ID-Management
Manage all of the IDs for the entities that you create, and define ID ranges for all of the entities in each Include file in relation to the full model in order to avoid ID duplication.
Once the ID ranges are defined for each Include file and child entity type, they will remain active and any new entities created will be assigned an ID within the ID range following the new ID rules. Entities that are imported into the Include file that have ID ranges already defined, will have the IDs that overflow after import automatically corrected by Move After Max option.
Aside from new entity creation and import, the ID Manager will not actively correct all of the IDs in the FE model. If there are entity IDs that result in overflow because of organization issues in the Include file such as renumbering, they will remain as overflow and must be corrected manually.
FE entities in CAE models are labeled and tagged using IDs and names. IDs are used by the solvers during analysis and then passed on by the solver to the results. This process enables you to interpret the results and relate them to the FE model. In most cases, the IDs of the FE entities in a FE model must be unique for efficient identification. In large models that involve several parts assembled into sub-assemblies and main assemblies, it is essential to have a tool that manages a model's IDs consistently in the part level, sub-assembly level, and in the global level for ease of identification using IDs.
In the Abaqus user profile, the following entity types are supported and impacted by the operations performed during ID-management: Assembly, Component, Element, Node, Property, Material, Beam Collector, Beam Section and Tags. Only these entity types will honor the Min and Max ID ranges defined in the ID Manager. Corrections made to an Include file only impact these entity types. During the creation of new entities that are not supported by the ID Manager, the Max ID + 1 is used to assign new IDs.