Cleaning/Storing database for specific elements

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Is there a way to either store data in the database only for certain elements or clean up the database after solving and keep data only for requested elements? The existing clean database option does not do this, because it will remove all data for certain load cases; it does not let you pick individual elements and keep the rest untouched.

I am running models with many elements and many load cases, leading to very large databases. However, I am interested only in data for a couple very specific elements or a specific zone. Therefore, it would be much better if we could only keep the data for these elements, since large databases consume a lot of storage, and become very slow to read and handle.

Does anybody know a way to do this? Thanks!

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After step you want, example after generating geometry copy database with
+sys copy $(name).cdb $(name)_hehe.cdb
Then do some calculation in second database

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You can try “CDB CLEAN” to delete for instance (all) results from some loadcases. But I don’t know, if the CDB then becomes smaller and faster.

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Ok I understand, so what I would do:

  • generate geometry
  • copy geometry to second cdb
  • do your calculation
  • use DBMERG to copy selected results to second database
  • delete primary database