Restart Function (ICF)

RecurDyn supports Restart Function. It is very useful with following cases.

• When the simulation is finished abnormally.

• When the user wants to simulate the model until the more end time although the simulation is finished normally.

In order to use the Restart Function, the icf file is required additionally and an additional command line has to be written in the rmd file.

• The icf file is created in GUI. For more information, click here.

• Edit the rmd file and input the string “INPUT/ICFILE = ‘InitialConditionFile.icf’” as shown below:

!================== OUTPUT ====================!

OUTPUT/GRSAVE

, RPLTSAVE = TRUE

, RADSAVE = TRUE

, REQSAVE = TRUE

, OUTSAVE = TRUE

, MSGSAVE = TRUE

, RANSAVE = TRUE

, RPMXSAVE = TRUE

, MODELVERIFICATIONMSG = FALSE

, JOINTINFORMATIONMSG = FALSE

, CONSTRAINTINFORMATIONMSG = FALSE

, REDUNDANTCONSTRAINTMSG = TRUE

, INDEPENDENTCOORDINATEMSG = FALSE

, SOLVERINFORMATIONMSG = FALSE

, ANALYSISINFORMATIONMSG = TRUE

, INTEGRATORINFORMATIONMSG = TRUE

, CONSTRAINTVIOLATIONMSG = FALSE

, ANALYSISPROCESSMSG = TRUE

, STPMSG = TRUE

, STEP_PLOT_FACTOR = 1

, MATCH_ENDTIME = TRUE

, SETTIMEOFFSETTOICFTIME

, SAVEICFPLOTSTEP

INPUT/ICFILE = ‘InitialConditionFile.icf’

Note

If using this function with Particleworks, an additional work is required. For more information about the work, click here. Before simulating using the ICF file, the user has to copy particle folder as another name, because existing data is overwritten to new simulation data. For more information, click here. And if the user wants to load former simulation data, change the name of the copied folder to “particle”.