Displaying the Fiber Direction

Select a ply.
No producibility feature is required for the selected ply.
Pick a point inside the ply boundaries.
Select Theoretical fiber orientations.
The long and blue solid axis corresponds to the primary fiber direction, and the short and red solid axis to the 90 degrees off angle.
Select Rosette transfer.
The green dotted axis corresponds to the X-axis of the rosette, and the white dotted axis to the Y-axis.
Select both options.
For a bi-directional material

For an uni-directional material, only the X-axis is displayed.
Click Keep to create the lines corresponding to the displayed axes.
Select the Automatically aggregate geometry under selected ply check box to create the datum lines under the ply.