How to generate a time-history plot

So called time history plots can be created based on a previous displayed sequence of data-sets (see ”Toggle Dataset Sequence”) with the command ”graph”. It is also possible to use only the command line. For example:

ds 1 e 3
ds 1 2 10
graph set t

will produce a time history plot for the nodes stored in set over all loadcases from 1 to 10 for the entity nr 3. Or

graph set t DISP D1

will display the displacement in direction 1 for all loadcases. For more details and other options look into the ”graph” command description.

**Figure 12:** example of a time-history plot
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