*populatemassthicknesstable()

Populates the element mass/thickness table.

Syntax

*populatemassthicknesstable ()

Type

HyperMesh Template Command

Description

Populates the element mass/thickness table. This table is used to improve the performance of summary calculations. This function is only available for "core" solver templates routinely maintained by Altair, including Abaqus, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, MADYMO, Marc, Nastran, OptiStruct, PAM-CRASH 2G, Radioss, and Samcef. It cannot be used with custom templates.

This command must be inside either a *components() or *elements() block and should be called in the *before() section. It must be followed by a call to *deletemassthicknesstable().

Example

To write out the mass of every component in the format

id,"name",mass

*components("","")
*before()
*populatemassthicknesstable()
*format()
*field(integer,id,0)
*string(",")
*field(quotedstring,name,0)
*string(",")
*field(real,mass,0)
*end()
*after()
*deletemassthicknesstable()
*output()

Version History

11.0