ELEMQUAL

Bulk Data Entry Resets the default values of the warning and error bound limits for element quality check.

Format

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ELEMQUAL	`ETYPE`	`PTYPE`	`LTYPE`	`V1`	`V2`

For CTRIA3 elements, change the upper limit of aspect ratio for error message to 300.0 (default is 500).

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)
ELEMQUAL	TRIA3	ARATIO	ERROR		300.0

For CTETRA elements, change the bound limits of collapse for warning message to 0.01 and 10.0 (default lower and upper limits are 0.001 and 100.0).

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)
ELEMQUAL	TETRA	COLLAPSE	WARNING	0.01	10.

Field	Contents	SI Unit Example
`ETYPE`	Element type. Valid entries are: TRIA3 CTRIA3 QUAD4 CQUAD4 TETRA 1st-order CTETRA TET10 2nd-order CTETRA PENTA 1st-order CPENTA PENT15 2nd-order CPENTA HEXA 1st-order CHEXA HEX20 2nd-order CHEXA PYRA 1st-order CPYRA PYRA13 2nd-order CPYRA TAXI3 1st-order CTAXI or CTRIAX6 TAXI6 2nd-order CTAXI or CTRIAX6 QAXI4 1st-order CQAXI QAXI8 2nd-order CQAXI TPSTN3 1st-order CTPSTN TPSTN6 2nd-order CTPSTN QPSTN4 1st-order CQPSTN QPSTN8 2nd-order CQPSTN GASK8 CGASK8 GASK16 CGASK16 GASK6 CGASK6 GASK12 CGASK12 No default
`PTYPE`	Geometric property type. Valid entries are: ARATIO Aspect Ratio SKEW Skew Angle TAPER Face Taper WARP Warp Angle TWIST Twist Angle EDGE Edge Angle COLLAPSE ANGLE Vertex Angle HOENOR Hoe Normal Offset HOETAN Hoe Tangent Offset No default
`LTYPE`	Bound limits type. WARNING ERROR No default
`V1`	Lower bound value. No default (Real)
`V2`	Upper bound value. No default (Real)

Element quality checks and their default settings are described in the Element Quality Check section.
All specified values (V1 and V2) are checked against the corresponding limits used for validity check. Data outside the validity range is ignored.