Hello Everyone,

There were some customer queries regarding the use of multiple view cuts in Abaqus/Viewer. I thought it will be a good information to share.

While using the multiple cut option in Abaqus/Viewer, it should be noted that the interaction between multiple cuts in the viewer is additive ( Boolean OR) , and not intersecting (Boolean AND) .  This is why the new cut is just added to the existing cut instead of really cutting it.

Consider the following cuboid model

If the below cut of the x plane is chosen , the following cut is obtained.

Now adding a Y-plane cut to this , it should not be expected that the y plane will cut the geometry shown in the above figure and will result in a view cut as shown below. This is not how the multiple view cut works in the Abaqus/Viewer. The figure shown below is just for illustration and not a result of a view cut operation.

Instead, the cutting operation is a Boolean OR operation and hence will add the entire part of the geometry cut by the Y plane to the existing view cut. The following view cut will be obtained when the below cut of the y-plane  is added.

This behavior should be taken into account while postprocessing Eulerian models using view cut. The Eulerian models utilizes the iso-cut functionality in the viewer . If an additional view cut , say a below cut along the y-plane,  is added then the entire part of the model below the y-plane will be added to the existing iso-cut instead of just cutting the isosurface view  cut.

Thanks,

Karthik