ABAQUS Volume II: I–Z - Manual (Page 33)

*IMPORT
9.4 *IMPORT: Import information from a previous ABAQUS/Explicit or
ABAQUS/Standard analysis.
If this is an ABAQUS/Explicit analysis, this option is used to define the time in a previous ABAQUS/Standard
analysis at which the specified node and element information is imported. If this is an ABAQUS/Standard
analysis, this option is used to define the time in a previous ABAQUS/Standard or ABAQUS/Explicit analysis
at which the specified node and element information is imported. The *IMPORT option must be used in
conjunction with the *INSTANCE option when importing a part instance from a previous analysis.
Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit
Type: Model data
Level: Part instance
References:
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“Transferring results between ABAQUS analyses: overview,” Section 9.2.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis
User’s Manual
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*INSTANCE
Required parameter:
UPDATE
Set UPDATE=NO to continue the analysis without resetting the reference configuration.
Set UPDATE=YES to continue the analysis by resetting the reference configuration to be the
imported configuration. In this case displacement and strain values are calculated from the new
reference configuration.
Optional, mutually exclusive parameters:
INCREMENT
When importing an analysis from ABAQUS/Standard into ABAQUS/Explicit or from one
ABAQUS/Standard analysis into another ABAQUS/Standard analysis, set this parameter equal to
the increment of the specified step on the ABAQUS/Standard restart file from which the analysis
is to be imported. If this parameter is omitted, the analysis is imported from the last available
increment of the specified step.
INTERVAL
This parameter applies only to ABAQUS/Standard analyses.
When importing an analysis from ABAQUS/Explicit into ABAQUS/Standard, set this
parameter equal to the interval of the specified step on the ABAQUS/Explicit state file from which
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