left-most section

Contains a tree structure with various Abaqus history options. Selecting an option from the tree changes the dialog layout.

middle section

Contains the corresponding collectors in a table and relevant buttons to create, review, organize, reorder, rename, or delete these collectors. All loads must be organized into load collectors and all output requests must be under output blocks.  When you select a load type, output request type, or interface control from the tree, the load collector table, output block table, or interfaces table is displayed in the middle section.

right-most section

Contains the various tabs and options to define, edit, review, or delete the currently selected tree item. If the tree item needs to be organized in a collector (such as a load or output request), a collector must be selected from the middle section.

Review

Reviews all load collectors in the current load step. All loads in the load collectors are highlighted in the graphic area. The highlighted loads show through the solid mesh in performance graphics. If a load is defined with set, the underlying nodes or elements are highlighted.  Right-click on the Review button to clear the highlighted selections.

Text

Reviews the current load step in a text window

Synchronize

Updates the Step Manager with the current database.  If you manually create, update, or delete load steps, load collectors, output blocks, groups, or entity sets from panels while the Step Manager is open, click Synchronize to update the Step Manager with the new changes.

Close

Closes the Load Step window and opens the Step Manager window.