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      <div class="title_refTopic" id="xps10_pagetitle">OTIME </div>
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      <h4 class="refClassification">Output Time Set </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Selects a set of times for output requests. </p>
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      <div class="refCategoryContent"><pre class="indent">OTIME=ALL
OTIME=15</pre></div>
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                     <p class="para_td">Set identification number of a previously appearing SET command. Output for times closest to those given on this SET command will be computed. (Integer&gt;0) </p>
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               <p class="para_item">If the OTIME command is not supplied in the Case Control Section, then output for all times will be computed. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">This command is particularly useful for requesting a subset of the output (e.g., stresses at only peak times, etc.). </p>
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               <p class="para_item">This command can be used in conjunction with the MODACC module to limit the times for which modal acceleration computations are performed. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">If this command is specified in more than one subcase in the modal solution sequences, then it is recommended that the first subcase contain OTIME=ALL and subsequent subcases contain OTIME=n. Also, data recovery requests should be specified only in the subsequent subcases. For example: </p><pre class="indent">
SUBCASE 1
    OTIME ALL
SUBCASE 2
    OTIME=10 
    SET10=. . .
    DISP=ALL
SUBCASE 3
    OTIME=20
    SET 20=. . .
    STRESS=ALL</pre></li>
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               <p class="para_item">The OTIME command is not effective in nonlinear transient analysis. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">In superelement analysis, the set definition of an OTIME request for an upstream superelement will not be honored unless a similar request appears for its downstream neighbor. The downstream request should either be comprised of the union of all upstream requests, or left blank, as the OTIME default is ALL. Note that the program does not check to see if this condition is satisfied. </p>
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