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Count panel

Count panel

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Use the Count panel to obtain a count of all the entities in your database.

You can count selected entities, displayed entities, or all entities in the model.  When you click displayed or all entities, the counter fields for all affected entities are updated in all subpanels.  Entities that fit the category are not counted.  For example, when you click to count displayed entities, the mats and props fields are blank because these entities do not display in Engineering Solutions.

A component is considered "displayed" if either its elements or its geometry (or both) are displayed.

The selected function counts the entities that are currently selected.  It returns the number of selected entities, and all entities which are related to the selected entities.  For example, when components are selected, selected returns the number of components, the number of elements in the selected components, the number of lines in the selected components, and the number of nodes that are attached to the counted elements.

Counting all is faster than counting selected.

 

Subpanels and Inputs


The Count panel contains the following subpanels:

hmtoggle_arrow1Geometry

Counts the following geometric entities in the model:

lines (reports free lines)
points (reports free points)
surfaces
solids
systems
system collectors
topology lines (reports surface/solid edges)
topology points (reports surface/solid vertices/fixed points)
vectors
vector collectors
connectors

 

hmtoggle_arrow1FE Entities

Counts the following FE entities in the model:

nodes
elements
components
assemblies
materials
properties
sets
plies
laminates
beamsections
beamsection collectors
plots
curves
titles
tags

 

hmtoggle_arrow1BC Entities

Counts the entities that are used to setup model boundary conditions, including:

groups
contactsurfs
loads
equations
loadcols
output blocks

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Safety

Counts entities used in safety models, including:

sensors
control volumes
blocks
multibodies
ellipsoids
mbplane
mbjoint

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Morph

Counts entities used in morphing tools, including

shapes
domains
handles
symmetrys
morph constraints
morph volumes

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Optimization

Counts optimization entities. This subpanel only displays when OptiStruct is the selected user profile.

designvar
tables
optifuncts
optiresp
dvprels
objectives
dobjrefs
opticonst
desvarlinks
opticontrol
optidscreen

 

 

See Also:

Alphabetical List of Panels