A transcript file contains a complete record of all standard input to and output from Ansys Fluent (usually all keyboard and GUI input and all screen output) including the start, end, and total time of the session, as well as the wall-clock time taken per iteration. GUI commands are recorded as Scheme code lines in transcript files. Ansys Fluent creates a transcript file by recording everything typed as input or entered through the GUI, and everything printed as output in the text window.
The purpose of a transcript file is to produce a record of the program session for later reference. Because they contain messages and other output, transcript files (unlike journal files), cannot be read back into the program.
You can set the Automatic Transcript option in the
General branch of Preferences to automatically record a transcript file
starting at the beginning of each new Ansys Fluent session. Automatically created transcripts are
named as follows: fluent-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-<processID>.trn, where
YMD stand for "year" "month" "day" and HMS
stand for "hour" "minute" "second".
File → Preferences...
→ General → Automatic
Transcript
The transcript is saved to the working directory if it is writable, otherwise it is saved in the temporary directory. The absolute path of the temporary directory varies for Windows and Linux, but in all cases, the path where the transcript file is saved is printed in the Console.
Important: Only one transcript file can be open for recording at a time (except if you have Automatic Transcript enabled, then you can still create an additional transcript file), but you can write a transcript and a journal file simultaneously. You can also read a journal file while a transcript recording is in progress.
To start the transcription process, select the File/Write/Start Transcript... ribbon tab item.
File → Write → Start Transcript...
After you enter a name for the file in the Select File dialog box, transcript recording begins and the Start Transcript... menu item becomes the Stop Transcript menu item.
You can end transcript recording by selecting Stop Transcript, or by exiting the program.
File → Write → Stop Transcript