Setting Fields Reporter Options

To set the Fields Reporter options:

  1. Click Tools > Options > General Options to open the Options window, displaying a hierarchical list of options.
  2. Click the + next to Reporter to expand the list and select Fields Reported to display the following list:
    • Animation
    • Mesh Plot
    • Streamline Plot
  3. On the Animation panel:
    1. Specify whether to Group Field Overlays by Type (default, yes).
    2. Set the default Phase Animation settings for Scalar Plots and Vector Plots.

    Each of these settings accepts values for From and To in degrees, and the number of Steps.

  4. On the Mesh Plot tab, in the Clipping of volume mesh plot section, choose the conditions under which the plot is updated dynamically while dragging the clip plane. Options are: Never, Always, and When number of mesh element is less than (default number is 50000).
  5. On the Streamline Plot panel:
    1. Set the Streamline drawing stopping criteria.
    2. Set the Streamline marker spacing for the Number of marker per bounding box diagonal. The default value is 100.