{"id":379555,"date":"2024-08-21T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/379555\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T05:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:22:31","slug":"379555","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/379555\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Set up time steps more efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Not really if you have multiple load steps, and it sounds like the reason you want to do this is because you have a large amount of load steps. You would need to completely replace all the time stepping and solve commands in APDL. You could use a *DO loop for this. This will overide all the solve commands that Mechanical writes for each load step and could really mess things up with your loading for any loading that changes between load steps, such as activation state of loads\/supports. 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