# Post Processing Stresses Output **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [January 24, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/post-processing-stresses-output/1444 "2024-01-24T10:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![FEAnalyst](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/prepomax.discourse.group/feanalyst/32/688_2.png) [@FEAnalyst](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/FEAnalyst)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 10:28am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/post-processing-stresses-output/1444/2 "2024-01-24T10:28:34Z")
> [@jsarocena](#): > > I would like to clarify Sir which one is Membrane stress, Out of Plane stresses, normal stress and In plane stresses, shear stress among S11, S22, S33, S12, S23, S13. The stress components are in global coordinates. So S11, S22 and S33 are normal stresses (SX, SY, SZ) while S12, S23 and S13 are shear stresses (SXY, SYZ, SXZ). Local coordinates aren’t currently supported in PrePoMax and you would need keyword edits to use them, if needed. > [@jsarocena](#): > > Is there any way, or command we can apply where we can display the stress Vector along x, along y, along z ? Thank you sir and really appreciate for your kind inputs. No, such plots are not yet available but you could use the Glyph filter in ParaView for that. > [@Converting results to ParaView format](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/converting-results-to-paraview-format/453): > > ParaView doesn’t support CalculiX’s results (.frd) files but there are several converters to .vtk format available: FreeCAD: a) Import the .frd file b) Select the Results object in the tree c) Export to .vtk note: FreeCAD’s FEM module currently displays results in SI(m) unit system and the conversion will also write the results in this unit system [GitHub - calculix/ccx2paraview: CalculiX to Paraview converter (frd to vtk/vtu). Makes possible to view and postprocess CalculiX analysis re…](https://github.com/calculix/ccx2paraview) --- _[View the full topic](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/post-processing-stresses-output/1444)._