Mechanical ACT Custom Load for Macro Encapsulation: define step

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I'm creating a custom load object through Mechanical ACT that encapsulates some APDL macro. This writes the APDL code to the ds.dat. How can I define at which step of a multistep analysis this macro gets written?

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  • Pernelle Marone-Hitz
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    The callback that inserts the APDL commands into the input deck should have an argument called SolverData. This argument contains the step number. You can do:
    if SolverData.CurrentStep==MyStep:
    stream.Writeline(allLines) # where allLines is your APDL macro.

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