Output Display in INP File with Multiple Steps

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Hello,
I have one inp file of 5 step. I’ve written the output results in the 4th step, but it is still displaying results for both the 4th and 5th steps in prepomax and freecad. I expected it to only show the results for the 4th step. Is there something I’m missing here?

inp file is like this;-
**------------------------------------------------------------
*STEP, NLGEOM
*STATIC
*BOUNDARY, OP=NEW
Set-Ground, 1
Set-Ground, 2
Set-Ground, 3
Set-TopLayer-1, 1
Set-TopLayer-1, 2
Set-TopLayer-1, 3

*TEMPERATURE
Part-1, 201

*END STEP
**----------------------------------------------------
*STEP, NLGEOM
*STATIC
*BOUNDARY, OP=NEW
Set-Ground, 1
Set-Ground, 2
Set-Ground, 3
Set-TopLayer-2, 1
Set-TopLayer-2, 2
Set-TopLayer-2, 3

*TEMPERATURE
Part-2, 201

*END STEP
**----------------------------------------------------
*STEP, NLGEOM
*STATIC
*BOUNDARY, OP=NEW
Set-Ground, 1
Set-Ground, 2
Set-Ground, 3
Set-TopLayer-3, 1
Set-TopLayer-3, 2
Set-TopLayer-3, 3

*TEMPERATURE
Part-3, 201

*END STEP
**------------------------------------------------------------
*STEP, NLGEOM
*STATIC
*BOUNDARY, OP=NEW
Set-Ground, 1
Set-Ground, 2
Set-Ground, 3
Set-TopLayer-4, 1
Set-TopLayer-4, 2
Set-TopLayer-4, 3

*TEMPERATURE
Part-4, 201
** Outputs → frd file
*NODE FILE
U
*EL FILE
S, E, PEEQ
*NODE PRINT, NSET=ConstraintFixed, TOTALS=ONLY
RF

*END STEP

*STEP, NLGEOM
*STATIC
*BOUNDARY, OP=NEW
Set-Ground, 1
Set-Ground, 2
Set-Ground, 3
Set-TopLayer-5, 1
Set-TopLayer-5, 2
Set-TopLayer-5, 3

*TEMPERATURE
Part-5, 201

*END STEP

Thanks,
Bhavita

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If no *NODE FILE card is used within a step the selections of the previous step apply.

If no *EL FILE card is used within a step the selections of the previous step apply.

You can add dummy output requests in the last step to suppress output for it:

*Node file
*El file

or add frequency=0 to those keywords in the last step.