How to export displacement results (deformed shape) in CSV/TXT from nodes in Named Selection

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How to export initial position and final displacement results (deformed shape) from my selected nodes in Named Selection and store them in text file?
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Besides using the APDL commands, one possible way would be to add Python Code in Solution branch:
- def after_solve(this, analysis):
- # Do not edit this line
- import mech_dpf
- import Ans.DataProcessing as dpf
- import os
- mech_dpf.setExtAPI(ExtAPI)
- dataSource = dpf.DataSources(analysis.ResultFileName)
- ScopingOp = dpf.operators.scoping.on_named_selection()
- ScopingOp.inputs.named_selection_name.Connect("MyNodeSelection".upper())
- ScopingOp.inputs.data_sources.Connect(dataSource)
- MeshScoping = ScopingOp.outputs.mesh_scoping.GetData()
- # Get displacements for the scoped nodes
- displacements = dpf.operators.result.displacement()
- displacements.inputs.data_sources.Connect(dataSource)
- displacements.inputs.mesh_scoping.Connect(MeshScoping)
- disp = displacements.outputs.fields_container.GetData()[0]
- # Get Mesh information to retrieve node coordinates
- meshData = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0].MeshData
- nodeIds = disp.ScopingIds # Get node list from results
- # Create a list to store node data
- node_data = []
- # Loop over nodes and collect data
- for nid in nodeIds:
- node = meshData.NodeById(nid) # Node data for nid
- nodeDisp = disp.GetEntityDataById(nid) # displacement from node nid
- node_data.append((nid, node.X, node.Y, node.Z, nodeDisp[0], nodeDisp[1], nodeDisp[2], node.X+nodeDisp[0], node.Y+nodeDisp[1], node.Z+nodeDisp[2]))
- # Sort the node data by ascending X coordinate
- node_data.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
- # Write sorted data to txt file in user_files directory from project
- outFileName = os.path.join(analysis.WorkingDir, 'exported_disp.txt')
- with open(outFileName, 'w') as f_out:
- f_out.write('# Node \t X\tY\tZ\tUX\tUY\tUZ\tdefX\tdefY\tdefZ\n')
- for data in node_data:
- f_out.write('\t'.join(map(str, data)) + '\n')
- pass
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