To monitor a degree of freedom:

From the main menu bar, select OutputDOF Monitor.

The DOF Monitor dialog box appears.

In the dialog box, toggle Monitor a degree of freedom throughout the analysis.

If Monitor a degree of freedom throughout the analysis is toggled on, the monitoring options become available in the dialog box.

Click Edit next to the Region field, and use one of the following methods to select the point to monitor:

Use an existing set to define the point. On the right side of the prompt area, click Points. Select an existing set from the Region Selection dialog box that appears, and click Continue. (ABAQUS/CAE displays an error message when you click OK in the DOF Monitor dialog box if you select a set containing more than one vertex or node.)

Note:  The default selection method is based on the selection method you most recently employed. To revert to the other method, click Select in Viewport or Points on the right side of the prompt area.

Use the mouse to select a point in the viewport. (For more information, see “Selecting objects within the current viewport,” Section 6.2.)

The point that you select becomes highlighted in red in the viewport.

In the Degree of freedom field, enter the degree of freedom that you want to monitor.

If you are performing an ABAQUS/Standard analysis, in the Print to the message file every n increments field, enter how often you want ABAQUS to write the degree of freedom values to the message file.

(There is no option to control the frequency at which values are written to the status file, since this frequency is determined by ABAQUS. For more information, see “Output,” Section 4.1.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.)

Click OK to save your request and to exit the dialog box.