# Output contour values via profile **URL:** \ **Category:** FLAC\ **Tags:** tips, faq\ **Created:** [October 26, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/output-contour-values-via-profile/799 "2022-10-26T19:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jwang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@jwang](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/jwang)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/output-contour-values-via-profile/799/1 "2022-10-26T19:55:41Z")
A simple way is creating a profile (Plot-\>profile), select the item to create(e.g. xdisp ) and draw a line along the top surface, and then create a profile, in the profile window, right click on the plot, press ‘view data’, you can output the values with x and y coordinates as \*.CSV file. You can also use command directly to export the data to a file, the syntax is shown below: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/itasca/original/1X/60b77f47e257289fb195636e819bd4d4ebfc9681.png) ---
**Author:** ![Gian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gian](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Gian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/output-contour-values-via-profile/799/2 "2026-01-30T20:52:38Z")
How can you export “zone list profile disp-x …“ to csv in FLAC2D 9.6 ? ---
**Author:** ![msepu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@msepu](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/msepu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/output-contour-values-via-profile/799/3 "2026-02-19T15:46:01Z")
i think there is no direct command, probably you should create a list of values, and then write a text file with that information using a fish/python function