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[m_gonser]

Hello together,

i am running a transient thermal-electric simulation with about 5000 Steps (7000sec). As the data size is huge i tried to reduce it. (Approximately 211GB for all steps )

The "Output Controls" options are not working due the thermal-electric simulation.

[Ashish Khemka]

Can you check how often (that is, at which substeps) are you writing the solution results item? Please refer to the following article which might help:

Reducing the Size of your RST FileÔÇôOUTRES is your Friend ÔÇô PADT, Inc. ÔÇô The Blog (padtinc.com)

Regards Ashish Khemka

[m_gonser]

thank you for the response! Yes, I referred to the link you sent.
in the sulution information, in the beginning, the default value is the following:
Then i try to overwrite the output control table, with the code above, which seems to work at first:
But at all the following load steps, the output control options are overwritten again

[Chandra Sekaran]

If you are using Mechanical, set the "Step Selection Mode" to 'ALL'. The default is FIRST. So the outres commands may be getting executed only for the first load step.
Also I like including outres,all,none like below
OUTRES,ERASE
OUTRES,all,NONE
OUTRES,FMAG,LAST
OUTRES,EHEAT,LAST
OUTRES,ETMP,LAST
OUTRES,EPTH,LAST
OUTRES,STAT

[m_gonser]

Thank you, it was the "Step Selection Mode" setting.
Now it is working and i can test, which items are useful for my case.
Problem solved, thank you!