Introduction

The PLAXIS Output program is the main application to review and extract results from a PLAXIS analysis. Typically, you can find all data regarding soil and structures in various plots and detailed tables as well as project-related items in the available menus.

It is also possible to use the PLAXIS command line in order to retrieve information directly, which can be useful to any automation process.

In this article, we will focus on the InputSettings object that contains all the information regarding the settings defined in the Input program stored per phase.

InputSettings object

To retrieve any information about the Input settings of any PLAXIS phase, you can use the echo command. The InputSettings is an object which is part of the Phases object. This means that it is possible to use the following syntax in the command line:

echo Phase_1.InputSettings

The InputSettings object contains various properties that can be seen in the Phases window in Input, such as:

• DeformCalcType: deformation calculation type in General category
• TimeInterval: (time) value in General category
• IgnoreSuction: (True/False) setting to ignore or take suction into account in the Deformation control parameters category
• UseUpdatedMesh: (True/False) setting to update the mesh in Deformation control parameters category
• And much more…

Therefore, via the command line it is possible to directly query each of these properties as follows:

echo Phase_1.InputSettings.DeformCalcType

For more information, you can check our Output object reference under the Help menu (Command reference).