File Naming Conventions

File naming conventions

All "curve" and "csv" files must have a name in the form <name>NNN.<extension> , where:

<name>

is any sensible character string, but see conventions below;

NNN

is a 3 or 4 digit number using leading zeros if required;

<extension>

is any sensible character string. ".cur" and ".csv" is recommended.

The reason for this syntax is that more than one file may be generated by an output command, and some sort of systematic naming convention is required.

By default the following filenames are used:
For global model derived data vs. time:	glob001.cur/csv
For part derived data vs. time:	part001.cur/csv
For contact surface derived data vs. time:	surf001.cur/csv
For element derived data vs. time:	elem001.cur/csv
For nodally derived data vs. time:	node001.cur/csv
For any COMPOSITE data:	comp001.cur/csv
For cut-section data:	sect001.cur/csv
For group data:	grp001.cur/csv
For include file data:	incl001.cur/csv

You can change them if you wish, but it is recommended that you do not. If you omit the NNN part of the filename string D3PLOT will insert it for you.