GGU-SLAB: "Materials legend" menu item

A legend with the slab materials will be displayed on your output sheet if you have clicked the "Show legend" check box. Using this menu item, you can alter the type of presentation or turn off the legend completely.

You can define and edit the position of the legend using the values "x" and "y". You control the size of the legend using "Font size". The fastest way to modify the position of the legend is to press the [F11] function key and then to pull the legend to the new position with the left mouse button pressed.

• "Background colour"
  Using this button you can define the background colour for the legend.

• "Legend coloured"
  The material colours are displayed in the legend. Otherwise, they will be numbered.

• "Automatic material colours"
  The materials are assigned colours automatically by the program. If the check box is not selected, the colours individually defined using the "Material colours" button will be adopted.

• "Material colours"
  You will see a dialog box, in which you can define your preferences. After clicking the button with the desired number, you can assign each soil layer a new number or reorganise using the "Material colours/Reorganise" command button. You can save your colour preferences to a file with "Material colours/Save" and use them for different systems by means of the "Material colours/Load" command button. In the lower group box you can also transfer the colour preferences to the Windows colour management dialog box, or vice versa, as user-defined colour preferences for example. You can read a further description by pressing the "Info" button.

The material colours specified using this menu item are - regardless of whether activated for the legend - always used for visualisation of the FEM mesh, assuming the "Coloured" check box was activated in the preferences (see menu item "FEM mesh/Preferences".