Contours are shown on visible surfaces of your model only; however, depending on the type of contour plot and the result options that you select, contour values might be computed based on all elements in the current display group or on all elements in the model. The reported minimum and maximum values might, therefore, occur at interior elements. You can display contours on the interior of your model by using display groups to show only the interior elements in the plot or by shrinking all elements about their centroids so that interior elements are visible between the bodies of exterior elements. The app computes the minimum and maximum values differently, according to the type of field output variable shown (nodal or element), the type of contour plot (quilt versus line or banded), and options you select. For contour plots of nodal field output variables, the limits are the maximum and minimum nodal values. For quilt-type contour plots, the limits are the maximum and minimum element face values. For line-, banded-, or isosurface-type contours of element field output variables, the minimum and maximum are determined by the extrapolated, averaged values as defined by the current averaging criteria. When the app computes the minimum and maximum over values averaged at the nodes, the limits are based on the values used to create the plot. In this case the legend bounds might vary as you vary the averaging criteria. You can also control which contour limits are used for each frame of a contour plot animation: the limits computed for the first and last frame, the limits computed for the current frame, the recomputed limits for each individual frame, or the limits computed for all frames in the animation. Computing limits based on all frames in the animation requires one full pass through the animation sequence to establish the contour limits used for subsequent passes through the animation. | |||||||