Hello Ben,
Yes, this is what I had in mind with birth and death. *BOUNDARY_SPC is used to fix degrees of freedom (DOFs) for some nodes in your model. You can have fixed or free DOFs. You can achieve the same with *BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION and settting the displacement to zero (fixed).
Let me know how it goes.
Reno.
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