Palette Tab

Color Palette

ProMan can use different color palettes to visualize simulation results. The color palette to be used for the current result can be specified on the Palette tab of the Display settings dialog. On this dialog there are six predefined palettes. Besides this, you can define your palette.

Further display options are related to the drawing of result pixels as wire frames and transparency. Transparency is (in contrast to previous versions of ProMan) related to bitmaps which are included in the project. Bitmaps are drawn above the data layer and thus transparency has to be used to make the layers behind the bitmaps visible on the screen.



Figure 1. The Display Settings dialog, Palette tab.
Note: A local palette can not be selected if a user-defined palette is specified to be used for all results on the Legend tab of the Global settings dialog.

The following table shows the predefined color palettes of ProMan:

Table 1. Predefined color palettes in  ProMan.
Mandatory Parameter Description
Rainbow (bright)
Rainbow (dark)
CMR
Greyscale
Flower Power
Green Meadow

A user-defined color palette can be created or edited via the Data menu: Data > Color Palette (user defined) > New color palette (user defined) or Data > Color Palette (user defined) > Edit Color Palette (user defined).



Figure 2. The User defined color palette dialog.

The color for the 14 thresholds can be defined by clicking on the colorized rectangles and saved to file afterward. The user-defined color palette can be loaded by defining the corresponding file path on the Legend tab of the Global settings dialog. This color palette can be used as a default palette for all results (optionally).