{"id":381601,"date":"2024-09-05T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/381601\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:21:36","slug":"381601","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/381601\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: How to export solution data every n timestep of a transient fluent simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Do you have a .dat file for every timestep that you want to export? If not, the data is gone and you will have to re-run it. CFD-Solvers only save at the specified timesteps. If not our hard drives would be full very quickly.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have all the .dat files then you could export then. Start by recording a journal file (File-&gt;Write-&gt;Start Journal&#8230;) then do the necessary steps to output the desired variables into ASCII format. You can use the GUI or type out the TUI commands. After doing it once, stop the journal recording (File-&gt;Write-&gt;Stop Journal). You can then edit this .jou file (just use any text editor) and set it up to export the timesteps that you want.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-381601","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you have a .dat file for every timestep that you want to export? If not, the data is gone and you will have to re-run it. CFD-Solvers only save at the specified timesteps. If not our hard drives would be full very quickly. 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