Ad 2) Yes, please see ATENA Troubleshooting, 2.2.20 How can I see the numerical values of monitors and export them into a spreadsheet? And, of course, you can also create a graph in the ATENA Studio Postprocessor (i.e., not only in Runtime).

I am using ATENA 3D to create my model and ATENA Studio to run and post-process. The model consists of 2 construction cases. The monitors are assigned to macroelements that are associated with the second construction case which is not present until step 7 of 120.
In order to plot the load-deflection diagram using the monitoring points, I need to select the monitoring points through the "New Diagram" command in the running window. However, because the monitoring points are not available until step 7, I need to wait to display the monitors. My questions are:

1) Is there a way to avoid waiting, until the analysis reaches the step where the monitors are physically present, to create the plot? I understand that the monitoring points may not be recording anything until the step were they are actually created.

2) Is there a way to obtain the monitoring point values after the analysis is complete if I did *not* plot the diagram during the analysis and I had saved only *some* of the analysis steps? I had assumed that the monitoring points would continuously record values which I can obtain later, but I am not sure how to do this.

Thank you,

Roya