Context:
You can also obtain a node's data by entering its node label directly, and
you can obtain data for all the nodes included in a selected display group.
These methods enable you to probe nodal data without positioning the cursor
over its location in the model plot.
When you add a node to the data table, you can toggle on the check box for
that row to display a probe annotation in the viewport for that node, or you
can toggle on the check box in the header row to display probe annotations for
all selected nodes. Probe annotations display the node's label and the results
at the node for the current field output variable. You can customize the font
and color of the annotation text.
To help locate nodes in the viewport, you may want to produce a model plot
with node symbols visible before using the
Query toolset.
For more information, see
Customizing node symbols.
Locate the Probe Values dialog box.
In the Visualization module toolbox, click
. The Probe Values dialog box appears.
Select the step, frame, field output variable, and result options
governing the probe data and results
Abaqus/CAE
will display. If you are probing data from the current model database, frame
selections are not available, and your selection of field output variable is an
attribute from the model displayed in the current viewport.
In the Probe Values dialog box, the
Field Output field identifies the current step, frame, and
field output variable.
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To change the step or frame, click
.
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To change the field output variable, click
.
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To change the result options, select
from the main menu.
In the Probe Values portion of the dialog box, do
the following:
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Click the Probe arrow, and select
Nodes.
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If the current primary output variable is a tensor or vector
variable, click the Components arrow and do either of the
following:
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For tensor variables choose Selected to
display only the selected component of the variable, All
Direct to include all direct components of the tensor variable in
the query, or All Principals to include all principal
invariants of the tensor variable in the query.
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For vector variables choose Selected to
display only the selected component of the variable or All
to include all components of the vector tensor variable in the query.
Note:
If you choose the All Direct or All
Principals option for tensor variables, the results averaging option
Compute scalars before averaging is not valid; the scalars
or invariants are always computed after averaging.
The types of node information available are displayed in the columns
of the data table.
Click mouse button 3 anywhere in the data table, select Edit
Visible Columns from the list that appears, and toggle on the node
information types that you want to display as columns in the data table.
When a desired information type is toggled on,
Abaqus/CAE
displays that type of data as a column in the data table. However, all columns,
visible or not, are included in the probe values output file.
Note:
Field output is available only if the current primary variable is an
element-based variable, such as stress or strain.
To specify the nodes that you want to probe, choose Select
from viewport, Key-in label, or
Select a display group, and use one of the following
techniques:
Select the nodes directly from the
viewport:
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Move the cursor to probe the model plot in the current viewport.
As you position the cursor over a node,
Abaqus/CAE
displays the values of the items you have requested in the first row of the
data table.
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To select and accumulate values of interest, and to allow subsequent
writing of these values to a file, click mouse button 1 while positioning the
cursor over a node.
Abaqus/CAE
stores the data from the first row of the data table into the storage rows of
the data table.
Enter the node labels directly into the
table:
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Click the Part instance arrow, and select the
part instance from which you want to select node labels.
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Enter the node label or labels that you want to include. You can
specify multiple node labels at the same time by separating them with commas.
Select the nodes included in a display
group:
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Click the Display group arrow, and select the
display group containing the nodes that you want to include in your query.
If you change your selection of display group,
Abaqus/CAE
replaces the contents of the data table with nodes from the newly selected
display group.
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If desired, append additional nodes to your list by selecting them
from the viewport or keying them in by node label.
Repeat the node selection steps until the data table in the
Probe Values dialog box includes all the nodes you want to
query.
To delete data from the data table or to clear or sort the table,
click mouse button 3. For more information, see
Entering tabular data.
To create a display group using the nodes in the data table, do the
following:
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Click mouse button 3 in the data table, and select
Create Display Group from the menu that appears.
The Create Display Group dialog box appears.
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Enter a name for the new display group, and click
OK.
To display probe annotations for any of the nodes in the data table,
toggle on the check box for the rows corresponding to the nodes you want to
annotate or toggle on the check box in the header row to display probe
annotations for all selected nodes.
Note:
You can customize the color and font for probe annotations of nodes
in the Common Plot Options dialog box. For more
information, see
Using common plot options.
To save the data you have selected, click Write to
File. For more information, see
Generating tabular data reports.”
To exit probe mode, do one of the following:
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Click the cancel
button in the prompt area.
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Click Cancel in the Probe
Values dialog box.
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Click mouse button 2.
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Produce a plot in some other (e.g. undeformed, deformed) mode.
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