Thermal Steady State – keeping the same color scale

- October 31, 2018 at 11:24 pm
  
  Jedi_USC
  Subscriber
  
  When I run 2 thermal simulations and change a boundary condition, for example, the color red = 40 deg changes from color red = 30 deg.
  
  How can I keep the color scheme to be consistent between different simulations. I want to more easily compare between simulations using the colors.
- November 1, 2018 at 4:11 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello,
  
  You can check 'Colormap Options' in contours panel.
  
  You can also try to switch of Auto Range.
  
  Regards,
  
  Keyur
- November 1, 2018 at 4:43 pm
  
  Jedi_USC
  Subscriber
  
  Can you attach a screenshot of the menu, Keyur?
  
  I can't find "colormap options" or "auto range". I have Ansys 18.2.
- November 2, 2018 at 5:55 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  Are you running Fluent or ANSYS?
- November 7, 2018 at 11:02 am
  
  Karthik R
  Administrator
  
  Hello,
  
  If you are using steady state of transient thermal to model your problem, you can simply click on the top and bottom of the color legend (on the min and max values display). This should allow you to modify these min and max values. You can adjust the values according to the legend you want Ansys to display.
  
  If you are working with Ansys Fluent, please use the 'color map' options, as per Keyur's advise.
  
  Thanks,
  
  best regards,
  
  karthik
- November 7, 2018 at 7:04 pm
  
  Jedi_USC
  Subscriber
  
  I am running steady state thermal.
  
  So I need to manually set the min and max values of each simulation?
- November 8, 2018 at 8:37 pm
  
  Karthik R
  Administrator
  
  Hello,
  
  ANSYS steady state thermal will certainly give you an automatic range on your legend. But if you are planning on changing it, you could change the min and max values manually. This is allowed in the tool and is certainly one way to achieve your results.
  
  I hope this answers your question.
  
  Thank you.
  
  Best Regards,
  
  Karthik

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