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[MickMack]

Hi,

I want to create a chart in excel (i assume this is the best program) comparing the directional velocity of two nodes from two separate models.

I have simply copied the tabular data from Mechanical and pasted it into excel to create my chart. As the minimum time step is 0.00001, the time is in increments beyond 3 decimal places.

However as highlighted in the snippet below, the time displayed is to 3 decimal places, therefore the values when imported into excel display the same time 10.318, which is inaccurate.

How do i increase the time precision to 5 decimal places?

Any other advice on effeecient and effective ways to generate charts would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Michael

[Erik Kostson]

Hi

Try to go to Workbench and main menu -> Tools -> Appearance and significant digits (as shown below) and change that to 9 say and press OK.




All the best

Erik

[MickMack]

That worked perfectly thank you very much, i include a snippet below with the same times highlighted.

Can i also ask is this the most efficient way for generating graphs in excel?
Regards Michael

[Erik Kostson]

Hi

I would say copy the table and paste into excel .
One can also right mouse button click on results objects (say Stress, Total Deformation,...) -> export a txt/csv file.
All the best

Erik

[MickMack]

Many Thanks