How to suppress multiple time-steps in a load object based on some logic?

I want to suppress the step when displacement reaches zero or below -0.1. However, the example is just a simplified version of displacement input, the actual one is far more complicated.

Can I suppress certain time steps as one go, rather than doing individually and manually. Because it will too time consuming.

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Ayush Kumar

One can use SetPropertyByStep function of the internal load object and build a logic around it. Example code below suppresses all the steps with YComponent values below zero:

displacement = ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.ActiveObjects[0]
original_step_values = displacement.YComponent.Output.DiscreteValues
for index, entry in enumerate(original_step_values, start=1):
    if entry.Value < 0.0:
        displacement.InternalObject.SetPropertyByStep(index, "Active", False)

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Ayush Kumar

One can use SetPropertyByStep function of the internal load object and build a logic around it. Example code below suppresses all the steps with YComponent values below zero:

displacement = ExtAPI.DataModel.Tree.ActiveObjects[0]
original_step_values = displacement.YComponent.Output.DiscreteValues
for index, entry in enumerate(original_step_values, start=1):
    if entry.Value < 0.0:
        displacement.InternalObject.SetPropertyByStep(index, "Active", False)