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How to get the Element/Node Count in the model without running it?

Tagged: 2019 R1, apdl, Macros/Scripting/UPF, mechanical-apdl, modeling-and-meshing, structural-mechanics
    • March 17, 2023 at 8:59 am
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      For getting the count of elements or nodes, you can use *GET command. Basically, with this you can store the value of count in a parameter. Command for element count of selected elements; *GET, E_COUNT, ELEM,,COUNT Command for node count of selected nodes; *GET, N_COUNT, NODE,,COUNT In above commands, E_COUNT and N_COUNT are parameters name respectively. You can check the values of those parameters under Parameters//Scalar Parameters.

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