Hi Shr,

I am sorry that I differ with you. For local co-ordinate system, refer the Technical reference manual in Fig 11 clearly explains about local co-ordinate definition. Considering the example given in Fig 11, if anchor is placed at Node 30 and at Node 40 fx is positive, the force is tension in nature. On the other hand, if anchor is placed at Node 40 and fx is positive, the force is compression in nature. That is why I was enquiring whether it is possible to get the compressive load directly from CAESAR without considering the sign value of fx.
I prefer to have good technical discussion / feed back without using HARSH language.