# Downloading displacement results as an STL or IGES file
**URL:** https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/downloading-displacement-results-as-an-stl-or-iges-file/84128
**Category:** Using SimScale
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/downloading-displacement-results-as-an-stl-or-iges-file/84128 "2019-01-24T14:48:55Z")
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### Author:  [@FreeStroke](https://www.simscale.com/forum/u/FreeStroke)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/downloading-displacement-results-as-an-stl-or-iges-file/84128/1 "2019-01-24T14:48:55Z")
I’ve been using simscale casually for a year or so and it has a lot of power. I was wondering about downloading results however. For example, if I have a solid that deforms due to the stress condition I can view those results visually in the solution fields. But, i want to actually measure dimensions of the resulting model (like you would in a CAD package). Is their a way to export the displacement results as a solid model (ie STL, IGES, etc) to use in a CAD package?
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### Author:  [@jousefm](https://www.simscale.com/forum/u/jousefm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/downloading-displacement-results-as-an-stl-or-iges-file/84128/2 "2019-01-24T16:35:32Z")
Hi @FreeStroke and thanks for being such a loyal SimScaler, we really appreciate that 🙂
To your question: You can download the results and post-process them in Paraview which allows you to do more sophisticated analyses on your model. For measuring the dimensions of your model or to identify the origin I would personally use a CAD tool like Onshape.
Let me know if that answers your question.
All the best!
Jousef
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### Author:  [@FreeStroke](https://www.simscale.com/forum/u/FreeStroke)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/downloading-displacement-results-as-an-stl-or-iges-file/84128/3 "2019-01-24T17:11:04Z")
Hey Jousef,
Actually, I used Onshape to generate most of my simple parts for analysis in Simscale. So I can download the results from simscale into a format that can be used with Onshape?
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### Author:  [@jousefm](https://www.simscale.com/forum/u/jousefm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/downloading-displacement-results-as-an-stl-or-iges-file/84128/4 "2019-01-24T17:37:46Z")
Hi @FreeStroke!
To be more precise: For displaying the displacements carried out by the FE analysis you use Paraview (or any other quantity that you want to investigate more meticulously). For CAD measuring I would personally use Onshape 🙂
Cheers!
Jousef