cut

   'cut' [<set>|<nod>] | [<pnt|nod> <pnt|nod> <pnt|nod>]
This keyword is used to define a cutting plane through elements to visualize internal results. The plane is either defined by three nodes or points, or by just one node if a vector dataset-entity was already selected. The cutting plane is then determined by the direction of the vector (displacements, worstPS, ..). The menu option ”Show Elements With Light” or the commands ”ucut”, ”view surf” or”view volu” will display the whole model again and will delete the plane. This command is intended for batch-mode. See ”qcut” for the cursor controlled command. The three nodes or points may be provided by specifying a set of either unordered or ordered type (a sequence).

The mesh strategy used by 'cut' and 'qcut' could produce element overlappings of the generated shell elements when the cut went very close under a very small angle along element borders. For the intended purpose of visualization of results it is of no significance but overlaping elements lead to wrong area calculations when using the ”area” command. It can optically be checked with "comp -qcut do" and "plot fb -qcut".