Notes and Limitations

There are several issues, limitations and special behaviors of *setvalue that are important to know.

When updating a string value, if there are any continuous spaces, the Tcl interpreter truncates these extra spaces. To prevent the truncation, specify the value to be updated as a separate string, or enter a space after the =.

// Will be interpreted as This is name, without any spaces.

*setvalue mats id=1 name={This is          name}

// Will be interpreted as This is name, with correct spaces.

*setvalue mats id=1 name= {This is          name}

set name "This is          name"
*setvalue mats id=1 name=$name

The HyperMesh Tcl interpreter has a 4096 character limit on the size of a string that can be passed in. Therefore, it is often necessary to use another syntax to work around this limitation. Instead of using something like this:

*createentity sets type=element name=test ids=[hm_getmark elems 1]

Examples of recommended usage are:

eval *createentity sets type=element name=test ids=[ list $elems ]

eval *createentity sets type=element name=test ids={ [hm_getmark elems 1] }

eval *createentity sets type=element name=test ids={ $elems }

Data names for beamsections, geometry entities, and morphing entities are not supported.

Some optimization entity data names are not supported.

ddvals: rangeindex; rangeindexmax; values; valuesmax
dequations: number_of_lines; string
designvars: anchorpoint; firstgrid; secondgrid; shapedesignvariable; vectorlist; vectorlistmax
desvarlinks: coeff
dobjref: objectid
dvprels: coeff; fieldposition; ishear
opticontrols: minmeth; minmethtoggle; nastran_controls; nastran_real_controls; nastran_toggles
optiresponses: coordinate_type_list; loadstepweightlist; modes; weights

The row=<row_index> option is not currently supported for the following entity types and data names.

equations: independentcoeffs; independentdofs
laminates: interfacepairplyids
plies: entitylist; entitylistdisplayed; linelist
plots: curves; curveslist
tables: marked_columnlabel

Update on row=<row_index> does not work for 1D entity attributes, and update on both row=<row_index> and column=<column_index> are not supported for all types of 2D attributes.