Attributes can also be added as subnodes to a plot to modify the plot’s behavior — Deformation (
) attributes deform a plot (to illustrate, for example, structural deformation) and
Translation (
) attributes to move a plot;
Color Expression (
) attributes modify the color of a plot; filtering to only include parts of the plot is available using the
Filter (
) attribute;
Selection (
) attributes limit the plot to a selected subset of the geometry; and
Export Expressions (
) attributes can add quantities to the data export for streamline, radiation pattern, and trajectories plots. Add a
Material Appearance (
) attribute to include material appearances in postprocessing plots or a
Transparency (
) attribute to display 3D plots and 2D plots using a height expression using transparency. A
Height Expression (
) attribute can also be added to some 2D plots. For volume and surface plots in 2D and 3D you can embed an
Image (
). You can add
Marker (
) and
Graph Marker (
) attributes to add markers for indicating minimum and maximum values, for example, to 2D and 3D plots and 1D graph plots, respectively.
Under Results (
) in the
Model Builder, right-click the
Plot Group node and select an option from the context menu to plot the graphs listed in
Table 21-11. Each plot group can have several plots combined to create a meaningful representation of the data.
When the plot type is defined, click the Plot button (
), press F8, or right-click the node and select
Plot. The plot displays in the window selected from the
Plot window list. To plot results in another window, right-click the plot group node or the plot node and select a plot window from the
Plot In submenu.
For plots in plot groups, you can right-click the plot node and choose Copy Plot Data to Clipboard (
). The plot data is then directly available on the clipboard so that it can be pasted into a document or spreadsheet without the need to add an
Export>Data node.
For 1D plots, you can right-click the plot node and choose Copy Plot Data to Table (
). The plot data is then available in a new
Table node and its associated
Table window.
For graph plots in 1D plot groups, you can get information, in a tooltip, about the x- and
y-coordinate values for the graph when hovering over it with the mouse. The tooltip also contains information about the line style, in the upper-left corner, and the time or parameter value, for example, that the graph represents, in the upper-right corner. The tooltip appears by default; click the
Enable Tooltip button (
) in the
Graphics window toolbar to disable it.
If desired, all plot nodes’ Settings windows can include an
Information section, which includes information about the plotting time, memory usage, and the number of points and elements in the plot. To include the
Information section, select the
Plot Information Section check box under
Results in the
Show More Options dialog box and then click
OK. The same information can also appear in the
Log window, if you first select the
Log plot information check box on the
Log and Messages page under
User Interface in the
Preferences dialog box and then click
OK.
) to visualize a dataset or plot.
) to create a customized plot of the function under 
