The context (right-click) menu option for the Contact Region object, Set Default APDL Names, enables you generate system default names for the Contact/Target APDL Name properties. These properties are optional and only available for the Mechanical APDL solver. You use them to specify an APDL parameter name for the contact and the target element types. Using these names, you can easily identify the contact and target element type and their corresponding real constant set that you can reference and use in a Commands (APDL) object.

The application creates the names based on object identifiers and prepends that value with either "_con" or "_tgt," as shown in the following examples: