anicg Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 when to use .sim vs .bgeo.sc for simulations? Are there any benefits to using .sim instead of .bgeo.sc? Or is it simply .sim for simulations and .bgeo.sc for geometry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepu Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Sim stores a bunch of simulation objects and their data, so then you can continue to simulate later at a given point, is also way heavier on your HDD. So if you aren't planning in using for initial state or such uses like that I would just use .bgeo which is a compact binary format and lighter on your HDD for everything else. Edited May 30, 2020 by Sepu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 If your electricity is unreliable, you may want to write to .sim files, so you can pick up a simulation if your computer crashes hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anim Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) most commonly you'd just cache only data you care about to .bgeosc files, because caching to .sim files can be insanely heavy if you are worrying about crashing or want to continue the sim at later time, you can additionally enable checkpointing to .sim files and specifying Length and maybe Interval, to literally cache a few last .sim files only for the purpose of restoring, while your main cache is still .bgeosc Edited May 31, 2020 by anim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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