Thanks for the response. I tried saving the results from one simulation and reloading them in a different one. The simulation is simple a one consisting of a sphere with a force applied to it.
It seems like the second simulation did not use the end conditions of the first one. The initial velocity in the second was zero and the starting point was at the origin.
Based off examples, it seems like it is most common to save, reload, and change values within the same script. If I want to observe the clearance between two objects and see how it changes as a spring constant varies, would you recommend varying the values within the same script, or is it possible to use different scripts as I initially attempted.
Having several simulations would be ideal as they could easily be loaded into design studies.
I do see from an example that it is possible to do this through two scripts. However, I am not sure if I am missing something and would like to hear if you recommend doing this through several scripts or one.
It's a good practice to have two separate scripts. In your RELOAD script, you have a couple of issues:
REL/SYSTEM, FILE = TEST_SIM.SAV, OUT = CASE1
INTEG/HHT,I3,ERR=2E-7,HMAX=1E-03
SIM/DYN,END = 2.0, STEPS = 0.001
It's missing the equal sign for the file, and the end time needs to be larger than the time of the current simulation time (i.e., the end of the SAVE simulation).
Thank you. I tried applying this concept to a more complicated model; however, I consistently get an error stating that the simulation has failed. Looking at the information window, it seems that everything ran normally but there are no are no results.
Attached are .txt files containing the save and reload commands. The script labeled "combined_sim" is the original simulation which does everything in one script and works normally.
Please let me know if I did not set up the other two scripts correctly.
