July 11, 2023 at 12:17 pm
Ram Gopisetti
Ansys Employee

Hi, 

you can conver the nodeout file int an text file, no harm in that 

or you may want to use the some of the best packages in the intreacting with d3plots and binouts from pydpf and other such repo avialble in github

my fav is the qd lib as in follows 

https://github.com/qd-cae/qd-cae-python

https://dpf.docs.pyansys.com/version/stable/examples/01-transient_analyses/02-lsdyna_operators.html#sphx-glr-examples-01-transient-analyses-02-lsdyna-operators-py

cheers, ram