Design Visualiser

Your whole structure, answering back. Open the .dys model file from any completed design run and explore the results in three dimensions: hot spots, sections, individual elements.

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Real footage: rotating the model, applying utilisation contours and tuning the plot range, live in the Design Visualiser.

Why visualise

Find the hot spots.
Tell the story.

The Design Visualiser is a light-weight tool that runs smoothly on full production models. Review results in detail, focus on the areas that matter, and tailor provided reinforcement to better suit the design requirements. Then capture the visuals that sell the story to colleagues, clients and reports.

Filter by value

Show only the elements above (or below) any threshold: utilisation, required reinforcement, any plot variable in the file.

Section and cut

Slice through the model with manual sections and clipping to inspect internal walls and buried slabs.

Inspect any element

Click any element for its full data row: nodes, thickness, required and provided reinforcement, utilisation ratios.

Colour your way

Multiple colour schemes and adjustable plot ranges, with out-of-range and design-error values clearly flagged.

View customisation

Set up the exact view you need and capture impressive visualisations for design reports and presentations.

Open format

Reads the open, human-readable .dys files produced by every Ultimate design run. Transparent like everything else we make.

In pictures

The same model, three ways.

One .dys file carries the geometry, every plot variable and every element’s data. Flip between views in seconds.

Value clipping filtering out about half of a nuclear island model to reveal the heavily reinforced elements inside — Value clipping hides everything below a threshold, so the elements that matter stand out.

Required reinforcement contours across a nuclear island model, with lighting on — Any design variable as contours, with adjustable range and colour scheme.

The Design Visualiser with the panel browser, contours and three selected elements listed in the data inspector — Click any element and the data inspector shows its full results row.

In the workflow

Design. Visualise. Adjust. Rerun.

All Ultimate editions produce a .dys 3D model file automatically with every completed run. Review it in the Visualiser, adjust your inputs or provided reinforcement, and rerun. The whole loop takes minutes.

Included with Shell Element Designer Ultimate
Runs on integrated or dedicated graphics (OpenGL 3.2+)
Handles full production models smoothly

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Required reinforcement contours on a nuclear island model, with the selected element ringed

Design results · raw data

Element ID	reqAsyT (mm²/m)	URAsyT	reqAsxT (mm²/m)	URAsxT
73582	6126.40	0.454	4423.29	0.328
52084	4696.18	0.348	2916.59	0.216
116469	2441.43	0.181	2633.17	0.195

Real rows from a nuclear island design run: every element on the model links to its full results.

See your results in 3D.

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