simple question about the print command

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pierregehl
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simple question about the print command

Post by pierregehl »

Hi,

I'm performing a transient analysis and I would like to visualize the results on GID (i.e. generating an output file with a similar structure than a *.flavia.res).

In order to do that, I'd like to use the print command and print the displacements at each node of model, for each time step.

The probleme is, I only get the displacements at the last time step.

Could someone please tell me what is the syntax of the print command, in order to get the results for all the steps ?

Thk very much for your answer !
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Post by silvia »

look up the nodeDisp command

and you have to break your analysis down to individual steps, which slows it down, of course. puttting the nodeDisp at each step (or N steps..)

otherwise, you can do it not in real-time, then you can use a node recorder.
Silvia Mazzoni, PhD
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Degenkolb Engineers
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San Francisco, CA. 94104
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