Visualize direction of weakness

FLAC3D
1

Is it possible to visualize the direction of weakness in a plot when applying the ubiquitous-joint model?
I help myself currently with visualizing a cutting plane. but are the dip direction and dip convention of cutting planes in a plot following the same convention as setting up the
zone property dip [dipping] dip-direction [direction] ?

2

Yes, the cut-plane follows the same convention as the dip and dip-direction setting in the ubiquitous-joint model.

We can write and run a small FISH function to define user-defined vectors at zone centroids and their directions are along the zone ubiquitous joint normal directions:

fish define ubiDir
    loop foreach local z zone.list
        if zone.model(z) == "ubiquitous-joint"
            local zp = data.vector.create(zone.pos(z))
            data.vector.value(zp) = zone.prop(z,"normal")
        endif
    endloop
end
[ubiDir]

then plot User Defined Data → Vectors, In the plotitem attribute tag set Draw As “Disks” rather than Arrows:

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3

Nice! Thank you, will give that a go.