This section describes how you can customize the content and
appearance of free body cuts using settings in the Free Body Plot
Options dialog box.
You can open the Free Body Plot Options
dialog box by selecting OptionsFree
Body from the main menu bar of
the Visualization module of Abaqus/CAE.
The changes you make in the Free Body Plot Options
dialog box apply to all active free body cuts, including those displayed on
view cuts, in the current viewport only. Each viewport has separate free body
plot options, which provides greater flexibility in displaying free body cuts.
For example, you can display only the resultant force vectors for a model's
free body cuts in one viewport and display only the resultant moment vectors
for the same model and free body cuts in a different viewport.
You can also control the default settings that appear in the
Free Body Plot Options dialog box by editing the
Abaqus
environment file (abaqus_v6.env). For more information,
see
Environment File Settings.