Creating coordinate systems during postprocessing

You can create local (or “session”) coordinate systems in the Visualization module for postprocessing purposes: field output results can be transformed to a specified user-defined coordinate system. These user-defined coordinate systems can be fixed in space or move with specified nodes as the model deforms. Session coordinate systems persist for the duration of your session only and are available only for a single output database; however, you can save session coordinate systems to their associated output database file for use in subsequent Abaqus sessions.

You can rename or delete session coordinate systems from the Coordinate System Manager or the Session Coordinate Systems container in the Results Tree for the current output database. You can also display, highlight, and hide individual coordinate systems by using their shortcuts from the Results Tree or by adding them to display groups. See Managing display groups, for more information about adding both session-based and output database–based coordinate systems to display groups.

For information on controlling the display of all coordinate systems during postprocessing, see Controlling the display of model entities. For information on controlling the display of individual coordinate systems during postprocessing, see Managing display groups. For information on results transformation, see Transforming results into a new coordinate system and Creating field output by operating on fields.


In this section:

Methods for creating a coordinate system
Creating a fixed coordinate system
Creating a coordinate system following three nodes
Creating a coordinate system following three nodes on a circle
Creating a coordinate system following a single node
Saving a coordinate system to an output database file