This chapter discusses obtaining, postprocessing, and visualizing results from Abaqus analyses. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Plotting contours for beam geometry,” Section 13.1

• “Streamlines,” Section 13.2

• “Output database size reduction,” Section 13.3

• “Enhanced query options for probing the model,” Section 13.4

• “Displaying constraints in the Visualization module,” Section 13.5

• “Displaying free body nodal forces in symbol plots,” Section 13.6

• “Plotting X–Y data from free body definitions,” Section 13.7

• “Displaying free body cuts on multiple view cuts,” Section 13.8

• “Display of multiple free body cuts for a single view cut,” Section 13.9

• “Controlling plot state and Field Output toolbar synchronization,” Section 13.10

• “Saving and operating on history output X–Y data simultaneously,” Section 13.11

• “Transforming results into a cylindrical or spherical coordinate system,” Section 13.12

• “Contact stress output improvements,” Section 13.13

• “Contact stress error indicators,” Section 13.14

• “General contact output enhancements,” Section 13.15