In CFD-Post, figures can be created by selecting Insert > Figure, or by selecting Copy to New Figure from the viewer shortcut menu (after right-clicking a blank area in the 3D Viewer). The names of views that you create are of the form "Figure m" by default, where m is an integer that results in a unique name.
A new figure gets its definition from the currently existing view or figure. The latter remains active so that subsequent view manipulations do not affect the new figure.
A change made to an object will affect all figures that show that object. This can result in an unwanted change to a figure after it has been created. In order to avoid this problem, you may select the Make copies of objects option that is available when creating a new figure. This causes all visible objects to be copied, and the new figure to use the copied objects rather than the original ones.
Any copied objects for a figure will appear in the tree view
under User Locations and Plots
> Local
Objects for FigureName
, where FigureName
is the name of the figure.