Description: In ABAQUS/Standard you can now specify the frequency of output to the results (.fil) file in terms of the number of intervals and the frequency of output to the output database (.odb) file in terms of the number of intervals and at regular time intervals. These frequency options had previously been available only for ABAQUS/Explicit procedures. You can also control whether the output should be written at the exact specified times or at the increments immediately after the specified times. In ABAQUS/Standard if the output frequency is requested at exact times, in general ABAQUS will adjust the time increments to write output at these times, which may increase the number of increments required to complete the analysis.

In both ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit you can create a set of arbitrary time points and then request field or history output for every time point in the set. This option enables you to create a customized output frequency so that you can request more frequent output during a critical period in your analysis.

In addition, for supported procedures in ABAQUS/Standard you can specify the output frequency to the restart file in terms of the number of intervals and the output frequency to the output database in terms of the number of intervals, regular time intervals, or arbitrary time points. For the complete list of supported procedures for these options, see “Restarting an analysis,” Section 9.1.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual, and “Output to the output database,” Section 4.1.3 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual, respectively.

Step module:
  OutputField output requestsCreate
  OutputHistory output requestsCreate
  OutputTime PointsCreate