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- A - Defines an area by connecting keypoints.
- *ABBR - Defines an abbreviation.
- AADD - Adds separate areas to create a single area.
- *AFUN - Specifies units for angular functions in parameter expressions.
- *ASK - Prompts the user to input a parameter value.
- AATT - Associates element attributes with the selected, unmeshed areas.
- *AXPY - Performs the matrix operation M2= v*M1 + w*M2.
- ABBRES - Reads abbreviations from a coded file.
- ABBSAV - Writes the current abbreviation set to a coded file.
- ABEXTRACT - Extracts the alpha-beta damping multipliers for Rayleigh damping.
- ABS - Forms the absolute value of a variable.
- ACCAT - Concatenates multiple areas in preparation for mapped meshing.
- ACCOPTION - Specifies GPU accelerator capability options.
- ACEL - Specifies the linear acceleration of the global Cartesian reference frame for the analysis.
- ACLEAR - Deletes nodes and area elements associated with selected areas.
- ADAMS - Performs solutions and writes flexible body information to a modal neutral file (Jobname.MNF) for use in an ADAMS analysis.
- ADD - Adds (sums) variables.
- ADDAM - Specifies the acceleration spectrum computation constants for the analysis of shock resistance of shipboard structures.
- ADELE - Deletes unmeshed areas.
- ADGL - Lists keypoints of an area that lie on a parametric degeneracy.
- ADPCI - Defines parameters associated with adaptive crack initiation.
- ADRAG - Generates areas by dragging a line pattern along a path.
- AEROCOEFF - Computes the aero-damping and stiffness coefficients and writes them to an APDL array.
- AESIZE - Specifies the element size to be meshed onto areas.
- AFILLT - Generates a fillet at the intersection of two areas.
- AFLIST - Lists the current data in the database.
- AFSURF - Generates surface elements overlaid on the surface of existing solid elements and assigns the extra node as the closest fluid element node.
- AGEN - Generates additional areas from a pattern of areas.
- AGLUE - Generates new areas by "gluing" areas.
- AINA - Finds the intersection of areas.
- AINP - Finds the pairwise intersection of areas.
- AINV - Finds the intersection of an area with a volume.
- AIRL - Specifies that automatic inertia relief calculations are to be performed.
- AL - Generates an area bounded by previously defined lines.
- ALIST - Lists the defined areas.
- ALLSEL - Selects all entities with a single command.
- ALPHAD - Defines the mass matrix multiplier for damping.
- AMAP - Generates a 2D mapped mesh based on specified area corners.
- AMBEAM - Specifies energy source parameters in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMBUILD - Specifies printer parameters for the build and other options in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMENV - Specifies the build-environment thermal boundary conditions in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMESH - Generates nodes and area elements within areas.
- AMMAT - Specifies the melting and relaxation temperatures of the build material in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMPOWDER - Specifies the thermal conditions of the powder in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMRESULT - Specifies additive manufacturing result data written to a .txt file.
- AMSTEP - Specifies the process-sequence steps in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMSUPPORTS - Specifies information about the supports in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- AMTYPE - Specifies the printing process in an additive manufacturing analysis.
- /AN3D - Specifies 3D annotation functions
- ANCNTR - Produces an animated sequence of a contoured deformed shape.
- ANCUT - Produces an animated sequence of Q-slices.
- ANCYC - Applies a traveling wave animation to graphics data in a modal cyclic symmetry analysis.
- ANDATA - Displays animated graphics data for nonlinear problems.
- ANDSCL - Produces an animated sequence of a deformed shape.
- ANDYNA - Produces an animated sequence of contour values through substeps.
- /ANFILE - Saves or resumes an animation sequence to or from a file.
- ANFLOW - Produces an animated sequence of a charged particle traveling in an electric or magnetic field.
- /ANGLE - Rotates the display about an axis.
- ANHARM - Produces an animated sequence of time-harmonic results or complex mode shapes.
- ANIM - Displays animated graphics data for linear problems.
- ANISOS - Produces an animated sequence of an isosurface.
- ANMODE - Produces an animated sequence of a mode shape.
- /ANNOT - Activates graphics for annotating displays (GUI).
- ANORM - Reorients area normals.
- ANPRES - Produces an animated sequence of the time-harmonic pressure variation of an engine-order excitation in a cyclic harmonic analysis.
- ANSOL - Specifies averaged element nodal data to be stored from the results file.
- ANSTOAQWA - Creates an AQWA-LINE input file from the current Mechanical APDL model.
- ANSTOASAS - Creates an ASAS input file from the current Mechanical APDL model.
- ANTIME - Generates a sequential contour animation over a range of time.
- ANTYPE - Specifies the analysis type and restart status.
- /ANUM - Specifies the annotation number, type, and hot spot (GUI).
- AOFFST - Generates an area, offset from a given area.
- AOVLAP - Overlaps areas.
- APLOT - Displays the selected areas.
- APORT - Specifies input data for plane wave and acoustic duct ports.
- APPEND - Reads data from the results file and appends it to the database.
- APTN - Partitions areas.
- ARCLEN - Activates the arc-length method.
- ARCTRM - Controls termination of the solution when the arc-length method is used.
- AREAS - Specifies "Areas" as the subsequent status topic.
- AREFINE - Refines the mesh around specified areas.
- AREMESH - Generates an area in which to create a new mesh for rezoning.
- AREVERSE - Reverses the normal of an area, regardless of its connectivity or mesh status.
- AROTAT - Generates cylindrical areas by rotating a line pattern about an axis.
- ARSCALE - Generates a scaled set of areas from a pattern of areas.
- ARSYM - Generates areas from an area pattern by symmetry reflection.
- ASBA - Subtracts areas from areas.
- ASBL - Subtracts lines from areas.
- ASBV - Subtracts volumes from areas.
- ASBW - Subtracts the intersection of the working plane from areas (divides areas).
- ASCRES - Specifies the output type for an acoustic scattering analysis.
- ASEL - Selects a subset of areas.
- ASIFILE - Writes or reads one-way acoustic-structural coupling data.
- ASKIN - Generates an area by "skinning" a surface through guiding lines.
- ASLL - Selects those areas containing the selected lines.
- ASLV - Selects those areas contained in the selected volumes.
- ASOL - Specifies the acoustic solver with scattered field formulation.
- /ASSIGN - Reassigns a file name to a Mechanical APDL file identifier.
- ASUB - Generates an area using the shape of an existing area.
- ASUM - Calculates and prints geometry statistics of the selected areas.
- ATAN - Forms the arctangent of a complex variable.
- ATRAN - Transfers a pattern of areas to another coordinate system.
- ATYPE - Specifies "Analysis types" as the subsequent status topic.
- /AUTO - Resets the focus and distance specifications to "automatically calculated."
- AUTOTS - Specifies whether to use automatic time stepping or load stepping.
- /AUX2 - Enters the binary file dumping processor.
- /AUX3 - Enters the results file editing processor.
- /AUX12 - Enters the radiation processor.
- /AUX15 - Enters the IGES file transfer processor.
- AVPRIN - Specifies how principal and vector sums are to be calculated.
- AVRES - Specifies how results data will be averaged when PowerGraphics is enabled.
- AWAVE - Specifies input data for an acoustic incident wave.
- /AXLAB - Labels the X and Y axes on graph displays.