Isolating elements above/below stress or strain values (visualization)

[sbasude]

Hello,

I would like to isolate elements above or below certain stress/strain levels. This was easy to do in Hypermesh, where you can use a slider that controls which elements are seen by revealing clusters of elements based on the slider position. Is this possible in Abaqus 2018? I found section cutting but nothing like what I described. Thanks

 

[FEA way]

Yes, you can create a display group based on the range of values of selected output variable: Create Display Group --> Elements --> Result value.

 

[sbasude]

@FEA way, thanks so much. However, I tried doing this and clicking plot, but none of the elements are changing in view after I press plot.

 

[FEA way]

In the first window click Replace button. This way elements with stress between 40 and 3000 will be isolated from the rest. Unless all elements are in this range ...

 

[sbasude]

This worked!
Thanks so much.