Use a Through Thickness () plot to display the variation of a layered shell quantity in its thickness direction at specified points. Add Color Expression and Filter subnodes as needed. Right-click a 1D Plot Group to add this plot type from More Plots submenu.

From the Source list, choose Solution or Cut Point 3D dataset. In case of Solution dataset, specify the evaluation positions on a layered shell in Position and Selection sections.

When Solution is selected as a Dataset, this section displays. Select Position: Selection (the default), or Point coordinates.

In case Selection option is chosen, select one or more geometric points from the Graphics window. Alternatively, select Point coordinates to specify the material coordinates of an array of points.

When Position is selected as a Selection, this section displays. Select Manual from the Selection list to choose geometry directly from the Graphics window. Select All to add the applicable geometry or any other predefined grouping.

The X-Axis Data section is same as that of Y-Axis Data section of a Line Graph.

For Parametric Sweep studies, for each pair of outer solutions or inner solutions, one line is plotted on the graph. For example, if there are 10 outer solutions and each outer solution has five inner solutions, then 50 lines are drawn. The number of inner solutions can vary between outer solutions.

Select Thickness coordinate from the Parameter list to visualize along the through-thickness direction of a layered shell, or select Expression to change the through-thickness coordinate expression. If Thickness coordinate is selected, you can choose an appropriate length unit from the Unit list. If Expression is selected, go to Expressions and Predefined Quantities.

Under Interface positions, choose an option from the Show interface positions list to enable display of horizontal lines to indicate the positions of the interfaces between layers:

For other settings, see Common Results Node Settings.

Under Interface positions, the following settings are available for the line style and color of the horizontal lines representing the interface positions:

From the Line list, choose a line style: Solid, Dotted (the default), Dashed, or Dashed-dot.

From the Color list, choose one of the predefined colors (default: Magenta), or choose Custom to define a custom color using the color palette that appears. If you choose Cycle or Cycle (reset), also choose Default (7 colors) or Long (19 colors) from the Color cycle list.

Select the Show legends check box to display the plotted expressions to the right of the plot. In plots where each line represents a certain time value, eigenvalue, or parameter value, these values are also displayed.

When Automatic is selected from the Legends list (the default), select or clear the Label, Point, Solution, Description, Expression, and Unit check boxes to control what to include in the automatic legends (by default it includes the point only). If Manual is selected from the Legends list, enter your own legend text into the table. If Evaluated is selected, you can use the eval function to create an evaluated legend text in the Legend field that include evaluated global expressions such as global parameters used in sweeps. For the numerical evaluation, you can control the precision in the Precision field (default: 3).

The Quality section in the through thickness plot is similar to the one in a Line Graph. The only difference is in the Smoothing, which can only be turned off (the default) or on compared to the Line Graph, in which you get more options.