Engine Keyword Describes the output of .abf
files. (.abf [binary] files are optimized for fast plotting of very
large data sets and is intended for creating 2D and 3D plots using HyperGraph and HyperGraph
3D).
Format
/ABF
Definitions
Field |
Content |
SI Unit Example |
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Time frequency to write
data on plot file .abf file. |
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Time frequency to write
.abf file.
- = 0
- An .abf file will be written only
at the end of the calculation.
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Comments
- A Runname_run#.tmp
buffering file containing the Time History information is written with frequency
and translated to an .abf
file with the
frequency.
- The reading of an
.abf files output by Radioss is only available with HyperGraph 11.0 SA-101 or
higher.
- Translation of the
.tmp file to the .abf file
executes an external program abf_converter_platform which
is provided with the HyperWorks installation at the
same location as the Radioss executables.
- It is recommended to not set the update
of .abf files to a high frequency, in case of parallel
computation, because it could reduce Radioss
performance.
- In case of a not NORMAL TERMINATION,
the .abf file may be incomplete.
- It is possible to translate a
.tmp file output by Radioss
to an .abf file at any time during the Engine execution or
in case of a not NORMAL TERMINATION, use the
abf_converter_platform
program,
as:abf_converter_platform -exe
Runname_run#.tmp
Example:
[user@machine]$ abf_converter_linux64 -exe test.tmp
.tmp TO ABF CONVERTOR
FILE = test.tmp
OUTPUT FILE = test.tmp.abf
** CONVERSION COMPLETED
- Platform may be linux32, linux64,
linuxia64, macosx64, solarisx64, win32, or win64, depending on the machine
architecture.