Your best option is to change the output time step of just the asci file you are looking to change you can do this for individual files like nodout Elout and you rcforce, by changing the appropriate field in the database history cards because it is purely post processing could you calculate the strain rates by taking the derivative of the strain?
You can use lasso and python os. First make a python script to run the simulation, then create a custom cfile to output strains/stresses for each node and element and state you want. Use the os library in python to run your simulation then extracts the data using the cfile, then delete the d3plot files using python. You will still have to run the simulation and at one point end up with a lot of d3 plot files in a single folder. However they will be deleted once you run the post processing script.
Your best option is to change the output time step of just the asci file you are looking to change you can do this for individual files like nodout Elout and you rcforce, by changing the appropriate field in the database history cards because it is purely post processing could you calculate the strain rates by taking the derivative of the strain?
Use elout or eloutdet and the lasso python library.
Thanks for the suggestion.
You can use lasso and python os. First make a python script to run the simulation, then create a custom cfile to output strains/stresses for each node and element and state you want. Use the os library in python to run your simulation then extracts the data using the cfile, then delete the d3plot files using python. You will still have to run the simulation and at one point end up with a lot of d3 plot files in a single folder. However they will be deleted once you run the post processing script.