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Hi,
I would like more information about the formating of the values for the Gausspoint in the post-processing file.
I do obtain my values from a external FE calculator at every gauss point.
I follow the guideline of the user manual of GiD to make my .res files.

My problem is that, for each gauss point, I do have three values for every time step analysed.
So, If I ran 10 analysis in the FE software, I get 3 * 10 = 30 values / gauss point.

I have tried the following, which doesn't seems to work. ( I added some of the first values of the first elements as example and omitted the first column showing the element number because the format didn't hold in the forum).

GiD Post Results File 1.0
GaussPoints "Gauss_Sol" Elemtype Quadrilateral
Number of Gauss Points: 4
Natural Coordinates: internal
End GaussPoints

Result "Contraintes" "Contraintes Sol" 32 Matrix OnGaussPoints "Gauss_Sol"
Values
16554.4 -66217.5 1.27E-12 -19568.7 -66380.6 -1.98E-12 -20119.2 -68389.7 41.4726 -20347.2 -69225.4 65.3915 -20563 -70008.5 83.5585 -20783.3 -70806.4 102.206 -21009.6 -71626.1 122.168 -21238 -72448.4 141.105 -21470.3 -73284.2 160.717 -21705.4 -74127 179.783 -21950.2 -75002.5 199.239 -22190.3 -75859.5 218.455 -22434.5 -76729.5 237.472 -22682.1 -77609.5 256.337 -22933.6 -78501.4 275.325 -23188.4 -79402.6 293.01 -23450.7 -80325.8 313.44 -23707.9 -81235.1 329.284 -23970.8 -82161.1 347.471 -24239.3 -83101.9 364.162 -24509.9 -84050.3 381.592 -24780.7 -84998.3 397.381

I thought that any data in excess of the 3 Sxx Syy Sxy would be considered to be the next step analysis. I guess the solution if fairly simple but I didn't find answer to it directly in the user's manual... If any1 could help me ! Thanks.

As I answered in other message, you must write a block of results for each time step (the time step must be a number, integer or real)

GiD Post Results File 1.0
Result "Stress" "Stress Soil" 1 Matrix OnGaussPoints GP_QUADRILATERAL_4
Values
element_id xx_g1 yy_g1 xy_g1
xx_g2 yy_g2 xy_g2
...
xx_g4 yy_g4 xy_g4
...
element_id xx_g1 yy_g1 xy_g1
xx_g2 yy_g2 xy_g2
...
xx_g4 yy_g4 xy_g4
End values

...

Result "Stress" "Stress Soil" 4 Matrix OnGaussPoints GP_QUADRILATERAL_4
Values
element_id xx_g1 yy_g1 xy_g1
xx_g2 yy_g2 xy_g2
...
xx_g4 yy_g4 xy_g4
...
element_id xx_g1 yy_g1 xy_g1
xx_g2 yy_g2 xy_g2
...
xx_g4 yy_g4 xy_g4
End values