This means that, for example, you are not restricted to regularly spaced times you can have frames from different simulation files in the same replay you can include frames showing the static configuration of a model you may vary the view size, view angles and view centre to achieve panning, rotating and zooming effects. Custom replays are those where you have complete control over frames which make up the replay.If you have a time history graph window open when the replay is run, and the simulation was conducted in the time domain, then the replay time is indicated on the graph. For time domain analyses, this type of replay can only cover the period that has already been simulated. Active simulation replays show the currently active simulation over a specified continuous time period at regularly spaced intervals.Replays are a natural result of time domain simulation, but it is also possible to synthesise replays following frequency domain simulation. There are various controls and parameters that allow you to control a replay.
A replay is therefore like a short length of film, with each frame of the film being a snapshot of a model as it was at a given time. A replay is a sequence of 3D views shown one after another to give an animation.
