Drop-down property, allowing you to choose between Geometry Selection and Named Selection.

Apply/Cancel property available when Scoping Method is set to Geometry Selection. This property allows you to select nodes, or faces where you want to extract nodes, in order to obtain the initial candidate set of nodes to filter with the Minimum distance between sensors property. Available options are Nodes and Faces.

Drop-down property available when Scoping Method is set to Named Selection. This property allows you to scope a nodal named selection with the initial candidate set of nodes to filter with the Minimum distance between sensors property. It allows you to select Named Selections containing nodes or faces.

Length property that controls the spatial tolerance employed to place sensors and exciters. It will automatically remove nodes on free edges, nodes in contact regions and mid-side nodes. The default value is 2 times the Global Mesh Size.

Read-only property to display the count of filtered nodes generated after adding Minimum distance between nodes. If you alter the scoped Geometry or Minimum distance between nodes value, this value will regenerate automatically, but if you modify the scoped Named Selection, this value will reset to zero and you will need to revalidate the named selection.

Binary property that enables exciter calculation (default = Yes).

Length property that controls the minimum distance between sensors. This offers an additional filter to place sensors according to the Minimum Distance between Nodes property (the value selected must be greater than this property). The default value is 4 times the Global Mesh Size. This property allows you to remove nearby nodes at each iteration of the EIM, for the top Maximum Number of Sensors EIM nodes. The Maximum number of Sensors will always take precedence over this property. See Sensor Identification Method for more information.

Drop-down property that selects the number of displacement/acceleration degrees of freedom (DOF) to be measured at each sensor. They can either be Triaxial (3 DOFs per sensor) or Uniaxial (1 DOF per sensor).

Drop-down property that controls the way Coordinate Systems are defined at each sensor location. The Program Controlled option automatically computes a Coordinate System according to the Automatic Coordinate System Definition.

The User Defined option triggers the presence of the User Defined CS property defined below. The modification of this property affects all sensors that have already been found and that are displayed in the Pre-Test Worksheet.

Drop-down property that allows you to scope an existing Coordinate System in the Tree to define the sensor orientation.

The modification of this property affects all sensors that have already been found and that are displayed in the Pre-Test Worksheet.

Integer property that defines the maximum number of sensors to be found by the Sensor Identification Method. The Maximum Number of Sensors value cannot be higher than the total number of nodes defined in the Nodal Named Selection scoped in the Named Selection property.

Binary property that enforces strict implementation of the Maximum Number of Sensors in the Sensor Identification Method.

Drop-down property that controls the way Coordinate Systems are defined at each exciter location (only available if the Exciter Calculation property is set to Yes). The Program Controlled option automatically computes a Coordinate System according to the Automatic Coordinate System Definition.

The User Defined option triggers the presence of the User Defined CS property defined below.

The modification of this property affects all exciters that have already been found and that are displayed in the Pre-Test Worksheet.

Drop-down property that allows you to scope an existing Coordinate System in the Tree to define the exciter orientation (only available if the Exciter Calculation property is set to Yes).

The modification of this property affects all sensors that have already been found and that are displayed in the Pre-Test Worksheet.