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[Stefan Lahres]

I have an AIM project with two simulations on the same geometry (see screen capture1). So the workflow splits into 2 Physics. When I delete the Physics 'material combination 1' and the corresponding Results the Physics 'material combination 2' gets outdated and the material assignment in that Physics 'material combination 2' gets lost and must be completely reassigned manually.

Is this a bug or a feature?  ;-)

Is there a workflow to remove simulations without loosing unaffected information in other simulations.

[Naresh Patre]

Hello  Stefan Lahres

When you already have a simulation setup (Geometry, Physics, Results) and you "manually" add a new Physics task to the existing geometry task, the new Physics task contains a predefined material assignment which is a copy of material assignment from the 1st Physics task. So the same material assignment is referenced in both Physics. Due to this when you delete the 1st Physics the material assignment in 2nd physics gets lost and the Physics task becomes outdated.

The above issue can be overcome by a couple of ways listed below:

1. When you manually add a new Physics task to existing geometry, delete the predefined material assignment and add a new one.

2. Instead of adding a new Physics task, add a template from the templates page. While adding, you can use "Existing Task" option so that the new template gets connected to the existing geometry. The Physics task of this newly added template also has a material assignment by default (Structural Steel) but it is not a copy of material assignment from 1st Physics.