How to use the SAVE command?

I am trying to generate the time vs acceleration values from dynamic analysis in staadpro connect edition. In a forum discussion, i have come across a solution of using the SAVE command. It was mentioned to use 

TYPE 1 FORCE SAVE 

or 

TYPE 1 ACCELERATION SAVE

Can anyone help me with how i am supposed to do this?

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  • In the Postprocessing workflow go to Layouts -> Acceleration. O the right hand side you will see 3 graphs - one of those will be a Time-Acceleration graph. Right click on it and select an option 'Save data in a text file'. This will save time vs acceleration data in txt file.



  • I know how to get it manually. I want to generate this file automatically whenever the analysis is run. Is there any OpenStaad function that can automatically get these t vs acc values would be optimal. But I read in a post from 2013 that there was no function in OpenStaad that can get these values and you could instead automaticaly generate a file with these values using the SAVE command and you can then parse them to get the values into Excel.

    Is there any OpenStaad function that can get these values? If not please share how get the file with these values automatically whenever you run the analysis.

    I would highly appreciate if you could share the documentation or manual for the latest Openstaad or staadpro connect version.