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- C*** - Places a comment in the output.
- CALC - Specifies "Calculation settings" as the subsequent status topic.
- CAMPBELL - Prepares the result file for a subsequent Campbell diagram of a prestressed structure.
- CBDOF - Activates cut-boundary interpolation (for submodeling).
- CBMD - Specifies preintegrated section mass matrix for composite-beam sections.
- CBMX - Specifies preintegrated cross-section stiffness for composite beam sections.
- CBTE - Specifies a thermal expansion coefficient for a composite beam section.
- CBTMP - Specifies a temperature for composite-beam input.
- CDOPT - Specifies format to be used for archiving geometry.
- CDREAD - Reads a file of solid model and database information into the database.
- CDWRITE - Writes geometry and load database items to a file.
- CE - Defines a constraint equation relating degrees of freedom.
- CECHECK - Check constraint equations and couplings for rigid body motions.
- CECMOD - Modifies the constant term of a constraint equation during solution.
- CECYCMS - Generates the constraint equations for a multistage cyclic symmetry analysis.
- CEDELE - Deletes constraint equations.
- CEFILTER - Controls the automatic solution termination of models having constraint equations with too many terms.
- CEINTF - Generates constraint equations at an interface.
- CEIMS - Generates constraint equations at the interstage boundary in a multistage cyclic symmetry analysis.
- CELIST - Lists the constraint equations.
- CENTER - Defines a node at the center of curvature of 2 or 3 nodes.
- CEQN - Specifies "Constraint equations" as the subsequent status topic.
- CERIG - Defines a rigid region.
- CESEL - Selects constraint equations via predefined reference numbers.
- CESGEN - Generates a set of constraint equations from existing sets.
- CFACT - Defines complex scaling factors to be used with operations.
- *CFCLOS - Closes the "command" file.
- *CFOPEN - Opens a "command" file.
- /CFORMAT - Controls the graphical display of alphanumeric character strings for parameters, components, assemblies, and tables.
- *CFWRITE - Writes a Mechanical APDL command (or similar string) to a "command" file.
- CGLOC - Specifies the origin location of the acceleration coordinate system.
- CGOMGA - Specifies the rotational velocity of the global origin.
- CGROW - Specifies crack-growth options in a fracture analysis.
- CHECK - Checks current database items for completeness.
- CHKMSH - Checks area and volume entities for previous meshes.
- CINT - Defines parameters associated with fracture-parameter calculations.
- CIRCLE - Generates circular arc lines.
- CISOL - Stores fracture parameter information in a variable.
- CJUMP - Initiates a cycle-jump analysis.
- /CLABEL - Specifies contour labeling.
- /CLEAR - Clears the database.
- CLOAD - Initiates a cyclic-loading analysis.
- CLOCAL - Defines a local coordinate system relative to the active coordinate system.
- CLOG - Forms the common log of a variable
- /CLOG - Copies the session log file to a named file.
- CLRMSHLN - Clears meshed entities.
- CM - Groups geometry items into a component.
- CMACEL - Specifies the translational acceleration of an element component
- /CMAP - Changes an existing or creates a new color mapping table.
- CMATRIX - Performs electrostatic field solutions and calculates the self and mutual capacitances between multiple conductors.
- CMDELE - Deletes a component or assembly definition.
- CMDOMEGA - Specifies the rotational acceleration of an element component about a user-defined rotational axis.
- CMEDIT - Edits an existing assembly.
- CMGRP - Groups components and assemblies into an assembly.
- CMLIST - Lists the contents of a component or assembly.
- CMMOD - Modifies the specification of a component.
- CMOMEGA - Specifies the rotational velocity of an element component about a user-defined rotational axis.
- CMPLOT - Plots the entities contained in a component or assembly.
- CMROTATE - Specifies the rotational velocity of an element component in a brake-squeal analysis.
- CMSEL - Selects a subset of components and assemblies.
- CMSFILE - Specifies a list of component mode synthesis (CMS) results files for plotting results on the assembly.
- CMSOPT - Specifies component mode synthesis (CMS) analysis options.
- CMWRITE - Writes node and element components and assemblies to a file.
- CNCHECK - Provides and/or adjusts the initial status of contact pairs.
- CNKMOD - Modifies contact element key options.
- CNTR - Redirects contact pair output quantities to a text file.
- CNVTOL - Sets convergence values for nonlinear analyses.
- /COLOR - Specifies the color mapping for various items.
- /COM - Places a comment in the output.
- *COMP - Compresses a matrix using a specified algorithm.
- COMBINE - Combines distributed memory parallel (DMP) files.
- COMPRESS - Deletes all specified sets.
- CON4 - Creates a conical volume anywhere on the working plane.
- CONE - Creates a conical volume centered about the working plane origin.
- /CONFIG - Assigns values to Mechanical APDL configuration parameters.
- CONJUG - Forms the complex conjugate of a variable.
- /CONTOUR - Specifies the uniform contour values on stress displays.
- /COPY - Copies a file.
- CORIOLIS - Applies the Coriolis effect to a rotating structure.
- COUPLE - Specifies "Node coupling" as the subsequent status topic.
- COVAL - Defines PSD cospectral values.
- CP - Defines (or modifies) a set of coupled degrees of freedom.
- CPCYC - Couples the two side faces of a cyclically symmetric model for loadings that are the same on every segment.
- CPDELE - Deletes coupled degree of freedom sets.
- CPINTF - Defines coupled degrees of freedom at an interface.
- /CPLANE - Specifies the cutting plane for section and capped displays.
- CPLGEN - Generates sets of coupled nodes from an existing set.
- CPLIST - Lists the coupled degree of freedom sets.
- CPMERGE - Merges different couple sets with duplicate degrees of freedom into one couple set.
- CPNGEN - Defines, modifies, or adds to a set of coupled degrees of freedom.
- CPSEL - Selects coupled degree-of-freedom sets via predefined reference numbers.
- CPSGEN - Generates sets of coupled nodes from existing sets.
- CQC - Specifies the complete quadratic mode combination method.
- *CREATE - Opens (creates) a macro file.
- CS - Defines a local coordinate system by three node locations.
- CSCIR - Locates the singularity for non-Cartesian local coordinate systems.
- CSDELE - Deletes local coordinate systems.
- CSKP - Defines a local coordinate system by three keypoint locations.
- CSLIST - Lists coordinate systems.
- CSWPLA - Defines a local coordinate system at the origin of the working plane.
- CSYS - Activates a previously defined coordinate system.
- /CTYPE - Specifies the type of contour display.
- CURR2D - Calculates current flow in a 2D conductor.
- CUTCONTROL - Controls time-step cutback during a nonlinear solution.
- /CVAL - Specifies nonuniform contour values on stress displays.
- CVAR - Computes covariance between two quantities.
- /CWD - Changes the current working directory.
- CYCCALC - Calculates results from a cyclic harmonic mode-superposition analysis using the specifications defined by CYCSPEC.
- /CYCEXPAND - Graphically expands displacements, stresses and strains of a cyclically symmetric model.
- CYCFILES - Specifies the data files where results are to be found for a cyclic symmetry mode-superposition harmonic analysis.
- CYCFREQ - Specifies solution options for a cyclic symmetry mode-superposition harmonic analysis.
- *CYCLE - Bypasses commands within a do-loop.
- CYCLIC - Specifies a cyclic symmetry analysis.
- CYCOPT - Specifies solution options for a cyclic symmetry analysis.
- CYCPHASE - Provides tools for determining minimum and maximum possible result values from frequency couplets produced in a modal cyclic symmetry analysis.
- CYCSPEC - Defines the set of result items for a subsequent CYCCALC command in postprocessing a cyclic harmonic mode-superposition analysis.
- CYL4 - Creates a circular area or cylindrical volume anywhere on the working plane.
- CYL5 - Creates a circular area or cylindrical volume by end points.
- CYLIND - Creates a cylindrical volume centered about the working plane origin.
- CZDEL - Edits or clears cohesive zone sections.
- CZMESH - Create and mesh an interface area composed of cohesive zone elements.