In general, the speed of postprocessing and graphical results display in the Visualization module is more than satisfactory for most models. However, it is often necessary to balance high performance levels with detailed results plotting. Depending on your postprocessing requirements, you may wish to modify the default display options at the expense of performance. Many options are available that can affect the speed of graphics display.
To maximize performance in the Visualization module, we recommend the following:
Cache results in memory during postprocessing to speed up the generation of images on the screen. See “Understanding results caching,” Section 24.5.4.
Use the texture-mapped contour method whenever possible. Likewise, avoid using display options that are not supported by the texture-mapped method: line-type contours, contour edges, CAXA or SAXA elements, or shrinking elements about their centroid. If such display options are used, ABAQUS/CAE will override the user setting for texture-mapped contours and use the slower tessellated method instead. See “Understanding how contours are rendered,” Section 26.1.2.
Be selective about the model labels and symbols that you choose to display. The more model entities that are drawn, the longer the screen refresh will take. This applies to element edges as well. See “Controlling the display of model entities,” Section 36.10.
Use a high results averaging threshold. The more contiguous the results are, the faster the contour display will be. See “Understanding result value averaging,” Section 24.5.2.
Do not create display groups based on result values. ABAQUS/CAE recomputes result-based display groups as each result frame is displayed, so using this type of display group degrades animation performance.
Do not use a remote display. This configuration of ABAQUS/CAE is not supported; its use is at the sole discretion of the user. Performance optimization can never be achieved using remote display.