Matlab Plot Scripts by Subject MODEL produces several output *.tmp ASCII files that are used in various combinations to produce analysis plots using Matlab. There are many such scripts, so it is useful to have their names echoed by subject area. To that end an alias file has been created. To turn on those aliases enter: source ~mech517/public_html/Copyrighted/Plot_subject_alias ; echo done That turns on the following alias commands: 1248_Plt 1D_Plt 2D_Plt 3D_Plt All_Plt Analytic Averaged BC_Plt Bare_Plt Beam_Plt Brick Colors Combine Contours Deformed Eigen_Plt Element Error_Plt Exact_Plt Explode Flags_Plt Flux_Plt Gradient Graphs Hidden Hlp_Subj (echo this file) Mesh_Plt New_Size Nodal Node_Pt Nodes On_Line On_X On_Y QP_Plt Quiver Results SCP_Plt Smoothed Stars Stresses Surface TISE Time_Plt Torsion True_Num Type_El Values Vectors Zoom Then, for example, you could learn about plots related to essential boundary conditions by entering BC_Plt, or if you are using more than one type of element you could enter Type_El which yields the path to scripts related to that subject: /home/mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/bare_color_el_types.m /home/mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/elem_type_3d_mesh_plot.m /home/mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/elem_type_3d_shrink.m /home/mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/element_type_mesh_plot.m /home/mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/element_type_mesh_shrink.m /home/mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/result_shrink_typ_surf.m Most scripts have defaults if you provide no arguments. But if you want to see the argument list you can look at the source file. For example, the Unix "head" command lists the first few lines at the head of a file so entering: head ~mech517/public_html/Matlab_Plots/element_type_mesh_plot.m gives: function element_type_mesh_plot (Type, inc_e, inc_p) % Program to plot 2-D FE meshes by element type number % If Type = 0, plot all elements, else only Type % If inc_ < 0 show no numbers, = 0 show max of 10 % > 0 use given increment in plotting numbers so you can see that you have the option to plot all types, or to select a specific type number. Also you can control the display of the element (inc_e) and node (inc_p) numbers. For large meshes you want a large increment or none at all to avoid cluttering the plots. For small meshes, or debugging, you may want to see all element and node numbers (inc_e=1=inc_p). ----------------------- end -------------------------------------