Hi all
I want to stop a belt conveyor. I tried to unfix a "mesh/surface" and then fix it with a new surface_vel, but an error message shows up. 
here is my in file:
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fix		belt_up all mesh/surface file belt_up_min.stl type 3 scale 0.001 rotate axis 0 -1 0 angle 0 surface_vel 0 0 0
fix		inface all mesh/surface/planar file ins_min.stl type 2 scale 0.001 rotate axis 0 -1 0 angle 0
fix		chute_a all mesh/surface/stress file chute_a_0.stl type 2 scale 0.001 wear finnie
fix		chute_b all mesh/surface/stress file chute_b_0.stl type 2 scale 0.001 wear finnie
fix		faldon all mesh/surface/stress file faldonmin_0x0.stl type 2 scale 0.001 wear finnie
fix		belt_low all mesh/surface file belt_low_min_0x0.stl type 3 scale 0.001 surface_vel 0 0 0
fix granwalls all wall/gran/hertz/history mesh n_meshes 5 meshes belt_up chute_a chute_b faldon belt_low
#distributions for insertion
fix	pts1 all particletemplate/sphere 1 atom_type 1 density constant 2500 radius constant 0.010
fix	pts2 all particletemplate/sphere 1 atom_type 1 density constant 2500 radius constant 0.0125
fix	pts3 all particletemplate/sphere 1 atom_type 1 density constant 2500 radius constant 0.014
fix	pts4 all particletemplate/sphere 1 atom_type 1 density constant 2500 radius constant 0.015
fix	pts5 all particletemplate/sphere 1 atom_type 1 density constant 2500 radius constant 0.016
fix	pts6 all particletemplate/sphere 1 atom_type 1 density constant 2500 radius constant 0.017
fix	pdd1 all particledistribution/discrete 1.  6 pts1 0.2 pts2 0.2  pts3 0.2 pts4 0.2 pts5 0.1 pts6 0.1
#region and insertion
group		nve_group region reg	
#particle insertion
fix			ins nve_group insert/stream seed 1000 distributiontemplate pdd1 &
				maxattempt 100 nparticles 10000000 massrate 167 overlapcheck yes vel constant 2.2 0.0 0 all_in yes &
				insertion_face inface extrude_length 0.5
#apply nve integration to all particles that are inserted as single particles
fix		integr all nve/sphere	
#output settings, include total thermal energy
compute		1 all erotate/sphere
thermo_style	custom step atoms ke c_1 vol cpu
thermo		100
thermo_modify	lost ignore norm no
compute_modify	thermo_temp dynamic yes
#insert the first particles so that dump is not empty
run		1
run		200
unfix	        belt_up
#fix		belt_up2 all mesh/surface/stress file chute_a_0.stl type 2 scale 0.001 wear finnie
fix		belt_up2 all mesh/surface file belt_up_min.stl type 3 scale 0.001 rotate axis 0 -1 0 angle 0 surface_vel 0 0 0
run 1000
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can anyone give me some guidelines?
Best
      
ckloss_ | Mon, 01/13/2014 - 14:48
Hi g.garate,
Hi g.garate,
you have to unfix all the meshes, the fix wall/gran/* and then re-instantiate them the way you want
Christoph