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Property Status Form
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	Property Status Form
	
The purpose of the Property Status form is to provide a way to easily relate the current design variable values back to their corresponding physical property values. The table in the **Propery Status** panel provides the following column of information for each of the property values that are being designed for the currently selected configuration.

* **Type**: Type of property that is being designed by this DV*REL relation.
* **PID**: The property ID of the property
* **Field**: Which field on the physical property or material that is being designed.
* **Initial Value**: The initial value of the property at the beginning of the current iteration.
* **Current Value**: The current value of the property
* **Design ID**: The DESVAR ID that correpsonds to this value
* **DVP ID**: The DV*REL ID that corresponds to this value

To view information for a different configuration, select it from the **Configuration** pulldown. 

Attune also provides a way to visualize the change in property values as a contour on the FEM. To view how certain types of physical property values are changing in the current iteration, first select the desired property type in the **Type** pulldown, and then the desired field in the **Field** pulldown. Pressing the **Show** button will bring up a plot of the fem, with the change in value from initial to current plotted. Selecting new combinations of **Type** and **Show** and then selecting **Show** again will update the contour on the plot.