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Save Session

File → Save As → Session
Exports a snapshot of the current Adams Car or Driveline session to a binary session file (extension .bin).
This capability can be used to quickly save and later restore all data associated with the current session.
It's the Car equivalent of the View database file, and contains all models, analyses, plots, reports, plugins and user interface (UDE definitions, menus, macros and dialog boxes) of the current session.
In addition to the View database file, currently registered Car databases (cdb) and event sets are also supported.
Event sets are not stored in the binary, but written to a separate file in the same folder (same prefix, extension xml), but only if events exists in your session.
 
Notes:  
Due to the binary file format and because it contains all user interface (including plots, menus dialogs and macros, as well as testrigs and UDE definitions) saved session files can only be used within the same version of Adams Car.
If you need to migrate session file content across Adams versions, it is recommended to load it into the Adams Car version it was generated from, use native file formats to save individual objects as, for example, assembly/subsystem/template files (modeling content), plot config files (xy plots) and command files (UI customization) and then load those individually into the current Adams version.
Also note that, the session file can become huge (several GB), if many models, analyses and plugins are present at the time of the save operation.
 
For the option:
Do the following:
Session File Prefix
Enter the file prefix for the session data binary and event set xml file
Target Directory Select
Use the Select button to select the target folder in the file browser.
The Target Directory field will be filled with your selection automatically
Exclude Analyses
If selected, analysis (and multi_run_analysis) objects will not be saved to the session file.
If not selected, analyses will be included in the session file. Including results data in the session (file) may exceed the maximum file size for binary files (currently 2 GB).