I have defined ASCII database and also defined node set and element set for the output with output interval of 1e-8 sec. But every time the output is written in d3plot and I receive a warning "Warning 20006 (STR+6) reset d3plot output interval from 0. to 5e-6". I am not sure what I am doing. I can't see any ASCII output files after the run is complete and all I receive is d3plots with time interval between output as 5e-6 sec. I really need some info regarding this issue.
Hi @manoz21,
To start, you need to understand what you are defining. This number is how often numerical data (ascii) will be written to a file, so once every 1e-8 seconds. This has nothing to do with the d3plot files, that frequency is defined by *Database_binar_d3plot. Back to ASCII, you now need to determine how many datapoints you need for your simulation length. What is probably happening is that you are setting this too low and dyna thinks it is 0. A good rule of thumb is to make this frequency around 1/1000 your simulation time, but it’s not that necessary to change it precisely every time. Example: Most of the simulations I run are between 100 and 500 ms in length so my ascii frequency stays at 0.1 ms.
Another thing to think about is are you sure that your model units are in seconds? Just make sure that everything is consistent.
@negativevolume thanks for the details. But I am still confused as to how I am getting the d3plots. I haven't created any cards relating to the d3plots. I have also used only the ASCII output for elout and nodout. But somehow I am getting the warning"Warning 20006 (STR+6) reset d3plot output interval from 0. to 5e-6" and all output is written in d3plot. I hope you can provide a little clarification.
@manoz21 add *Database_binary_d3plot and set DT to what you want your animation output frequency to be and then see if you are still getting errors.
@negativevolume that's the issue.. i don't need the output for the entire model.. that's why i am trying to avoid using d3plot.. but still I am getting only the d3plots and above error eventhough I am just using the ASCII database..