Hallo Badhani,

 Usuallay there are two functions which could be used:

-OP=MOD (modifing the step)

´-OP´=NEW (creating new step whithout the assumption of the first)

i advice you to work also with restart file. check the analysis manual in abaqus

Hallo Badhani,

 Usuallay there are two functions which could be used:

-OP=MOD (modifing the step)

´-OP´=NEW (creating new step whithout the assumption of the first)

i advice you to work also with restart file. check the analysis manual in abaqus

Hallo Badhani,

 Usuallay there are two functions which could be used:

-OP=MOD (modifing the step)

´-OP´=NEW (creating new step whithout the assumption of the first)

i advice you to work also with restart file. check the analysis manual in abaqus

It is not clear what you wanted. But what I get from your question is you want to edit the inp file and add more than 1 steps by editing the inp file. So, to do that you can just add *STEP......*END STEP, and start a new step by again *STEP....*END STEP. Here is an example:

*STEP

**Add boundary, load, and necessary things

....

*END STEP

** 2nd step will start here

*STEP

** Add boundary,load an necessary things for this step

...

*END STEP

.........

*STEP

...

*END STEP

Hope It helps!!

Thanks for your valuable replies, Actually i want to depict the construction phase of DAM for that i am using the Model change feature depicting each lift activation.So I have to add around 216 steps for representing 216 lifts.Doing it manually will be tedious task.I have not yet submitted my job so its inp is not yet generated.So i finally did that by recording a single step and then edit it and applying loop to it and thereafter running the script.

Dear @Badhani

Can you kindly explain.. little bit in detail how you have done it? It will be very helpful for me..