The ability to export data enables you to write out selected time-history variables to an ASCII file or to an APDL array/table parameter, useful for passing data on to another program for further processing or to archive data in an easily retrievable format.
Exporting data from a time-history variable into a file is a two-step process:
Example 8.9: Exporting Data
NSOL,5,55,U,X STORE,MERGE ! Store UX at node 55 *GET,size,VARI,,NSETS *dim,UX55,array,size ! Create array parameter VGET,UX55(1),5 ! Store time-history data of variable 5 into ux55 *CFOPEN,disp,dat *VWRITE,UX55(1) ! Write array in given format to file "disp.dat" (6x,f12.6) *CFCLOSE