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<span class = "shortdesc">Some remarks concerning node and element groups are summarized
within this section.</span>

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<p>Node and element components or assemblies from components in <span class = "ph">ANSYS®</span>
are defined as follows:</p>
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<code class = "ph codeph">CM, Cname, Entity 
</code><code class = "ph codeph">CMGRP, Aname, Cnam1, Cnam2, Cnam3, Cnam4, Cnam5, Cnam6, 
Cnam7, Cnam8 
</code><code class = "ph codeph">CMBLOCK,Cname,Entity,NUMITEMS
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<p>These components or assemblies are treated in <span class = "ph">SIMULIA Tosca Structure</span>
as node or element groups. These groups are loaded from the <span class = "ph">ANSYS®</span>
input file during the optimization preprocessing and these groups are
available for further definition in the parameter file along with the
groups <code class = "ph codeph">ALL_NODES</code> and <code class = "ph codeph">ALL_ELEMENTS</code>.
If components containing nodes and elements have identical names in
the <span class = "ph">ANSYS®</span>
input file, the endings <code class = "ph codeph">_NODE</code> and <code class = "ph codeph">_ELEM</code>
are added to the specified group name during importation. This guarantees
that the group can be identically identified by <span class = "ph">SIMULIA Tosca Structure</span>.</p>
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