SHELL 22.1

Input/Output Tab

Input/Output Tab

Clicking on the OPTIONS tab will display this menu of input and output options that can be used with Ansys LS-DYNA.

For more details on these options see the Ansys LS-DYNA User's manual.


Output Files

This option controls the names of the output files generated by Ansys LS-DYNA, either ARUP or LSTC can be selected. With Ansys LS-DYNA 970 onwards the names of the output files can also be specified using the *KEYWORD_ID option where a filename prefix for all of the output files is specified within the input file. If a filename prefix is specified in the input file then this option will be replaced with the prefix specified in the file.

Output File ARUP LSTC *KEYWORD_ID
Binary Complete State Database 'jobname'.ptf D3PLOT 'prefix'.D3PLOT
Time History Database 'jobname'.thf d3thdt 'prefix'.d3thdt

Extra Time History Database

'jobname'.xtf xtfile 'prefix'.xtfile
Binary Output File binout binout 'prefix'.binout
Restart Dump File 'jobname'.dpf d3dump 'prefix'.d3dump
PBM Interface Force 'jobname'.pbm pbmfor 'prefix'.pbmfor
D3PART File 'jobname'.d3part d3part 'prefix'.d3part
Running Restart Dump File 'jobname'.adf runrsf 'prefix'.runrsf