{"id":164633,"date":"2023-03-17T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/whataes-the-difference-between-a-session-file-and-a-state-file-in-cfd-post\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:25:58","slug":"whataes-the-difference-between-a-session-file-and-a-state-file-in-cfd-post","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/whataes-the-difference-between-a-session-file-and-a-state-file-in-cfd-post\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the difference between a session file and a state file in CFD-Post?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In CFD Post, A session file includes all the steps involved in getting to a certain state. A session file can be created, and all subsequent operations are recorded. Later, the session file can be played back with all the operations re-created. A session file can be used as the initial building blocks of creating a macro.  A state file is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snapshot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of a certain CFD-Post state and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t include the steps involved in getting to that state. State files are useful for regenerating locaters, plots, etc. for the current session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164633","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-12-1","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3-15-2023  20:20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["1002"],"siebel_km_number":["1000198"],"product_version":["12.1"],"km_published_date":["2009-05-19T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["CFD-Post"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}