# How to use \*restart?

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**Category:** Model setup\
**Created:** [May 15, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://calculix.discourse.group/t/how-to-use-restart/1656 "2023-05-15T02:45:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://calculix.discourse.group/t/how-to-use-restart/1656/3 "2023-05-15T22:13:24Z")

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@Phonix  
Hereby a very short example of using restart in the same data set. It’s a little more tricky if you want to use 2 different data sets and restart with the read option. First moving the end of the bar in the x-direction and afterwards from this new position in the z-direction

\*NODE  
1,1,0,0  
2,1,100,0  
3,0,100,0  
4,0,0,0  
5,1,0,1  
6,1,100,1  
7,0,100,1  
8,0,0,1  
9,1,50,0  
10,0.5,100,0  
11,0,50,0  
12,0.5,0,0  
13,1,50,1  
14,0.5,100,1  
15,0,50,1  
16,0.5,0,1  
17,1,0,0.5  
18,1,100,0.5  
19,0,100,0.5  
20,0,0,0.5

\*Nset, Nset=fixed  
1,12,4,20,8,16,5,17

\*Nset, Nset=moved  
2,10,3,19,7,14,6,18

\*ELEMENT,TYPE=C3D20, ELSET=Eall  
1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12  
13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20

\*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=Eall, Material=Steel\_S355

\*\*======== Steel\_S355 ========  
\*Material, Name=Steel\_S355  
\*DENSITY  
8500.0  
\*ELASTIC, TYPE=ISO  
210E9,0.3

\*Restart, write  
\*STEP, Nlgeom, inc=100  
\*STATIC  
0.2, 1, 1E-05, 0.2  
\*Boundary  
fixed,1,3,0  
moved,1,1,5

\*NODE FILE  
U,RF  
\*El file  
S, E  
\*END STEP

\*Restart  
\*STEP, Nlgeom, inc=100  
\*STATIC  
0.2, 1, 1E-05, 0.2  
\*Boundary  
fixed,1,3,0  
moved,3,3,5

\*NODE FILE  
U,RF  
\*El file  
S, E  
\*END STEP

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