{"id":378222,"date":"2024-08-13T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/378222\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:15:59","slug":"378222","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/378222\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Set up time steps more efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;In a native Mechanical convection load, you could also paste the data from Excel by selecting rows, then right clicking to choose &#8220;Paste Cell&#8221;:&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/13-08-2024-1723590650-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could also use python scripting in Mechanical to create the convection load and populate the table data. Table data uses a &#8220;field&#8221; variable. See all the sections under:&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/ansyshelp.ansys.com\/account\/secured?returnurl=\/Views\/Secured\/corp\/v242\/en\/act_script\/mech_apis_BoundaryConditions.html&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-378222","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/378222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/378222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}