General

General information

A model is built up by a series of commands.

*COMMAND
parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, ...

Abbreviations

Abbreviation
Description
bc
Boundary condition
cid
Curve ID
coid
Command ID
csysid
Coordinate system ID
did
Damage command ID
direc
Direction
enid
Entity ID
entype
Entity type
eosid
Equation-of-state ID
fid
Function ID
gid
Geomedivy ID
mfid
Merge failure ID
mid
Material ID
nid
Node ID
nsid
Node set ID
pid
Part ID
setid
Set ID
tid
Thermal property ID
$sf$
Scale factor
t${}_{beg}$
Command activation time
t${}_{end}$
Command deactivation time
$tol$
Tolerance

User input abbreviations

Abbreviations are also used to simplify the user input. As an example, to constrain the motion of a part with ID=20 in x-direction, the command BC_MOTION is used in the following way:

*BC_MOTION
P, 20, X

Here P, 20 refers to a part 20 and X refers to the x-direction. A complete list of user input abbreviations follow below.

Abbreviation
Description
E
Element
ES
Element set
F
Element face
FS
Element face set
G
Geomedivy
GS
Geomedivy set
M
Material
N
Node
NS
Node set
P
Part
PS
Part set
ALL
Everything
A
Acceleration
V
Velocity
D
Displacement
X
x-coordinate
Y
y-coordinate
Z
z-coordinate