Tosca Fluid.post Command Line Arguments

This chapter lists all the command line arguments supported by Tosca Fluid.post.

Tosca Fluid.post call:

ToscaFluid post -j <jobname>

The available commands line options are:

Argument

Explanation

--help

Displays a short help for the Tosca Fluid.post command line arguments.

--version

Displays the version information for Tosca Fluid.post.

-f <string> --format <string>

Select the format of the output.

Available formats are: WRL, SMOOTH

-i <integer range> --iteration <integer range>

Select the iteration(s) to create the output.

The general format of the integer range is:

start[-end[:step]]

-o <string> --output <string>

Base name of the output file that will be created. Appropriate suffixes will be appended to the filenames.

Default: optresult

-r <string> --result <string>

The result that is used for creating output. Available results are:

PTRACK, VELOCITY, MATERIAL, PRIMARY_PTRACK

Default: MATERIAL

-c <double range> --cutoff <double range>

The cutoff value to use for the filtering of the result (Mandatory for velocity extraction).

The general format of the double range is:

start[-end[:step]]

--scale <double>

Used for scaling the geometry when creating output for Tosca Fluid.smooth. For all other output types, the parameter is ignored.

Default: 1.0

--keep_post_data

Previously calculated result data will be preserved. If particle tracks are already calculated for the selected iteration, they are used to create the result without calculating new tracks.

--design_only

Create a result only containing cells within the design space of the job.

-l <string>

Set the log level for Tosca Fluid.post to <string>.

The log level determines the type and amount of logging output of Tosca Fluid.post.

Available options are:

CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG

Default: NOTICE

--cache

The size of the database cache to use (in MB).

-j <string> --jobname <string>

The directory where the SIMULIA Tosca Fluid result database is located. Can be used to allow starting tfluid_post in another directory than the RESULT directory.

Default: ./

The distinct parameters are explained in the following sections with regard to the different possible result data types that can be selected by the -r option.