CS

 — 

Local coordinate systems.

NDIR

 — 

Nodal coordinate systems (on rotated nodes only).

ESYS

 — 

Element coordinate systems (element displays only).

LDIR

 — 

Line directions (line displays only).

LDIV

 — 

Controls the display of element divisions on lines.

ADIR

 — 

Area direction symbol (for keypoint, line, area and volume plots).

LAYR

 — 

Layer orientations (relative to the projected element x-axis) or fiber orientations in smeared reinforcing elements. Used only within an element display. Use KEY to specify the layer number.

ECON

 — 

Element mesh symbols on keypoints and lines.

DOT

 — 

Larger symbols displayed for node and keypoint locations. When Label = DOT, KEY = 1 by default.

XNOD

 — 

Extra node of surface or circuit elements.

FBCS

 — 

Force boundary condition scaling. Subsequent KEY value determines whether or not to scale the applied and derived forces/moments to the same maximum value.

DEFA

 — 

Resets the symbol keys so that Mechanical APDL displays none of the symbols controlled by the /PSYMB command. The value of the KEY field is ignored.

STAT

 — 

Prints the status of the settings of the symbol keys controlled by the /PSYMB command. The KEY field is ignored.

MARK

 — 

Controls the marker size (/GMARKER). When Label = MARK, KEY = 10 by default.

-1

 — 

Effective only if Label = LAYR and solid shape element display (/ESHAPE) is active. Orientation of all layers appears with the solid shape element display.

0

 — 

No symbol (default). If Label = LDIV, then KEY= 0 indicates that the displayed element divisions will correspond to the existing mesh (the word MESHED or EXISTING can also be substituted). Also, for Label = LDIV, if you execute any meshing command (such as AMESH or VMESH), KEY is set to 0 (MESHED) automatically. If Label = FBCS, then KEY= 0 indicates that boundary condition scaling will not be common. The applied and derived forces/moments will be scaled to their respective maximum values.

1

 — 

Include symbol. If Label = LDIV, then KEY = 1 indicates that the displayed line divisions will correspond to the value assigned by LESIZE (the word LESIZE can also be substituted). Also, for Label = LDIV, if you execute the LESIZE command, KEY is set to 1 (LESIZE) automatically. If Label = FBCS, then KEY= 1 indicates that boundary condition scaling will be common. The applied and derived forces/moments will be scaled to the same maximum value.

N

 — 

If Label = LAYR, then N is equal to the layer number. If Label = DOT, then N can be equal to 0,1,.....15, indicating the dot size. If Label = MARK, then N can be equal to 1,…..10, indicating the marker size. If Label = LDIV, then KEY = -1, indicates that no element divisions will be displayed (the word OFF can also be substituted).