Load Step: Monitor

Select Monitor to define the *MONITOR card.

The supported attributes are: Node, Node Set, DOF, and Frequency.

Click Update to activate the monitor attributes defined in the Engineering Solutions database.

The following buttons are available on the Monitor dialog:

Table 1.
Button	Action
Pick node	Opens the node selection panel. When you finish picking a node from the model, click return. The Step Manager is updated with the selected node number appearing in the Node entry.
Create/Edit	Opens the Entity Sets panel in Engineering Solutions. When you finish creating/editing the set, click return. The Step Manager is updated with the new set appearing in the node set list. For the Abaqus solver, the set must contain one node only.
Update	Updates the Engineering Solutions database with the data lines defined in the table and the parameters.