These commands postprocess the results with the database processor. The commands are grouped by functionality.
Table 2.72: Setup
These POST1 commands put data into the database for postprocessing. | ||
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APPEND | Reads data from the results file and appends it to the database. | |
DESOL | Defines or modifies solution results at a node of an element. | |
DNSOL | Defines or modifies solution results at a node. | |
FILE | Specifies the data file where results are to be found. | |
HRCPLX | Computes and stores in the database the time-harmonic solution at a prescribed phase angle. | |
/POST1 | Enters the database results postprocessor. | |
RESCOMBINE | Reads results from local results files into the database after a distributed-memory parallel (DMP) solution. | |
RESET | Resets all POST1 or POST26 specifications to initial defaults. | |
SET | Defines the data set to be read from the results file. | |
SUBSET | Reads results for the selected portions of the model. |
Table 2.73: Controls
These POST1 commands control the calculations done for other commands. | ||
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AVPRIN | Specifies how principal and vector sums are to be calculated. | |
AVRES | Specifies how results data will be averaged when PowerGraphics is enabled. | |
/EFACET | Specifies the number of facets per element edge for PowerGraphics displays. | |
ERNORM | Controls error estimation calculations. | |
FORCE | Selects the element nodal force type for output. | |
INRES | Identifies the data to be retrieved from the results file. | |
LAYER | Specifies the element layer for which data are to be processed. | |
RSYS | Activates a coordinate system for printout or display of results. | |
SHELL | Selects a shell element or shell layer location for results output. |
Table 2.74: Results
These POST1 commands process results, such as degree-of-freedom results, nodal stresses, and element summable and nonsummable miscellaneous data. | ||
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NSORT | Sorts nodal data. | |
NUSORT | Restores original order for nodal data. | |
PLCINT | Plots the contour integral (CINT) result data. | |
PLCKSURF | Plots the Φ = 0 level set surface in an XFEM-based crack analysis | |
PLDISP | Displays the displaced structure. | |
PLESOL | Displays solution results as discontinuous element contours. | |
PLNSOL | Displays solution results as continuous element contours. | |
PLORB | Displays the orbital motion of a rotating structure undergoing vibration. | |
PRENERGY | Prints the total energies of a model. | |
PRORB | Prints the orbital motion characteristics of a rotating structure undergoing vibration. | |
PLVECT | Displays results as vectors. | |
PRCINT | Lists the contour integral (CINT) result data. | |
PRESOL | Prints the solution results for elements. | |
PRJSOL | Print joint element output. | |
PRNLD | Prints the summed element nodal loads. | |
PRNSOL | Prints the nodal solution results. | |
PRRFOR | Used with the FORCE command. Prints the constrained node reaction solution. | |
PRRSOL | Prints the constrained node reaction solution. | |
PRVECT | Prints results as vector magnitude and direction cosines. | |
SUMTYPE | Sets the type of summation to be used in the following load case operations. |
Table 2.75: Element Table
These POST1 commands operate with the element table, which in turn is used to process results stored for each element, such as average stresses, heat fluxes, etc. | ||
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DETAB | Modifies element table results in the database. | |
ESORT | Sorts the element table. | |
ETABLE | Fills a table of element values for further processing. | |
EUSORT | Restores original order of the element table. | |
PLETAB | Displays element table items. | |
PLLS | Displays element table items as contoured areas along elements. | |
PLVECT | Displays results as vectors. | |
PRETAB | Prints the element table items. | |
PRVECT | Prints results as vector magnitude and direction cosines. | |
SABS | Specifies absolute values for element table operations. | |
SADD | Forms an element table item by adding two existing items. | |
SALLOW | Defines the allowable stress table for safety factor calculations. | |
SEXP | Forms an element table item by exponentiating and multiplying. | |
SFACT | Enables safety factor or margin of safety calculations to be made. | |
SFCALC | Calculates the safety factor or margin of safety. | |
SMAX | Forms an element table item from the maximum of two other items. | |
SMIN | Forms an element table item from the minimum of two other items. | |
SMULT | Forms an element table item by multiplying two other items. | |
SSUM | Calculates and prints the sum of element table items. | |
TALLOW | Defines the temperature table for safety factor calculations. | |
VCROSS | Forms element table items from the cross product of two vectors. | |
VDOT | Forms an element table item from the dot product of two vectors. |
Table 2.76: Listing
These POST1 commands control printed listings of results. | ||
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/FORMAT | Specifies format controls for tables. | |
/HEADER | Sets page and table heading print controls. | |
IRLIST | Prints inertia relief summary table. | |
/PAGE | Defines the printout and screen page size. | |
PRERR | Prints SEPC and TEPC. | |
PRITER | Prints solution summary data. |
Table 2.77: Animation
These POST1 commands animate results. | ||
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ANCNTR | Produces an animated sequence of a contoured deformed shape. | |
ANCUT | Produces an animated sequence of Q-slices. | |
ANDATA | Produces a sequential contour animation over a range of results data. | |
ANDSCL | Produces an animated sequence of a deformed shape. | |
ANCYC | Applies a traveling wave animation to graphics data in a modal cyclic symmetry analysis. | |
ANDYNA | Produces an animated sequence of contour values through substeps. | |
/ANFILE | Saves or resumes an animation sequence to or from a file. | |
ANFLOW | Produces an animated sequence of a charged particle traveling in an electric or magnetic field. | |
ANHARM | Produces an animated sequence of time-harmonic results or complex mode shapes. | |
ANIM | Displays graphics data in animated form. | |
ANISOS | Produces an animated sequence of an isosurface. | |
ANMODE | Produces an animated sequence of a mode shape. | |
ANTIME | Generates a sequential contour animation over a range of time. | |
TRTIME | Defines the options used for the PLTRAC (charged particle trace) command. |
Table 2.78: Path Operations
These POST1 commands are used for path operations. | ||
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PADELE | Deletes a defined path. | |
PAGET | Writes current path information into an array variable. | |
PAPUT | Retrieves path information from an array variable. | |
PARESU | Restores previously saved paths from a file. | |
PASAVE | Saves selected paths to an external file. | |
PATH | Defines a path name and establishes parameters for the path. | |
PCALC | Forms additional labeled path items by operating on existing path items. | |
PCROSS | Calculates the cross product of two path vectors along the current path. | |
PDEF | Interpolates an item onto a path. | |
PDOT | Calculates the dot product of two path vectors along the current path. | |
PLPAGM | Displays path items along the path geometry. | |
PLPATH | Displays path items on a graph. | |
PLSECT | Displays membrane and membrane-plus-bending linearized stresses. | |
PMAP | Creates mapping of the path geometry by defining path interpolation division points. | |
PPATH | Defines a path by picking or defining nodes, or locations on the currently active working plane, or by entering specific coordinate locations. | |
PRANGE | Determines the path range. | |
PRPATH | Prints path items along a geometry path. | |
PRSECT | Calculates and prints linearized stresses along a section path. | |
PSEL | Selects a path or paths. | |
PVECT | Interpolates a set of items onto a path. |
Table 2.79: Surface Operations
These POST1 commands define an arbitrary surface and to develop results information for that surface. | ||
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SUCALC | Create new result data by operating on two existing result datasets on a given surface. | |
SUCR | Create a surface. | |
SUDEL | Delete geometry information as well as any mapped results for specified surface or for all selected surfaces. | |
SUEVAL | Perform operations on a mapped item and store result in a scalar parameter. | |
SUGET | Create and dimension an NPT row array parameter named PARM, where NPT is the number of geometry points in SurfName. | |
SUMAP | Map results onto selected surface(s). | |
SUPL | Plot specified SetName result data on all selected surfaces or on the specified surface. | |
SUPR | Print surface information. | |
SURESU | Resume surface definitions from a specified file. | |
SUSAVE | Save surface definitions and result items to a file. | |
SUSEL | Selects a subset of surfaces | |
SUVECT | Operate between two mapped result vectors. |
Table 2.80: Load Case Calculations
These POST1 commands are used for combining results from different load steps. | ||
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LCABS | Specifies absolute values for load case operations. | |
LCASE | Reads a load case into the database. | |
LCDEF | Creates a load case from a set of results on a results file. | |
LCFACT | Defines scale factors for load case operations. | |
LCFILE | Creates a load case from an existing load case file. | |
LCOPER | Performs load case operations. | |
LCSEL | Selects a subset of load cases. | |
LCSUM | Specifies whether to process nonsummable items in load case operations. | |
LCWRITE | Creates a load case by writing results to a load case file. | |
LCZERO | Zeroes the results portion of the database. | |
RAPPND | Appends results data from the database to the results file. |
Table 2.81: Magnetics Calculations
These POST1 commands are used for special purpose magnetics postprocessing. | ||
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CURR2D | Calculates current flow in a 2D conductor. | |
EMAGERR | Calculates the relative error in an electrostatic or electromagnetic field analysis. | |
EMF | Calculates the electromotive force (emf), or voltage drop along a predefined path. | |
EMFT | Summarizes electromagnetic forces and torques on a selected set of nodes. | |
FLUXV | Calculates the flux passing through a closed contour. | |
MMF | Calculates the magnetomotive force along a path. | |
PLF2D | Generates a contour line plot of equipotentials. | |
POWERH | Calculates the rms power loss in a conductor or lossy dielectric. | |
SENERGY | Determines the stored magnetic energy or co-energy. |
Table 2.83: Special Purpose
These POST1 commands are used for various special purposes. | ||
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BFINT | Activates the body force interpolation operation. | |
CBDOF | Activates cut boundary interpolation (for submodeling). | |
CMSFILE | Specifies the component mode synthesis (CMS) results files to include when plotting the mode shape of an assembly. | |
CYCCALC | Calculates results from a cyclic harmonic mode-superposition analysis using the specifications defined by CYCSPEC. | |
/CYCEXPAND | Graphically expands displacements, stresses and strains of a cyclically symmetric model partially or through the full 360 degrees. | |
CYCFILES | Specifies the data files where results are to be found for a cyclic symmetry mode-superposition harmonic analysis. | |
CYCPHASE | Provides tools for determining minimum and maximum possible result values from frequency couplets produced in a modal cyclic symmetry analysis. | |
CYCSPEC | Defines the set of result items for a subsequent CYCCALC command in postprocessing a cyclic harmonic mode-superposition analysis. | |
EXOPTION | Specifies the EXPROFILE options for the Mechanical APDL to Ansys CFX profile file transfer. | |
/EXPAND | Enables the creation of a larger graphic display than that which is represented by the actual finite element analysis model. | |
EXPAND | Displays the results of a modal cyclic symmetry analysis. | |
EXPROFILE | Exports interface loads to a CFX Profile file. | |
EXUNIT | Indicates units assumed for an interface load for Mechanical APDL to CFX transfer. | |
FSSPARM | Calculates reflection and transmission properties of a frequency selective surface. | |
FSUM | Sums the nodal force and moment contributions of elements. | |
HFANG | Defines or displays spatial angles of a spherical radiation surface for antenna parameter calculations. | |
HFSYM | Sets symmetry planes for the computation of high-frequency acoustic fields in the near and far field domains (beyond the finite element region). | |
MACOPT | Specifies modal assurance criterion (MAC) calculation options for RSTMAC. | |
MAXCYCMODE | Computes the maximum results value of cyclic mode pairs at the same frequency or the amplitude of a single complex mode. | |
MSOPT | Specifies solution options for a multistage cyclic symmetry analysis | |
NFORCE | Sums the nodal forces and moments of elements attached to nodes. | |
NLDPOST | Gets element component information from nonlinear diagnostic files. | |
PLAS | Plots a specified acoustic quantity during postprocessing of an acoustic analysis. | |
PLCAMP | Plots a Campbell diagram for applications involving rotating structure dynamics. | |
PLCFREQ | Plots the frequency response for the given CYCSPEC specification | |
PLCHIST | Plots a histogram of the frequency response of each sector for the given CYCSPEC specification. | |
PLFAR | Plots electric far fields and far field parameters. | |
PLMC | Plots the modal coordinates from a mode-superposition solution. | |
PLNEAR | Plots the electric field in the near zone exterior to the equivalent source surface. | |
PLZZ | Plots the interference diagram from a cyclic modal analysis. | |
PRAS | Prints a specified acoustic quantity during postprocessing of an acoustic analysis. | |
PRCAMP | Prints a Campbell diagram for applications involving rotating structure dynamics. | |
PRFAR | Prints electric far fields and far field parameters. | |
PRMC | Prints the modal coordinates from a mode-superposition solution. | |
PRNEAR | Prints the electric field in the near zone exterior to the equivalent source surface. | |
RESWRITE | Appends results data from the database to a results file in a top-down substructure analysis. | |
RMFLVEC | Writes eigenvectors of fluid nodes to a file for use in damping parameter extraction. | |
RSPLIT | Creates one or more results file(s) from the current results file based on subsets of elements. | |
SPOINT | Defines a point for moment summations. | |
SPMWRITE | Calculates state-space matrices and writes them to the .spm file. |
Table 2.84: Status
These POST1 commands are for use with the STAT command. | ||
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CALC | Specifies "Calculation settings" as the subsequent status topic. | |
DATADEF | Specifies "Directly defined data status" as the subsequent status topic. | |
DEFINE | Specifies "Data definition settings" as the subsequent status topic. | |
DISPLAY | Specifies "Display settings" as the subsequent status topic. | |
LCCALC | Specifies "Load case settings" as the subsequent status topic. | |
POINT | Specifies "Point flow tracing settings" as the subsequent status topic. | |
Specifies "Print settings" as the subsequent status topic. | ||
SORT | Specifies "Sort settings" as the subsequent status topic. | |
SPEC | Specifies "Miscellaneous specifications" as the subsequent status topic. |
Table 2.85: Failure Criteria
These POST1 commands are for use with the failure criteria. | ||
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FC | Provides failure criteria information and activates a data table to input temperature-dependent stress and strain limits. | |
FCCHECK | Checks both the strain and stress input criteria for all materials. | |
FCDELE | Deletes previously defined failure criterion data for the given material. | |
FCLIST | Lists the failure criteria that has been input. | |
FCTYP | Activates or removes failure-criteria types for postprocessing. |