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[Sergio Blanco]

Deal all,

I'm sorry if I am asking a very basic question, but I am not able to solve it alone. I have a non-linear problem (fracture SMART) that fails to converge at certain time step. I'd like to access the results to the previously converged time steps but I am not able to do so. I can only access the results from all time steps if the problem success to converge until the end of the simulation. Is there any way or option so I can access the previously converged results from my simulation even though at some point the simulation fails to converge?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Sergio.

[Bill Bulat]

Hello Sergio,

No apologies necessary - this kind of code behavior mystifies me as well. I'll offer you two options:

1) You could very likely open the incomplete results file in MAPDL. From the start button, choose ANSYS yyyy release > Mechanical APDL Product Launcher. In the launcher dialogue, browse to the Solver Files Directory used by your project and click Run:

 

When the MAPDL GUI comes up you can read any of the existing results from the results file for post processing:

 

 

You can then create countour plots of results and reorient the viewing direction with the Pan-Zoom-Rotate dialogue box:

2) Read the results file into Mechanical (click on the "Toolbox" icon in the image below):

 

 

In the drop-down, choose "Read Results Files". You might want to locate/review the Help article below:

 

I hope this helps,

 

Bill