2 5 7 11 16 21 31 51 61 71
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|X| | | 4| | | 54.6 | ... | | | ...
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|X|END| | 23| 3| 10| 54.6 | ... | 4.5 | | ...
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| | | | | | (5)3 Coordinate Increments (3F10.0)
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| | | | | |_(4)3 Coordinates for Start Node (3F10.0)
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| | | | |_(3)Increment for Node Number(I5)
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| | | |_(2)Number of Nodes to be Generated(I5)
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| | |_(1)Starting Node Number(I4)
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| |_Optional User Identifier(A2)
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|_Compulsory END on Last Data Record in data category (A3)
(1) This is the node number (N1) whose coordinate position is given by the values X, Y, Z (4).
(2) Leave blank (as in first data record shown above) if only 1 node is to be generated. A total of N2 nodes are generated automatically if this number (N2) is greater than 1. The Nth node is generated:
with a node number N1+ (N-1)N3
with coordinates X+(N-1)DX, Y+(N-1)DY, Z+(N-1)DZ
(3) Leave blank (as in first data record shown above) if only one node is to be generated. If this field is left blank when generating nodes, then a value of 1 is assumed for this Nodal Increment (N3).
(4) Coordinate Position (X,Y,Z) associated with node number N1 (1).
(5) Leave blank (as in first data record shown above) if only 1 node is to be generated. These 3 values are referred to as DX,DY,DZ in (2).