"Export Central" is a versatile tool for managing your entire project structure. Though it is a complex and multi-featured tool, it is easy to handle and provides a rich set of data and file formats. Within "Export Central" you can specify almost everything regarding location, naming and attributes of your simulation data. By simply activating and deactivating export options with a mouse click, you have full control over the entire amount of files being written. For most of RealFlow’s objects, "Export Central" even provides more than one file format. The "Export Central" dialogue can be accessed via
Export > Export Central...
or
F12
By default RealFlow assumes that each new object in your scene is meant to be exported. Therefore new nodes are automatically activated in "Export Central" and theoretically you do not have to think about this process anymore. But, "Export Central" has so many features that it is worth taking a very close look at this window. To give you a better overview, this chapter is subdivided into several parts, according to RealFlow’s list of internal objects.
Large data files and multiple exports can significantly slow down RealFlow. Think carefully about which data types you want to store and always try to minimize the amount of exported files as much as possible. It is worth double-checking if a certain data type is really needed for processing simulation results!