I am writing to ask a way of exporting data from Abaqus. Say I have a model with 1000 elements, and there are 100 time steps. I wish to export max principal strain of the 1000 elements at EACH time step, do you know how to quickly achieve this - I can get a 1000*100 matrix containing strain of each element at different time step?I was using field output button however it only allows output of ONE time-step, giving me a 1000*1 matrix, containing the strain information at that time step. Therefore I would have to manually do it 100 times which is very labor intensive and not routinely repeatable.

So far I have found that by using field output I can find the time history of strain of each element, but they are all individual curves - dunno how to export them all in one go into a single matrix.

Thanks