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Load Step: CRADIATE: Define Tab

Load Step: CRADIATE: Define Tab

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The Define tab allows you to define a *CRADIATE card on node sets only. Engineering Solutions does not support *CRADIATE on individual nodes.

The Define CRADIATE on Node sets option defines *CRADIATE on node sets.

Note:Loads created on sets are not graphically displayed in Engineering Solutions. Therefore, when you review a load collector in the Step Manager, only loads created on individual entities are highlighted. For loads defined on sets, the underlying nodes or elements are highlighted.

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This dialog has a node sets drop down menu containing a list of the existing node sets.  It also has a data line input table with the following columns:

Nodeset

The name of the node sets.  Node sets are added or removed using ab-step-man-right  or ab-step-man-left, respectively.

Area

The area associated with the nodes.

Ref temp

Ambient reference temperature.

Emissivity

Surface emissivity.

 

For tips on entering information and navigating in the Define tab, see Step Manager Tab Environment.

The Define CRADIATE on: Node sets option has the following buttons:

Review/Reset Set

Reviews the selected node sets by highlighting them in the graphics.  Right-click Review to clear the review selections.

Create/Edit Set..

Opens the Entity Sets panel in Engineering Solutions.  When you finish creating/editing the set, click return.  The Step Manager is updated with the new set appearing in the node set list.

ab-step-man-right

Adds the selected node set from the drop-down menu to the data line table on the right.

ab-step-man-left

Deletes the selected node set from the data line table.

Review/Reset

Reviews the selected node set in the data line table.  Right-click Review to clear the highlighted selections.

Update

Updates the database with the data lines defined in the table.  By default, Engineering Solutions does not create a display for loads defined with sets.

 

See Also:

Load Step: CRADIATE