Boundary Conditions - Display

Good day,

If it’s not too much effort, I would like to propose that PrePoMax display the boundary conditions in a corner of the window similar to the below image on other commercial software.

This makes it very convenient when grabbing screenshots for report writing.

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This is already available. Check View —> Color Annotations —> BCs. But it would be also nice to be able to display BC symbols in results.

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Oh, I see. Neat; thank you.
Perhaps then just to include the values too?

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Yes, that could be a potential improvement. For now, you could of course manually rename the BCs to include some details in their names but only the following characters can be used in names: letters, digits, symbols: minus/underscore/parenthesis.

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If you will allow me, a further proposal on this same topic…

How about displaying Alphabetic letters to individuals Loads & BCs, so that it is easily distinguished between the different surfaces.

I include an example below comparing PrePoMax to a commercial software.

Perhaps even using different colours for different Loads & BCs ie Convection, radiation, temperature, flux, etc. (not shown below)

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Why not use different colors for each BC to distinguish between them?

If I add letters, where should I display letters on the model if many surfaces are selected?

Good point. Changing colours of each BC works. I had overlooked this.

I guess letters would help where there are multiple BCs on same surface, example a convection and a radiation BC, which is possible. In the case below, you will note that only one of the colours can be displayed.

I understand. In such overlapping cases, the color is not enough.