For the option: | Do the following: |
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File Name | Enter the name you want to assign to the dataset file. You do not need to enter the file extension .adm, because Adams View assumes that is the file extension. If you want the file written to a directory other than the one from which you are running Adams View, enter the path name in the File Name text box. To browse for the directory in which you want to export the command file, right-click the File Name text box, and then select Browse to display the File Selection dialog box. |
Model Name | Enter the name of the model you want exported as a command file. Tips on Entering Object Names in Text Boxes. |
Temporary Settings | Specify one or more Temporary Settings Files (.tsf) files. Property values contained in the file(s) will be applied before exporting the .adm file and then reverted to their original values immediately after exporting the .adm file. Note that this field is only available, if the Temporary Settings capability has been enabled from the AView-Preferences section of the Adams Registry Editor. |
Write to Window/Write to File Only | To specify where the text of the dataset is to be written and displayed, select one of the following: ■Write to Window - To display the dataset in an information window, as well as save it in a file. ■Write to File Only - To only write the dataset to a file and not display it in an information window. |
Indent Spaces | Enter the number of spaces used to indent the continuation line of a statement. The allowed values are between 0 and 4 spaces. (Five or more spaces make the subsequent text on the line a comment.) The default is 1 space. Adams View does not indent the text for continuation lines of function expressions. It assumes that you will add any leading spaces that you want for indentation of functions. Any indentation Adams View would enter would interfere with the indention used to show nesting of IFfunctions. Adams View does, however, indent the argument list of a user function if it requires more than one line. Adams View precedes the values of an argument that has multiple string values separated by colons with a comma and indents the values if you place them on a continuation line. This applies to the PART/EXACT and COUPLER/TYPE arguments. It does not apply to the REQUEST/TITLE argument, which doesn't allow embedded spaces. Instead, Adams View precedes a REQUEST/TITLE argument with a comma. |
Decimal Places | Enter the number of decimal places written after the decimal point for real numbers. In cases where this setting conflicts with the setting for Significant Digits, the setting which would result in the number with the fewest digits will be applied. For example: Value = 59.1234567890; with Significant Digits = 10 and Decimal Places = 10, the .adm file will show 59.12345678 since respecting Significant Digits results in a 10-digit number and respecting Decimal Places would have resulted in a 12-digit number. So, to ensure that this setting, Decimal Places, is always respected, one should set Significant Digits sufficiently higher than Decimal Places to account for anticipated digits to the left of the decimal. |
Zero Threshold | Enter the threshold value for numbers being written to an Adams Solver dataset. When Adams View writes a number that has an absolute value smaller than the zero threshold value, it writes it as zero. The zero threshold value is independent of units. |
Significant Digits | Control how many significant digits of a real number Adams View retains during round off. Be sure to select Round Off Values so rounding off occurs. In cases where this setting conflicts with the setting for Significant Digits, the setting which would result in the number with the fewest digits will be applied. For example: Value = 59.1234567890; with Significant Digits = 10 and Decimal Places = 2, the .adm file will show 59.12 since respecting Significant Digits would have resulted in a 10-digit number and respecting Decimal Places resulted in a 4-digit number. So, to ensure that this setting, Significant Digits, is always respected, one should set Decimal Places sufficiently high to account for the anticipated digits to the left of the decimal. |
Scientific Notation | Specify where the format for real numbers switches from a fixed point format to scientific notation. Enter the lower and upper power of 10. Separate the values with commas (,). The default values are -4 and 5, meaning that Adams View writes any number less than or equal to 1.0E-04 or greater than or equal to 1.0E+05 in scientific notation. |
As Found In Original File/ Put Markers Where Used/ Keep Markers with Parts | Control the organization of the statements within the dataset by specifying one of the following: ■As Found In Original File - Maintains the order of the statements in the original dataset when Adams View writes the model back to an existing dataset. To indicate which statements came from the original dataset and which statements are new, Adams View writes any new statements that you have added to the original model after all the original statements, and also labels both sections. ■Put Markers Where Used - Writes the marker statements immediately after statements that depend on the markers. These include the statements: BEAM, BUSHING, FIELD, SFORCE, SPRINGDAMPER, VFORCE, VTORQUE, GFORCE, NFORCE, JOINT, JPRIM, REQUEST, MREQUEST, CVCV, and PTCV. If none of these types of statements use a marker, Adams View writes the marker statement after the part statement to which it belongs. Adams View writes graphic statements that belong to a single part after the markers for that part, and writes graphic statements that connect one or more parts after all the part statements are written. It writes statements of the same type, such as JOINTs, JPRIMs, BUSHINGs, as a group, in order of ascending Adams IDs. ■Keep Markers with Parts - Writes the markers that belong to a part as a group after the part to which they belong. In addition, Adams View writes the graphic statements that belong to a single part after the marker statements for that part, and writes graphic statements that connect one or more parts after all the part statements. Adams View also writes statements of the same type, such as JOINTs, JPRIMs, and BUSHINGs, as a group, in order of ascending Adams IDs. In general, Adams View writes any statements that depend on other statements before the statements that depend on them. For example, it writes marker statements before the joint statements that use them, and writes joint statements before any coupler statements that connect them. |
Roundoff Values | To control the numerical rounding of real numbers, select Roundoff Values to enable the rounding of real numbers. When you enable the rounding of numbers, Adams View retains the numbers of places you enter in the Significant Digits text box. |
Write Default Values | Select to set whether or not arguments that have default values are written explicitly into the dataset. The default is to not write default values into the dataset. |
Multiple parameters/Line | Select to write as many parameters and their values that fit within 80 columns for each line of the statement. For example: PART/1, QG = 0.5, 0, 0, REULER = 0D, 90D, 0D, MASS = 1.2 If you do not select Multiple Parameters/Line, Adams View writes only one parameter and its values on each line of the statement. For example: PART/1 , QG = 0.5, 0, 0 , REULER = 0D, 90D, 0D , MASS = 1.2 |
Upper Case Text/ Lower Case Text, Mixed Case Text | To control the case of the text of statement keywords and parameters, select one of the following: ■Upper Case Text- Text for keywords and parameters in the dataset are written in uppercase letters (BEAM). Uppercase is the default. ■Lower Case Text- Text for keywords and parameters in the dataset are written in lowercase (beam). ■Mixed Case Text- Text for keywords and parameters in the dataset are written in initial case (Beam). The first character of each word is in uppercase, and the rest are in lowercase. Note that the text case control does not affect certain types of string-valued arguments. For a listing of the arguments to which the text case does not apply, see Arguments Not Affected by Case Control. |
Include Trailing Zeros | Select Include Trailing Zeros to print all the digits after the decimal point whether they are zero or not. If you do not select Include Trailing Zeros, Adams View drops any zeros at the end of the fractional part of the number leaving the last digit as a non-zero digit. |
Export All Graphics | Select Export All Graphics to write all the graphics into the dataset. If this option is not checked, only the dataset graphics that are supported by the solver (such as BOX) and those that are referenced by contacts, are included in the dataset. Exceptions are the revolution and extrusion geometry types; these are only exported if they are referenced by contacts. |
Verify Model | Select to verify the model before exporting |