2.7. POST1 Commands

These commands are used to postprocess the results with the database processor. The commands are grouped by functionality.

Table 2.80: Setup

These POST1 commands are used to put data into the database for postprocessing.
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 (Distributed ANSYS) 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 2.81: Controls

These POST1 commands are used to control the calculations done for other commands.
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 2.82: Results

These POST1 commands are used to process results, such as degree-of-freedom results, nodal stresses, and element summable and nonsummable miscellaneous data.
NSORT	Sorts nodal data.
NUSORT	Restores original order for nodal data.
PLCINT	Plots the contour integral (CINT) result data.
PLDISP	Displays the displaced structure.
PLESOL	Displays the solution results as discontinuous element contours.
PLNSOL	Displays results as continuous 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 2.83: Element Table

These POST1 commands are used to operate with the element table, which in turn is used to process results stored for each element, such as average stresses, heat fluxes, etc.
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	Allows 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 2.84: Listing

These POST1 commands are used to control printed listings of results.
/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 2.85: Animation

These POST1 commands are used to animate results.
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 particle flow in a flowing fluid or 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.
ANMRES	Performs animation of results over multiple results files in an explicit dynamic structural analysis or fluid flow analysis with remeshing.
ANTIME	Generates a sequential contour animation over a range of time.
TRTIME	Defines the options used for the PLTRAC (particle flow or charged particle trace) command.

Table 2.86: Path Operations

These POST1 commands are used for path operations.
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 2.87: Surface Operations

These POST1 commands are used to define an arbitrary surface and to develop results information for that surface.
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 2.88: Load Case Calculations

These POST1 commands are used for combining results from different load steps.
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 2.89: Magnetics Calculations

These POST1 commands are used for special purpose magnetics postprocessing.
CURR2D	Calculates current flow in a 2-D 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 2.90: Trace Points

These POST1 commands are used to trace particle motions in a flow stream.
PLTRAC	Displays a particle flow or charged particle trace on an element display.
TRPDEL	Deletes particle flow or charged particle trace points.
TRPLIS	Lists the particle flow or charged particle trace points.
TRPOIN	Defines a point through which a particle flow or charged particle trace will travel.

Table 2.91: Special Purpose

These POST1 commands are used for various special purposes.
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	Allows 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 ANSYS 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).
INTSRF	Integrates nodal results on an exterior surface.
KCALC	Calculates stress intensity factors in fracture mechanics analyses.
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.
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 2.92: Status

These POST1 commands are for use with the STAT command.
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.
PRINT	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 2.93: Failure Criteria

These POST1 commands are for use with the failure criteria.
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.