recorder formatting

blackard · Post by **blackard** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:37 pm

Is there any way to format the recorder output?

I can't seem to find any information in the user manual,
or the tcl website.

The output gets spit out in quite a crude form,
difficult to figure out what's what.

erol kalkan · Post by **erol kalkan** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:40 pm

Try to load into Matlab, it would look better.

otherwise you may want to change to code and re-compile again.
hope that helps

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:28 am

the "crude" format is the best as it is easily loaded into a post-processor like matlab (othewise you'd have go in and remove text lines, as matlab would not load up such file).
typical output is consistent with dof's: Dx,Dy,Dz,Rotx,RotY,RotZ, or corresponding forces/moments. whether it is in global or local coordinate systems depends on what you specified (at element level it is clear) section output is in local coordinates.
hope this helps.