Solution Information

Tracks and monitors your nonlinear solution as well as potentially diagnose problems that may arise. It also enables you to view certain finite element graphical aspects of the model, such as finite element connections.

Object Properties

The Details Pane for this object includes the following properties.

CategoryProperties/Options/Descriptions

Solution Information

Solution Output: Not available when you insert a Solution Information object under the Connections object. See the Specifying Solution Information section for a description of all of the available options for this property.

Newton-Raphson Residuals: Applicable only to structural environments.

Identify Element Violations: Applicable only to nonlinear structural environments.

Update Interval: Appears for synchronous solutions only.

Display Points: Not applicable to Connections object.

Display Filter During Solve: Appears for Explicit Dynamics systems only.

FE Connection Visibility

Activate Visibility

Display

Draw Connections Attached To

Line Color

Color: Displays if the Line Color property is set to Manual.

Visible on Results

Line Thickness

Display Type

Tree Dependencies

Insertion Methods

  • Automatically inserted under a Solution object of a new environment or of an environment included in a database from a previous release.

  • Right-click Connections object or in the Geometry window and select Insert > Solution Information.

Right-click Options

In addition to common right-click options, relevant right-click options for this object include:

  • Evaluate All Contact Trackers

  • Interrupt Solution

  • Stop Solution

  • Retrieve

  • Get Results

Some options may only be available when you are performing a solution on a remote machine.

API Reference

See the Solution Information section of the ACT API Reference Guide for specific scripting information.

Additional Related Information

See the Specifying Solution Information section.