a slip system drawn inside a crystal shape: the slip plane through the centre with the slip direction as an arrow in it

Syntax

plot(cS, sS)

The slip plane and direction, red.

plot(cS, sS, faceColor='blue')

Another colour.

plotSlipSystem(cS, sS, label='b')

The arrow named at its tip.

Description

The plane is the section by the slip plane, as plotInnerFace draws it, the arrow the slip direction from the centre to the surface; several systems are drawn together. Draw the shape translucent first, plot(cS, faceAlpha=0.2), and hold the figure.

Input

`cS`	crystalShape
`sS`	slipSystem

Keywords

keyword	default	description
`faceColor`	`'red'`	the colour of the plane and the arrow
`faceAlpha`	`0.5`	the opacity of the plane
`edgeColor`	`'k'`	the colour of the edges of the plane
`lineWidth`	`0.8`	the width of the edges of the plane
`displayName`	`None`	the label of the plane in a legend
`label`	`None`	the text at the tip of the arrow (not on a map)

Output

`h`	the matplotlib collection of the slip planes

Example

Draw two pyramidal slip systems in a translucent magnesium crystal. The blue plane and arrow show an a-type system; the red ones show a c+a-type system. The lattice parameters are those of Mg-Magnesium.cif in the MATLAB example, in angstroms.

from mtex import crystalFrame, crystalShape, slipSystem, plot, hold
from matplotlib.pyplot import show

cs = crystalFrame('6/mmm', [3.20927, 3.20927, 5.21033], mineral='Magnesium')
cS = crystalShape.hex(cs)
aSlip = slipSystem.pyramidalA(cs)
caSlip = slipSystem.pyramidal2CA(cs)

plot(cS, faceAlpha=0.2)
hold(True)
plot(cS, aSlip, faceColor='blue')
plot(cS, caSlip, faceColor='red')
hold(False)
show()

Keep the first plot with hold(True) so that the slip planes and arrows are added to the same figure.

Example output for crystalShape.plotSlipSystem

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/crystalShape.plotSlipSystem_py.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX

@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

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