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Alex R.
Ansys Employee

Hello, 

Could you please check the STRFLG flag in *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY. It looks like the xy strain graph is engineering strain, setting STRFLG = 1 will write a cauchy strain tensor to elout. 

Please let me know if that helps. 

Thank you,

AlexÂ