ELEMQUAL

Bulk Data Entry Resets the default values of the warning and error bound limits for element quality check.

Format

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ELEMQUAL ETYPE PTYPE LTYPE V1 V2        

Example 1

For CTRIA3 elements, change the upper limit of aspect ratio for error message to 300.0 (default is 500).
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
ELEMQUAL TRIA3 ARATIO ERROR   300.0        

Example 2

For CTETRA elements, change the bound limits of collapse for warning message to 0.01 and 10.0 (default lower and upper limits are 0.001 and 100.0).
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
ELEMQUAL TETRA COLLAPSE WARNING 0.01 10.        

Definitions

Field Contents SI Unit Example
ETYPE Element type. Valid entries are:
TRIA3
CTRIA3
QUAD4
CQUAD4
TETRA
1st-order CTETRA
TET10
2nd-order CTETRA
PENTA
1st-order CPENTA
PENT15
2nd-order CPENTA
HEXA
1st-order CHEXA
HEX20
2nd-order CHEXA
PYRA
1st-order CPYRA
PYRA13
2nd-order CPYRA
TAXI3
1st-order CTAXI or CTRIAX6
TAXI6
2nd-order CTAXI or CTRIAX6
QAXI4
1st-order CQAXI
QAXI8
2nd-order CQAXI
TPSTN3
1st-order CTPSTN
TPSTN6
2nd-order CTPSTN
QPSTN4
1st-order CQPSTN
QPSTN8
2nd-order CQPSTN
GASK8
CGASK8
GASK16
CGASK16
GASK6
CGASK6
GASK12
CGASK12

No default

 
PTYPE Geometric property type. Valid entries are:
ARATIO
Aspect Ratio
SKEW
Skew Angle
TAPER
Face Taper
WARP
Warp Angle
TWIST
Twist Angle
EDGE
Edge Angle
COLLAPSE
ANGLE
Vertex Angle
HOENOR
Hoe Normal Offset
HOETAN
Hoe Tangent Offset

No default

 
LTYPE Bound limits type.
WARNING
ERROR

No default

 
V1 Lower bound value.

No default (Real)

 
V2 Upper bound value.

No default (Real)

 

Comments

  1. Element quality checks and their default settings are described in the Element Quality Check section.
  2. All specified values (V1 and V2) are checked against the corresponding limits used for validity check. Data outside the validity range is ignored.