P Commands


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PADELE - Deletes a defined path.
/PAGE - Defines the printout and screen page size.
PAGET - Writes current path information into an array variable.
PAPUT - Retrieves path information from an array variable.
PARESU - Restores previously saved paths from a file.
PARRES - Reads parameters from a file.
PARSAV - Writes parameters to a file.
PASAVE - Saves selected paths to an external file.
PATH - Defines a path name and establishes parameters for the path.
PAUSE - Temporarily releases the current product license.
/PBC - Shows boundary condition (BC) symbols and values on displays.
/PBF - Shows magnitude of body-force loads on displays.
PCALC - Forms additional labeled path items by operating on existing path items.
PCGOPT - Controls PCG solver options.
PCIRC - Creates a circular area centered about the working plane origin.
/PCIRCLE - Creates an annotation circle (GUI).
PCROSS - Calculates the cross product of two path vectors along the current path.
PDEF - Interpolates an item onto a path.
PDOT - Calculates the dot product of two path vectors along the current path.
PERBC2D - Generates periodic constraints for 2D planar magnetic field analyses.
PERTURB - Sets linear perturbation analysis options.
PFACT - Calculates participation factors for the PSD or multi-point response spectrum table.
PIVCHECK - Controls the behavior of an analysis when a negative or zero equation solver pivot value is encountered.
PLAS - Plots a specified acoustic quantity during postprocessing of an acoustic analysis.
PLCAMP - Plots Campbell diagram data for applications involving rotating structure dynamics.
PLCFREQ - Plots the frequency response for the given CYCSPEC specification.
PLCHIST - Plots a histogram of the frequency response of each sector for the given CYCSPEC specification.
PLCINT - Plots the fracture parameter (CINT) result data.
PLCKSURF - Plots the Φ = 0 level set surface in an XFEM-based crack analysis
PLCPLX - Specifies the part of a complex variable to display.
PLDISP - Displays the displaced structure.
PLESOL - Displays solution results as discontinuous element contours.
PLETAB - Displays element table items.
PLFAR - Plots pressure far fields and far-field parameters.
PLF2D - Generates a contour line plot of equipotentials.
PLGEOM - Plots target and source geometries.
PLLS - Displays element table items as contoured areas along elements.
PLMAP - Plots target and source pressures.
PLMC - Plots the modal coordinates from a mode-superposition solution.
PLNEAR - Plots the pressure in the near zone exterior to the equivalent source surface.
PLNSOL - Displays solution results as continuous element contours.
/PLOPTS - Controls graphics options on subsequent displays.
PLORB - Displays the orbital motion of a rotating structure
PLOTTING - Specifies "Plotting settings" as the subsequent status topic.
PLPAGM - Displays path items along the path geometry.
PLPATH - Displays path items on a graph.
PLSECT - Displays membrane and membrane-plus-bending linearized stresses.
PLTIME - Defines the time range for which data are to be displayed.
PLTRAC - Displays a charged particle trace on an element display.
PLVAR - Displays up to ten variables in the form of a graph.
PLVECT - Displays results as vectors.
PLZZ - Plots the interference diagram from a cyclic modal analysis.
/PMACRO - Specifies that macro contents be written to the session log file.
PMAP - Creates mapping of the path geometry by defining path interpolation division points.
PMGTRAN - Summarizes electromagnetic results from a transient analysis.
PMLOPT - Defines perfectly matched layers (PMLs) or irregular perfectly matched layers (IPML).
PMLSIZE - Determines number of PML or IPML layers.
/PMORE - Creates an annotation polygon (GUI).
PNGR - Provides PNG file export for Mechanical APDL displays.
/PNUM - Controls entity numbering/coloring on plots.
POINT - Specifies "Point flow tracing settings" as the subsequent status topic.
POLY - Creates a polygonal area based on working plane coordinate pairs.
/POLYGON - Creates annotation polygons (GUI).
/POST1 - Enters the database results postprocessor.
/POST26 - Enters the time-history results postprocessor.
POWERH - Calculates the rms power loss in a conductor or lossy dielectric.
PPATH - Defines a path by picking or defining nodes, or locations on the currently active working plane, or by entering specific coordinate locations.
PRANGE - Determines the path range.
PRAS - Prints a specified acoustic quantity during postprocessing of an acoustic analysis.
PRCAMP - Prints Campbell diagram data for applications involving rotating structure dynamics.
PRCINT - Lists fracture parameter (CINT) results data.
PRCPLX - Defines the output form for complex variables.
PRED - Activates a predictor in a nonlinear analysis.
PRENERGY - Prints the total energies of a model or the energies of the specified components.
/PREP7 - Enters the model creation preprocessor.
PRERR - Prints SEPC and TEPC.
PRESOL - Prints the solution results for elements.
PRETAB - Prints the element table items.
PRFAR - Prints acoustic far field parameters.
PRI2 - Creates a polygonal area or a prism volume by vertices (GUI).
PRIM - Specifies "Solid model primitives" as the subsequent status topic.
PRINT - Specifies "Print settings" as the subsequent status topic.
*PRINT - Prints the matrix values to a file.
PRISM - Creates a prism volume based on working plane coordinate pairs.
PRITER - Prints solution summary data.
PRJSOL - Prints joint element output.
PRMC - Prints the modal coordinates from a mode-superposition solution.
PRNEAR - Prints the pressure in the near zone exterior to the equivalent source surface.
PRNLD - Prints the summed element nodal loads.
PRNSOL - Prints nodal solution results.
PROD - Multiplies variables.
PRORB - Prints the orbital motion characteristics of a rotating structure
PRPATH - Prints path items along a geometry path.
PRRFOR - Prints the constrained node reaction solution. Used with the FORCE command.
PRRSOL - Prints the constrained node reaction solution.
PRSCONTROL - Specifies whether to include pressure load stiffness in the element stiffness formation.
PRSECT - Calculates and prints linearized stresses along a section path.
PRTIME - Defines the time range for which data are to be listed.
PRVAR - Lists variables vs. time (or frequency).
PRVECT - Prints results as vector magnitude and direction cosines.
PSCONTROL - Enables or disables shared-memory parallel operations.
PSDCOM - Specifies the power spectral density mode combination method.
PSDFRQ - Defines the frequency points for the input spectrum tables PSDVAL vs. PSDFRQ for PSD analysis.
PSDGRAPH - Displays input PSD curves.
PSDRES - Controls solution output written to the results file from a PSD analysis.
PSDSPL - Defines a partially correlated excitation in a PSD analysis.
PSDUNIT - Defines the type of input PSD.
PSDVAL - Defines PSD values.
PSDWAV - Defines a wave propagation excitation in a PSD analysis.
/PSEARCH - Specifies a directory to be searched for "unknown command" macro files.
PSEL - Selects a path or paths.
/PSF - Shows surface load symbols on model displays.
PSMAT - Writes an assembled global matrix to a postscript format that graphically displays nonzero matrix values.
PSMESH - Creates and meshes a pretension section (PRETS179) or a preload section (MPC184).
/PSPEC - Creates annotation polygon attributes (GUI).
/PSTATUS - Displays the global or window display specifications.
PSTRES - Specifies whether prestress effects are calculated or included.
/PSYMB - Shows various symbols on displays.
PSYS - Sets the PML element coordinate system attribute pointer.
PTR - Dumps the record of a binary file.
PTXY - Defines coordinate pairs for use in polygons and prisms.
PVECT - Interpolates a set of items onto a path.
/PWEDGE - Creates an annotation wedge (GUI).