When you write a Mechanical APDL application input file that includes a Named Selection group, the group is transferred to the Mechanical APDL application as a component provided the name contains only standard English letters and numbers, spaces, underscore, hyphen, and/or parenthesis characters. The Named Selection will be available in the input file as a Mechanical APDL component for use in a Commands object. Geometry scoping to bodies will result in an element-based component. All other scoping types will result in a nodal component. The following actions occur automatically to the group name in the Mechanical application to form the resulting component name in the Mechanical APDL application:
A name exceeding 32 characters is truncated.
A name that begins with a number, space, hyphen, or parenthesis character, is renamed to include "C_" before the character.
Spaces, hyphens, or parentheses between characters in a name are replaced with underscores.
Example: The Named Selection group in the Mechanical application called 1 Edge appears as component C_1_Edge in the Mechanical APDL application input file.
Note: Named selections starting with ALL, STAT, or DEFA will not be sent to the Mechanical APDL application.