Nodes on ABP Elements: VISFLG on *AIRBAG_PARTICLE Card

Nodes on ABP elements: VISFLG on *AIRBAG_PARTICLE card

The documentation on the *AIRBAG_PARTICLE card suggests that VISFLG must be turned on in order to see airbag particles. This is misleading: airbag particle data is written to the .ptf file regardless if present in the analysis, and this flag simply turns on the output of nodes coincident with these elements.

Since D3PLOT 9.3 onwards will visualise ABP elements without needing these nodes it is recommended that you turn VISFLG off in order to reduce the output database size.