PostprocessingΒΆ
Mekanimo records the first 30,000 time-steps’ (frames) results in a Python list called system.timeHistory. This value can be changed from the Python interpreter as shown below.
>>> system.timeHistoryLen = 50000
If you don’t wish to record any values, then you can set the system.recordTimeHistory to False as shown below.
>>> system.recordTimeHistory = False
Warning
Once you set the system.recordTimeHistory to False then you cannot display any plots or playback the results.
To be able to post-process the time-history data you can request history output from Output -> Results data (CSV) menu (see Figure 3) by specifying the type/s of output results. Once you select them, Mekanimo creates a comma seperated values text file with the same name as the current model name.
Figure 3: Output request options
In addition, results can be plotted by double clicking on the desired result node from the Object Tree as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Plotting output data
Plotted results can be interactively manipulated from the plot window by zooming, panning, and hovering the cursor on the plot lines to read exact values.
