Recorder Object

The recorder object monitors user-defined parameters in the model during the analysis. This, for example, could be the displacement history at a node in a transient analysis, or the entire state of the model at each step of the solution procedure. Several Recorder objects are created by the analyst to monitor the analysis.

• What does a recorder do?

• Monitors the state of a domain component (node, element, etc.) during an analysis
• Writes this state to a file or to a database at selected intervals during the analysis
• There are also recorders for plotting and monitoring residuals

Once in a file, the information can be easily post-processed.