Built, Computed, and Plotted Data
A significant contribution to the overall disk space required for storing your models comes from generated simulation data. This includes built geometries and meshes, computed solutions, and results plots — built, computed, and plotted data for short. For large models, it is often unfeasible for you or your organization to keep this data around for longer periods of time, preferring instead to regenerate the data by rerunning a simulation as needed.
There are two ways in which you can avoid storing built, computed, and plotted data in your databases:
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Exclude the data altogether already when saving a model to the database. See the Save section of The Root Settings Windows in the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual.
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Delete the data directly in the database by clearing it from all model versions that reference it — see also Clearing Computed Data as a Maintenance Operation.
You can see the COMSOL Multiphysics version that a model version was saved in from the Saved in field in Model Settings. This is useful when you want to regenerate built, computed, or plotted data for a model version whose data is no longer present in the database using that same COMSOL Multiphysics version.
To clear built, computed, and plotted data from model versions in the database, you can for example:
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Right-click versions in the The Versions Window for a model and select Clear Computed Data ().
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Select one of the options in the Clear Computed Data menu () on The Maintenance Toolbar, which is available for versions in The Maintenance Window when the window is focused.
Clearing Computed Data as a Maintenance Operation