My group and I recently discovered, while working in Ansys Workbench using Post-Processing APDL Snippets, that if you want to access named selections in APDL Snippets within the post-processing result tree, you need to set “Save MAPDL db” to “Yes.”

My group mates, Andreas Trolle Byskov and Gustav Einsbohr Braa Andersen, discovered this while performing nonlinear buckling analysis on frame structures following EN 1993-1-1:2005.

We hope this provides a clear answer for anyone who wants to access this functionality in the future.