## Chapter 4: Settings

Selecting Settings on the Navigation Bar displays the Plot Type Settings panel.

This panel lets you change settings for the various plot types that control how you view your model.

At the top of this panel, a pull-down menu lets you to select the plot type whose settings you wish to change :

You can change settings for the following plot types:

- Display

- Grid

- Materials

- Contour

- Velocity Vector

- Gauge Point

- Boundary

- Joins

- Axes

- Detonation

These settings can also be changed by pressing next to the option in the Plots panel.

The following additional settings can also be changed by pressing next to the option under Additional Components in the Plots panel.

- Eroded Nodes

- Unused Regions

- Polygons (2D only)

- Beam sections

- Shell thickness

- Legend

- Profile

- Mat. direction

- Marker

- Shell normals

- Node/Element

- Part Highlight

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