47.3.2. 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'