Access tracer particle information during analysis

[JHuang2015]

Hi,

I am working on model-based control of ring rolling process, which need to access the tracer particle information as a feed back for the controller.

One problem I found is that no matter what frequency of the output of tracer particle information is requested, they can not be accessed during the analysis. The tracer particle information is only written to the 'odb' file when the step (analysis) is finished.

Is there any way to get the tracer particle information during the analysis? I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

JHuang