Node and Element Groups

Some remarks concerning node and element groups are summarized within this section.

Node and element components or assemblies from components in ANSYS® are defined as follows:

CM, Cname, Entity 
CMGRP, Aname, Cnam1, Cnam2, Cnam3, Cnam4, Cnam5, Cnam6, 
Cnam7, Cnam8 
CMBLOCK,Cname,Entity,NUMITEMS

These components or assemblies are treated in SIMULIA Tosca Structure as node or element groups. These groups are loaded from the ANSYS® input file during the optimization preprocessing and these groups are available for further definition in the parameter file along with the groups ALL_NODES and ALL_ELEMENTS. If components containing nodes and elements have identical names in the ANSYS® input file, the endings _NODE and _ELEM are added to the specified group name during importation. This guarantees that the group can be identically identified by SIMULIA Tosca Structure.