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Under Quality, select a plot Resolution: Finer, Fine, Normal, Coarse, No refinement or Custom. A higher resolution means that elements are split into smaller patches during rendering. For Custom, enter a positive integer (default: 1) in the Element refinement field. A higher value means higher resolution. For new plots, you can also specify a preference for the resolution on the Results page in the Preferences dialog box.
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Custom refinement applies to the base data set. The number of elements in the model can therefore increase radically if the plot uses, for example, a revolve data set, since the refinement is applied to the solution data set.
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None: to plot elements independently.
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Inside material domains (the default): to smooth the quantity within domains shared by the same material but not across material boundaries.
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Internal: to smooth the quantity inside the geometry, but no smoothing takes place across borders between domains with different settings.
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Everywhere: to apply smoothing to the entire geometry.
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Expression: to use an expression to indicate where smoothing should occur. Enter an expression in the Expression field such that smoothing occurs where the expression is continuous. The default expression is dom, the domain variable, which is equivalent to the Internal smoothing. You can also — in a surface plot, for example — use material.domain, which is an indicator variable for domains that share the same material (see Material Group Indicator Variables) and is equivalent to the Inside material domains setting.
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Under Quality, the Recover default is Off because the accurate derivative recovery takes processing time. This recovery is a polynomial-preserving recovery that recovers fields with derivatives such as stresses or fluxes with a higher theoretical convergence than smoothing (see Polynomial-Preserving Derivative Recovery).
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Within domains: to perform recovery inside domains.
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Everywhere: to apply recovery to all domain boundaries.
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The Recover option only affects variables that are defined on domains.
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