Version 4 beta

Victor

For strain and plastic strain, I'll look into having them turned on by default for nonlinear. Thanks for the suggestion Sergio and VMH.

You can add another step using the custom step contents by inputting something like this:
*END STEP
*STEP,NLGEOM=YES
*STATIC
*CLOAD
3,2,2

But for loading and unloading, I usually use multiple time steps defined the usual Mecway way which ends up being *AMPLITUDE tables in the .inp file rather than multiple step sections. That also gives you finer control in case it doesn't converge properly in a single time step.

Good idea about showing a whole table of units. Only that one system is allowed in the custom step contents and custom model definition inputs - m,kg,s,N,Pa,K,N.m, etc.

Sergio

Great, I will explore the two options. Adding a new step open a brad band of different simulations, by example thermal restrain, swage operations and so on before main loading.

Is possible to copy the whole "simulation" in the same file and then have two results, maybe one computed with Mecway solver and other with CCX?

Regards

VMH

Thanks! This will be very helpful.

Victor

I don't want to have it store two sets of results in the same file because that starts to become a kind of file management task which would add complexity and need to be learnt without adding much power. Hopefully just saving two copies in different files will do instead.