# Contour of principal stresses (LSDyna D3plot)

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/contour-of-principal-stresses-lsdyna-d3plot/969
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 27, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/contour-of-principal-stresses-lsdyna-d3plot/969 "2018-11-27T15:14:26Z")
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### Author: ![Zupan\_Hu](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/858c86/32.png) [@Zupan\_Hu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Zupan_Hu)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/contour-of-principal-stresses-lsdyna-d3plot/969/1 "2018-11-27T15:14:26Z")

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I am a beginner of paraview and recently post processing LSDyna data. For stress analysis, I noticed the coloring for stress only have 7 options: xx, yy, zz, xy, yz, xz, and magnitude. However, I am more interested in Von Mises and Principal stresses. It is viable to create a calculator to calculate the Von Mises stress, however, not for the Principal stresses. I wonder if there is any classical filter for that?

Attached are my LSDyna results. Thank you very much!  
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ISfm00VxxfelI\_k2r5ar7t5-K7uXqPGc](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ISfm00VxxfelI_k2r5ar7t5-K7uXqPGc)