Combine Keyword-file and step-file

- August 12, 2025 at 10:53 am
  
  s.breyer
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  i made a simulation in LS-Dyna and i want to save the result from it to a Dynain-file. Is there a way to use this dynain file in Ansys Workbench or Mechanical AND add some other geometry (step-files). I know i can import keyword-files in workbench but i need to import some step-files additionally.
- August 12, 2025 at 8:51 pm
  
  Dennis Chen
  Subscriber
  
  Hello, you can use *include and *case commands to run sequential ls-dyna jobs using dynain files and each subsequent case you can activate new geometries by *including the mesh, node and sets and then call those sets in the master file into specific commands like contact boundary_prescribed_... etc. If you can describe in greater detail what you hope to accomplish, I can maybe make an example.
  the closest thing I've made is this part 2 of the wear analysis where I imported the worn geometry back to the original model to run a second set of wear cycles. What I imported is a dynain.geo file which is similar to what you may want to import, but a new k file representing the newly added step files.
  I hope this helps in someway
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOH75FgOu_8&t