{"id":395987,"date":"2024-12-02T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/395987\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:12:08","slug":"395987","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/395987\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: mechanical scripting support to include time and spatial varying load."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;There&#8217;s no way to create a function ahead of time that will automatically update the forces during solution.&nbsp; The only way to do what you describe is a brute force method.&nbsp; The duration of the analysis is broken up into many short time steps.&nbsp; A commands object is executed at the beginning of each time step which interrogates the previous solution and updates the force values with APDL commands.&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-395987","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/395987","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\/395987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}