Pre-out: Compress Tab

Pre-out: Compress Tab

Compression and binary output format provide ways of both speeding up output and also reducing file sizes.

• Compression uses the industry standard "ZLIB" library to compress files into .gz and .zip formats.
• Binary files are proprietary to PRIMER and provide a way of storing data more efficiently, they also improve reading and writing speed

The defaults are:

• The compression status of input files is "remembered" and re-used during output, the "keep" option.
• Binary output is not used by default, even if the input file contained binary data.

These defaults can be changed via preferences, and using the Save settings to oa_pref file button will update these preferences automatically to the current settings..

WARNING: Ansys LS-DYNA cannot read compressed or binary files directly. Do not use these options if the output is to be used directly for analysis.