[Mesa-users] How to save MESA plots to an image file

[Willie Strickland]

To follow-up on Hector’s response.  I routinely use

    pgstar_flag = .true.
    save_pgstar_files_when_terminate = .true.

in the &star_job portion of my inlist.

Using the HR plot as an example, if you set the corresponding flag in the &pgstar section (or in your separate inlist_pgstar)

         HR_file_flag = .true.
         HR_file_interval = 100000 ! set to large number to just save the last file

Only the last HR plot image will be saved.

I do this regularly when I am working on the logistics of getting something working and am repeating the same run in a batch.  It allows me the graphical reference to compare from run to run.

Willie




> On Aug 17, 2018, at 12:31 PM, Héctor MR via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
>   Hi Nicholas,
> 
> is there anyway to save the plots that MESA makes during a calculation to an image file that can be viewed later. So far I have been screenshoting the plot windows.
> 
>   You should set *_file_flag = .true. in whichever PGSTAR plot you have (TRho_profile, History_Track1,...). I encourage you to look at the PGSTAR documentation (http://mesa.sourceforge.net/pgstar_defaults.html#file_output <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/pgstar_defaults.html#file_output>) for more information. You can even put all your files together and create a movie.
> 
> 
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>   H.
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