{"id":49630,"date":"2020-11-06T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-restart-with-prep7-commands\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T11:49:46","slug":"how-to-restart-with-prep7-commands","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-restart-with-prep7-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"How to restart with \/prep7 commands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,nCurrently I am working on a problem that considers both NLADAPTIVE and element deletion command snippets in Mechanical. Unfortunately NLADAPTIVE does not support EKILL commands for element deletion. For that reason I would like to delete elements via the EDELE command. As this command is only valid in the \/prep7 processor, I have to switch processors between loadsteps. The model consists of a gradually increasing displacement over multiple loadsteps. The problem I encounter when using the EDELE command in combination with ANTYPE restart is that the subsequent loadstep is considered loadstep n=1 (start at initial loading condition), while this should be n+1 (continue loading conditions).nI&#8217;m fairly new in writing my own commands, so I would like to learn how to properly deploy a restart for a subsequent loadstep that takes into account the adjustments (element deletion) made in the \/prep7 environment in order to continue the simulation with the new mesh. Help is greatly appreciated!nKind regards,nPauln<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-49630","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-adaptive-meshing","topic-tag-element-birth-and-death","topic-tag-preprocessing","topic-tag-restart","topic-tag-restarting-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["21869"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":["?^\u0007?"],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1773"],"_bbp_subscription":["257143"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["49630"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["23687","183003"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["132415"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["132415"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-11-09 09:23:21"]},"test":"paulvh"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/49630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/49630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}