# Node vs. integration point result? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Tags:** results\ **Created:** [September 21, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/node-vs-integration-point-result/3679 "2026-09-21T06:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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CalculiX always provides averaged nodal stresses in .frd files. You can only get the integration point values from .dat files (text files filled with optionally requested history output). So what you see is just another node (its number is also provided). So the max value just switched from node 142727 to node 300779 for this different stress measure. Of course that new node can be a midside node or belong to a different element. Check this topic too if you want to know how to obtain more accurate stress values (although in practice it’s rarely done with CalculiX results): [Is Zienkiewicz-Zhu Stress better than "regular" Stress?](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/is-zienkiewicz-zhu-stress-better-than-regular-stress/3459) In fact, you can get the coordinates of all integration points of a selected element if you add this card via Keyword Editor: ```auto *EL PRINT, ELSET=elset_name COORD ``` You just need to create Element set whose name is referenced as elset\_name. Then check the .dat file in the current work directory after the analysis. You can also add S to COORD to also get the integration point stresses (they will be shown in a table in PrePoMax too). --- _[View the full topic](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/node-vs-integration-point-result/3679)._