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In your working folder, make a copy of the log file shell_step6.lgw and call it shell_step6.inp. The inp extension signifies that it is an input file. Bring up your pet text editor and load in shell_step6.inp. The top several lines, along with annotations, are shown below:
You can run ANSYS in the interactive mode or batch mode (in which you do not use the GUI). By default, ANSYS assumes you'll be running in batch mode; so it'll put a couple of batch-mode commands at the top of your log file. Since we are going to use the input file in the interactive mode, delete the first two commands above (/BATCH and /input) that pertain to the batch mode.
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