Viewing the Output from Your Analysis

This postprocessing tutorial for the experienced Abaqus user illustrates how you can use the Visualization module (also licensed separately as Abaqus/Viewer) to display the results from your analysis in graphical form.


In this section:

Displaying output
Which variables are in the output database?
Reading the output database
Customizing a model plot
Displaying the deformed model shape
Displaying and customizing a contour plot
Animating a contour plot
Displaying and customizing a symbol plot
Displaying and customizing a material orientation plot
Displaying and customizing an X–Y plot
Operating on X–Y data
Probing an X–Y plot
Displaying results along a path
Summary