Animate Tabs

The Animate Tabs option, available in the toolbar or the Data menu, will automatically "select" the Stage Tabs for you in consecutive order. This will give an "animated movie" display of results as the staging progresses.

The timing of the animation can be controlled by setting the Minimum Animation Time in the Stage Settings dialog. This controls the minimum delay between the display of results at each stage. However, note that the actual delay may be controlled by the speed of your computer and size of the model (number of finite elements), and can be longer than the Minimum Animation Time.

To exit the Animate Tabs mode:

• Press the Escape key!!! There may be some delay between pressing the Escape key and the stopping of the animation. This is normal, just wait while the program stops the animation.
• You can also re-select the Animate Tabs option to stop the animation. Although the "hourglass" icon will be displayed for the cursor, the program will still register mouse clicks.
• When you exit Animate Tabs mode, the program will always reset the view to the first Stage Tab, regardless of the stage at which the animation was stopped.