# Plot Maximum Unbalanced Force After Model Solved **URL:** \ **Category:** UDEC\ **Created:** [April 2, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017 "2025-04-02T01:51:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jia](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Jia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017/1 "2025-04-02T01:51:31Z")
Hi all, Is there any way to plot the maximum unbalanced force after the model has been solved? I didn’t write any command for recording an unbalanced force history before running the model. But I remember unbalanced force is automatically recorded in UDEC, and am wondering if there is any way to plot it. Cheers, Jia ---
**Author:** ![Jinci\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@Jinci\_Chen](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Jinci_Chen)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017/2 "2025-04-02T04:45:39Z")
Hi Jia, UDEC provide very good GUI interaction. After resolving the model, I think you can check the plot: contact force: maximum unbalanced force. Or if your model is sav. you can export VTK file and post-process it using Paraview, which require addtional work. ---
**Author:** ![Jia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jia](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Jia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017/3 "2025-04-02T05:00:26Z")
Hi Jinci, thanks a lot for the information. I wonder if it is possible to plot as a history curve. Just like the result from the command: bl mechanical history unbalanced-maximum. ---
**Author:** ![Jinci\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@Jinci\_Chen](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Jinci_Chen)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017/4 "2025-04-02T19:08:33Z")
I am not sure what you mean “to plot unbalanced-maximum map as a history curve.”, certainly, once you export spatial data from the map, you process the data, for instance you want to visulize the unbalanced-maximum on a specific point/area, likely you will plot the curve you want. ---
**Author:** ![Jia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jia](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/Jia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017/5 "2025-04-02T22:46:55Z")
Apologise for the unclear information. I am actually looking for the curve as below. Commonly, when we use the command ‘bl mechanical his unbal-m’, we can obtain such a curve in the history plot. However, I didn’t use this command before running the model and am seeking some way to grab it after the model is solved. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/itasca/original/2X/c/c1f75e9ef3764fa3c9acd770625a907f711af318.png) ---
**Author:** ![udecsupport](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@udecsupport](https://forum.itascainternational.com/u/udecsupport)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.itascainternational.com/t/plot-maximum-unbalanced-force-after-model-solved/2017/9 "2025-04-10T16:54:02Z")
UDEC no longer automatically assigns an unbalanced force history. This is done explicitly using: block mechanical history unbalanced-maximum There is no way to recreate this history after the cycling has occurred..