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

• “Requesting field output on exterior nodes and elements in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 14.1

• “Displaying multiple slices of view cut data,” Section 14.2

• “Enhancements to free body display,” Section 14.3

• “Editing free body cuts,” Section 14.4

• “Selecting elements by topology in the Visualization module,” Section 14.5

• “Enhancement to material orientation plot display,” Section 14.6

• “Nodal field output for tie constraints,” Section 14.7

• “Maximum damage initiation output for shells,” Section 14.8

• “Air blast pressure load output,” Section 14.9

• “Shear rate and viscosity field output available in Abaqus/CFD,” Section 14.10

• “EXODUS-II and NEMESIS output for Abaqus/CFD field output,” Section 14.11

• “Reading X–Y data from history output based on the step time,” Section 14.12

• “Filtering selections for results output,” Section 14.13