/ABF

Engine Keyword

/ABF - Output of .abf Files

Description

Describes the output of .abf files. (.abf [binary] files are optimized for fast plotting of very large data sets and is intended for creating 2D and 3D plots using HyperGraph and HyperGraph 3D).

Format

/ABF

Tabf Tw_abf

Data

Description

Tabf

Time frequency to write data on plot file .abf file.

Tw_abf

Time frequency to write .abf file.

= 0: an .abf file will be written only at the end of the calculation.

Comments

1.	A Runname_run#.tmp buffering file containing the Time History information is written with frequency Tabf and translated to an .abf file with the Tw_abf frequency.

2.	The reading of an .abf files output by RADIOSS is only available with HyperGraph 11.0 SA-101 or higher.

3.	Translation of the .tmp file to the .abf file executes an external program abf_converter_platform which is provided with the HyperWorks installation at the same location as the RADIOSS executables.

4.	It is recommended to not set the update of .abf files to a high frequency, in case of parallel computation, because it could reduce RADIOSS performance.

5.	In case of a not NORMAL TERMINATION, the .abf file may be incomplete.

6.	It is possible to translate a .tmp file output by RADIOSS to an .abf file at any time during the Engine execution or in case of a not NORMAL TERMINATION, use the abf_converter_platform program, as follows:

abf_converter_platform –exe Runname_run#.tmp

Example:

[user@machine]$ abf_converter_linux64 –exe test.tmp

.tmp TO ABF CONVERTOR

FILE = test.tmp

OUTPUT FILE = test.tmp.abf

** CONVERSION COMPLETED

7.	Platform may be linux32, linux64, linuxia64, macosx64, solarisx64, win32, or win64, depending on the machine architecture.