Plot

Right-click Export () and select Plot () to export a plot from a plot group. Or right-click any plot, for example, the Slice plot in a 3D Plot Group, and then select Add Plot Data to Export.

The nodes are numbered sequentially. To make it easier to organize, you can right-click and Rename the node.

Plot

Select a Plot group from the list, which contains any previously defined plot groups. Select a Plot to export its data. Plot groups can contain one or more individual plots.

Click the Export button () in the Settings window or right-click the node and select Export. The Messages window confirms where the files are exported as specified in the File section.

Output

Enter a Filename including a path to save it to your computer, or click Browse and navigate to where you want to Save the output. You can save the plot data using one of the following file types that you choose from the Save as type list: text files (*.txt), CSV (comma-separated values) files (*.csv), data files (*.dat), or unstructured VTK files (*.vtu).

Select the Always ask for filename check box if you want the program to always display a dialog box for specifying where to store the plot data.

From the Data format list, select Spreadsheet (the default), Sectionwise, STL Binary File (*.stl), or STL Text File (*.stl) (the options to export to STL files are only available for Volume, Surface, Slice, Multislice, Isosurface, and Far Field plots). For Streamline plots and Particle Tracing plots, you can also control the amount of data to export. By default, the data contains full information about all points for all particles or streamlines. The filename extension is automatically adjusted according to the data format. If you save the plot data as a VTK file, the Data format list is not available.

Always check the filename extension after selecting the data format.

Select the Only export start and end points check box to only include one row with the start and end points for each particle or streamline.

This check box only has an effect on particles plotted as lines because plots of particles as points do not contain full information about the particle trajectories.

Advanced

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The Include header and Full precision check boxes are selected by default. Click to clear the check box if you do not want to include a header, or to limit the precision in the output to six significant figures (and which provides an output that contains all significant figures for data stored as double-precision numbers). If you save the plot data as a VTK file, the Include header check box is not available.

•	By default the data is unsorted. Select the Sort check box to sort the data by increasing x, y, and z coordinates.

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From the If the file exists list, select Overwrite (the default) to replace the data in the file with the data you export, or choose Append to append the data to the end of the file. Appending data can be useful when exporting data for a parametric sweep, for example. If you save the plot data as a VTK file, the If the file exists list is not available.

The advanced settings are ignored if you export a plot to an STL file.