For the option: | Do the following: |
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Comment | Enter a title for the results file. |
Format | Set the type of format: ■Binary - By default, Adams View saves the results file as a binary file. You cannot view a binary file nor can you move it to different computer platforms. It, however, provides greater precision, faster access, and more compact size than a standard Adams View text file. ■ASCII - Standard Adams View text file with no formatting. ■XML - XML is a license-free, platform-independent file format used often for Web applications. The XML format's structured data representation is an ideal framework for storing Adams information. Because XML is an ASCII file, you can use it across all platforms and read it in a text editor. Although the formatting is not optimized for reading in text editors, you will find it useful to quickly check the progress of a simulation, or debugging a model. You can tag XML-formatted results for retrieval from many database or pdm systems. Freely available tools for reading and writing XML files makes it easy to incorporate Adams results into other programs. |
If you selected XML as the format, the following options are active: | |
Decimal Places | Specify how many digits are written after the decimal point for real numbers. The default value is 17 decimal places (full precision for recovery of double-precision numbers). |
Round Off | Set to On to turn on the roundoff feature for real numbers (the default is disabled). The Significant digits option controls the actual numbers of digits retained during rounding off. |
Scientific Notation | Specify the boundaries at which the format for real numbers switches from a fixed point format to scientific notation. The values are exponents for the base ten. The default values are -4 and 5, meaning that any number less than or equal to 1.0E-04 or greater than or equal to 1.0E+05 will be written in scientific notation. |
Shift Width | Specify a positive integer that defines the number of spaces added at the left of each level of hierarchy in the XML data structure. The default is zero spaces to minimize the file size, but provides the lowest level Kof readability. The following shows an example of a portion of an XML file when Shift Width is set to 3. ------------------------------------- xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Results> < Analysis> < ModelInfo title="model_1" /> < Units angle="deg" length="mm" mass="kg" time="sec" /> ... |
Significant digits | Specify how many significant figures of a real number are retained during round off (when round off is enabled). The default is to use ten significant figures. This number is distinct from the number of places actually printed for a real number, which the Decimal Places option controls. Significant Figures includes digits to the left and right of the decimal point. |
Trailing Zeros | Set to On to specify that trailing zeros are printed for real numbers. The default is not to print trailing zeros. When enabled, all the digits after the decimal point will be printed, whether they are zero or not. When disabled, any zeros at the end of the fractional part of the number will be dropped, leaving the last digit as a non-zero digit. |
Zero Threshold | Enter the zero threshold value for numbers being written to an output file. If a number has an absolute value smaller than the zero threshold value, then it will be written out as zero. This value is independent of units. |