Database Storage
Settings → Solver → Output → More → Output Category → Database Storage
Selecting
Database Storage as the Output Category in the
Solver Settings dialog box, lets you set how Adams View handles the results for:
■Single Simulations - As you perform a single
Simulation, Adams View stores the results of the simulation under the current model in your
Modeling database. By default, when you perform another simulation, Adams View overwrites the results of the previous simulation. You can store simulations results in your database after a simulation has finished so that Adams View does not overwrite them. For information on saving the results of individual simulation, see Saving Simulation Results.
■Multi-run Simulations - For a
parametric analysis, Adams View stores the parametric analysis (multi-run) results in an analysis object called Last_Multi. This analysis is not a full analysis—it simply contains a summary of the design variable variations and Objective values for each model that was analyzed in the parametric study. Unless you rename or copy Last_Multi before running another parametric analysis, subsequent parametric study summaries will overwrite Last_Multi.
Saving Multi-Run simulations does not save each individual trial resulit simply saves a summary of the parametric study. To save each individual trial result, use Save Analysis for Individual Simulations.
Parametric analyses can run many simulations. Use care in saving individual analyses and/or mult-run analyses. It is possible to exhaust the memory or file space available on your computer. Running out of memory or file space can lead to unpredictable system problems, and cause the parametric analysis to fail.
You can use
measures to compare specific data between runs without saving all the results. Create and display a measure for the data of interest, then select
Save Curves under the
Display settings of the
Solver Settings dialog box. Adams View charts the measure for each simulation and saves all the curves. At the end, you have a strip chart showing the measure for all simulations.
Stored simulation results remain in your modeling database when you save your modeling database. Be careful not to save more simulation results than you need since they require quite a bit of storage space. To delete simulation results from your modeling database, see
Deleting Simulation Results.
For the option: | Do the following: |
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Single Simulations |
Save Analysis | Set to Yes to automatically store simulation results in the modeling database. |
Prefix | After selecting Save Analysis, enter the prefix you want Adams View to use as the name of each simulation. Adams View appends a unique number to the prefix to form the complete name of the new analysis object. |
Multi-Run Simulations |
Save Analysis | Set to Yes to automatically a copies the parametric analysis results to a permanent location when the analysis is complete. |
Prefix | After selecting Save Analysis, enter the name you want to use for each analysis object. Adams View appends a unique number to the prefix to form the complete name of the new analysis object. Adams View creates the new analysis under the model you analyzed. |
Stop on error | Set to Yes a to stop the parametric analysis if Adams Solver encounters an error during a simulation. If you set it to No, Adams Solver continues running simulations even if a simulation fails or another error occurs. Use care if you turn this option off. Optimizations probably do not recover well from an error. In some cases, you may want to continue a Design study or Design of experiments (DOE) even if a few of the simulations fail. |
One Parasolid | Set to Yes to instruct Adams to write out the parasolid file of the model geometry only for the first run during a parametric analysis. Can save time and disk space in situations when the model geometry is not changing from run-to-run. |