# How to get components of vector solution in Gridap

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-components-of-vector-solution-in-gridap/50882
**Category:** Numerics
**Tags:** question, package
**Created:** [November 27, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-components-of-vector-solution-in-gridap/50882 "2020-11-27T23:43:25Z")
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#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-components-of-vector-solution-in-gridap/50882/1 "2020-11-27T23:43:25Z")

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Dear Julia users,

I’m using Gridap, and I’m learning from the tutorials. I have some questions:

a) How can we recover x- or y-components from a numerical solution uh, as the solution to linear elasticity (like in the tutorials). Note that

```julia
typeof(uh)
Gridap.FESpaces.SingleFieldFEFunction{true}

```

there are `get_free_values(uh)` and `get_dirichlet_values(uh)` throwing Array{Float64,1} values, but I’m puzzled about getting something like `ux=uh[1]`, `uy=uh[2]` (sorry for the incorrect syntax in the latter, it is just a way to express it).

b) Does anyone tried to solve anisotropic elasticity using Gridap? Some advice?

Thanks.