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:
Counts the following geometric entities in the model:
| • | lines (reports free lines) |
| • | points (reports free points) |
| • | topology lines (reports surface/solid edges) |
| • | topology points (reports surface/solid vertices/fixed points) |
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Counts the following FE entities in the model:
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Counts the entities that are used to setup model boundary conditions, including:
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Counts entities used in safety models, including:
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Counts entities used in morphing tools, including
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Counts optimization entities. This subpanel only displays when OptiStruct is the selected user profile.
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See Also:
Alphabetical List of Panels
