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December 19, 2014
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Hello All,

I am trying to find an easy way to export measures for each time step in a non-linear analysis. For instance, I have 5 time steps, and I want the measures for each time step, so they can be compiled. I have found that the "analysis_name".res file will have the first and last time step, but it doesn't have anything for the other steps? I am working in Creo2.

Am I missing something?

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Best answer by ehaenen

Hi Toby

The essence was that at some stage Beau's analysis had ceased to be a non-linear one, because he had added a shell representation to the model.

Only solid elements can be used for non-linear analysis.

The analysis then reverted to producing only measure results for begin and end of the analysis. As soon as the shells were deleted, we could select large deformation and the measures in each time step were obtained.

(Just like Beau said in his answer)

Regards

Erik

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TomD.inPDX

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If this is a motion analysis, you can do a measure over time and output this to a graph, which can be output to a delimited text file.

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Thanks for the reply, but its not a motion analysis. I am trying to get average slippage factors for contact regions for the increasing loads at each time step.

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mlindqvist

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I would typically run the analysis, go to results, and then create a graph displaying a measure vs. time. Then click "File-export-excel".

/Mats L/

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Mats,

Thanks for the respsonse. This way will work, but if I have 40 contact areas and 6 load cases, it will take a while to compile the results. So I was hoping there would be a file (.res) that would have all of them in there for a quick compillation using some Excel programming.

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ehaenen

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Hi Beau

You need to define user defined output intervals, in my example the .res file contains all values for all meaures in all requested output intervals for both pass1 and pass2.

Succes!

Erik

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Erik,

I was hopeful that using more time steps I would get the output I was looking for as you have said. I have tried this in the past, but gave it another shot this morning. It seems that I only get the first and last time step for each solution pass.

Here is my run definition with the added time steps like you mentioned. I am using a simplifed model to run these trials and here is my .res file with only the first and last time step results for each pass.

Not sure why you can see each time step in your .res file, yet I cannot. My analysis is a static analysis, so maybe that has something to do with it. Not sure. I am running M100 CREO2.