There are several sense switch controls that are available to interactively request LS-DYNA respond to certain pre-defined calls. The well documented sense-switch controls for Explicit calculations are listed below.
General Sense-Switches
Type Response ---- ------------------------------------------------------------ sw1 a restart file is written and ls-dyna terminates sw2 LS-DYNA responds with time and cycle numbers sw3 a restart file is written and ls-dyna continues calculations sw4 a plot state is written and ls-dyna continues calculations sw5 LS-DYNA enters interactive graphics phase swa LS-DYNA flushes all output i/o buffers stop/quit halt execution
However, for Implicit LS-DYNA jobs, the following sense-switch controls can be used which are not yet documented and will be included in the list of options in the future versions of LS-DYNA.
Implicit Sense-Switches
Type Response ---- ------------------------------------------------------------ con force convergence and continue iter toggle putting data into d3iter database lpri toggle level of printed information from linear equation solver nlpr toggle level of printed information from nonlinear equation solve
