Setup

Home Screen Process Flowchart

1. Double click on the crash box.                                                                 

A window Stage crash shall open.

Define Input File Name and Command

1. Select the Setup tab.
2. For Command specify the LS-DYNA executable ls-dyna (This name can be different on your computer). On Windows, the command has to be specified using the absolute path.
3. For Input File browse the parameterized file main.k. Parameters in LS-DYNA input files can be defined using *PARAMETER or the LS-OPT parameter format <<>>.
4. For efficient usage of the computing power from the machine, choice on handling number of concurrent jobs can be made suitably in this section. (E.g., if the machine has 4CPUs, and to run each job on a single CPU : Units per job = 1, Global limit = 4).

The parameters located in the selected Input File can be visualized in the adjoining tab Parameters.