Result Name: Displays list of available results for which the data can be extracted. These include Displacement, Strain, Stress, etc.

Components: Displays list of components for selected result. For example, UX, UY, UZ for displacement.

Entity: Provides user the choice to apply the scoping to the results based on Named Selections, Element Types, Material IDs, or all.

Entity Selection: Provides list of available options for the chosen Entity Scoping.

Load step: List of available load steps. User can choose to get the data for a particular load step, for the first step, for the last step, or for all steps.

Sub step: List of available sub steps for the selected Load step.

Over Time: Evaluates minimum and maximum by time over all the entities of the selected field.

Over Field: Evaluates the component-wise minimum and maximum over the field.

Additional data of Ansys binary file is shown in TreeView.

Solution: Displays all solutions that are stored inside the file. These can be for example, load cases, time steps or modes. You can select a single solution to extract or all solutions at once. If the labels of the solutions change over different evaluations, you can choose to extract the first or last out of them.

Solution Kind: Declares the kind of solution to extract. The following kinds are supported:

The available selection depends on the imported file. Only solutions available in the file can be selected. If the file belongs to a modal analysis but a *.MODE file does not exist, a warning is displayed.

Extraction Type: Selects which component (for example, stress or rotation) to extract.

Preselection: Allows you to narrow the various extractable information using a specific selection type. This can be a material or an element routine. If a ds.dat file exists in the directory of the Ansys result file, named values can also be used as preselection. If you select All, all the nodes or elements are considered.

Selection: Allows you to select the name of material, element routine or named values based on the preselection.

Ranges: If the custom check box is cleared, preselection is used to define the elements or nodes results are extracted from. This can be necessary if mesh changes over different evaluations. If the custom check box is selected, you can define the elements or nodes that are extracted, allowing you to use the preselected items. Select them on the left-hand side and click >> to move them to the right-hand side. To define an element or node set, click + and enter the bound numbers.

To remove ranges, select them and click -.

Sets the node to extract data from if elemental results are selected.

If selected, additional data of the Ansys binary file is shown in a tree view.