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[OnurOnder]

Hello to everyone. I prepared an apdl code and with this code I print the stress values from some nodes to a text file. I give a name to the surface I want to examine with named selection and I want the code to collect data only from the nodes in this region. my code works fine. but I cannot do this on a previously completed analysis. Ansys gives a warning that a surface with this name does not exist because a separate surface is created and a name is not given to this surface during the analysis. I also thought of reading the rst file of the analysis and extracting the data of my surface from it. how can i do that? Or is there an easier way?

Thank you from now.

[Govindan Nagappan]

If you have the db file (or input file), you can import that into Mechanical APDL application, create the named selection you need. The import the result file and execute the commands.
If you just have the result file, it is not sufficient. You need the model(database db file or atleast input file)

[IKER GOMEZ]

Named selections can optionally be transferred to the Rst. but in your case they are not transferred.
The quickest way is to write down the .dat (Tools> Write input file) and open the .dat on Ansys Mechanical APDL. Then, once you have the mesh, you can open your result file back to postprocess over the elemenatal or nodal equivalent component to the named selection.