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You may optionally use the Database Name input to select the Flexcom database output file(s) from which Clear is to retrieve the positions or motions of the elements of the set. Different file names can be specified for each element set, for the case where the two structures under consideration are analysed in separate Flexcom models. When the two structures are analysed in a single Flexcom model, you input the same name for both sets. This is in fact the default — when you input a file name for the first element set, the database name for the second set defaults to this name. So there is no need to input the database name twice if the two structures are in a single Flexcom model. Where this is not the case, you simply input a separate name for each database. You can also leave the Database Name inputs blank. When you do this, Clear assumes that the two structures are in a single Flexcom model, and that the database file name is the same as the generic name of the Clear run. There is one final point to note about the case where Clear is reading from two databases rather than one. When two structures are analysed individually, the likelihood if one or both analysis used a variable timestep is that the results are at different solution times. In this case Clear must interpolate between results at different solution times in order to perform meaningful calculations. The program does this automatically and without user intervention, but it should be borne in mind that this can occasionally increase the Clear runtimes significantly compared to the case where the two sets of results are in a single database. This is because of the increased number of times Clear must read database output.
•*DATABASE is used to specify the names of the Flexcom database files on which the Clear analysis is to be based.