XML text file format

Results can be saved as an XML text file for interfacing with other software programs, such as ANSYS.

To save the plot results in XML format, you first need to have the result displayed.

XML plot results file structure

In the exported XML file, data is separated into blocks. Each block has an index number and its contents depend on the data type (mesh data on elements or nodes; non-mesh data; and highlight data).

For mesh data, each block:

• Corresponds to one animation frame.
• Contains independent variable names, values and units.
• Contains dependent variable name, values and unit.
• Contains data type element or node ID and data values.
• Contains layer information. Included only if the data has layer information.

Non-mesh data is structured similarly to mesh data but has no element or node IDs.

Highlight data has only one block with one or more groups, each containing a set of point coordinates.