Adding, Editing, or Deleting Steps

You can configure new simulation steps and edit or delete existing steps.

It helps to plan out your step sequence before adding steps. You can add new steps after any existing step, as long as the added step type is allowed there; but you cannot reorder the existing steps. You can delete any step as long as the remaining steps are allowed in the sequence that remains.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Steps and Analysis Procedures

Add a Step

Before you begin: If there are existing steps, use the context selector to open the one that you want to precede the new step you are adding.
Tip: To add a new first step, add it as the second step and then delete the existing first step.
  1. From the Procedures section of the action bar, click the icon for the step type you want.
  2. Enter the step options in the dialog box, and click OK.

Edit a Step

  1. Move to the Procedures section of the action bar.
  2. From the context selector, choose the step you want to modify.

    If you have more than one analysis case in your simulation scenario, be sure to select the one containing the appropriate step.

  3. Click Edit Current Step .
    The details of the step appear in the dialog box.
  4. Modify the options and parameters as desired, and click OK.

Delete a Step

  1. Move to the Procedures section of the action bar.
  2. From the context selector, choose the step you want to delete.
  3. Click Delete Current Step .

Steps later in the simulation sequence are deleted only if they are highly dependent on the deleted step. Features created in the deleted steps are removed from the simulation scenario.