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and POST26. You use POST1, the general postprocessor, to review results
at one substep (time step) over the entire model or selected portion of the
model. The command to enter POST1 is /POST1 (Main Menu > General
Postproc), valid only at the Begin level. You can obtain contour displays,
deformed shapes, and tabular listings to review and interpret the results of
the analysis. POST1 offers many other capabilities, including error esti-
mation, load case combinations, calculations among results data, and path
operations. You use POST26, the time history postprocessor, to review
results at specific points in the model over all time steps. The command to
enter POST26 is /POST26 (Main Menu > TimeHist Postpro), valid only at
the Begin level. You can obtain graph plots of results data versus time (or
frequency) and tabular listings. Other POST26 capabilities include arith-
metic calculations and complex algebra.