element recorder help

[civily]

Hello all,

I have problem recording the element section deformations when using large number of elements in the model..I want to record the curvatures along the length (in one file) of the member,so when I use large number of elements,program fails to run...Here's the command I use for that..
recorder Element -file 100EL/DefES1.out -time -ele all section 1 deformation
A couple additional questions related to this problem in general..
1-)If don't need any of section deformations, is there a way to eliminate them?
2-)what is the easiest way to record the deflections (displacement,rotation,curvature etc.) along the length of a member when using large number of elements?

Thanks...

[silvia]

i do it for large numbers of elements, and have no problems.
however, i do not use the all options, and i don't recommend using it, unless you use the -xml option, where you know the order of the elements.
i break down to columns, beams and braces.
and even further, depending on the type of element i use for each, as each has a different type of input output.

[civily]

Thanks for reply,

But I guess my question is when modeling a beam with a large number of elements..I want to get section deformations along the length,let's say we have 1000 elements,the output file is supposted to be consist of 2000 (strain and curvature) columns corresponding the load fraction...I tried -eleRange option also but I got a blank output file...
When using small number of elements like 10,even -ele all option works fine.

[silvia]

please post the part of the script.