I'm looking to double check, when working with various *STATIC general steps, is there a way to have various steps analyze the model about the initial undeformed/loaded base state, rather than having the starting condition for each step being the ending condition from the last step?
I understand this can be done with a perturbation step (*STEP, PERTURBATION, *STATIC), however I'd like to run multiple load cases, all with reference to the initial undeformed/loaded base state, without being limited to the restrictions associated with a perturbation step such as geometric nonlinearity (NLGEOM=YES).
Thanks in advance.
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