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Caching simulation results

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Caching simulation results

- [Instructor] Now that we have our whole dynamic simulation built and set up in the way we want it, what I'm going to show you how we do now is how we cache this out because when we're done with the simulation we want to write that to disk so that when we are working we don't have to ever recalculate that or end up getting different results because something changed. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into the wall node here, so what we've got, let me close the parameters window, is we've got our dop import node here. And so this is bringing in the geometry from simulation, so hit P and you can see as with many nodes in here there's quite a number of options, we're just going to look at just a few that are important to us. And you can see there's a few different import styles and by default this is saying fetch geometry from dop network, so basically what you can think of is this is we're sending geometry to the dop network, it's getting simulated and then we're pulling the…

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