new report in Project tree, displays the report with the defined trace, and enables the Add Trace button on the Report dialog.
The function of the selected quantity will be plotted against the swept variable values or quantities you specified on an x-y graph. The plot is listed under Results in the project tree and the traces are listed under the plot. When you select the traces or plots, their properties are displayed in the Properties window. These properties can be edited directly to modify the plot.