The Prescribed Points control allows you to create the prescribed points based on the locations of the defined material points.
The Prescribed Points control Details view has the following options:
General
Control Type: Displays the selected control type.
Scope
Define By: Allows you to define the input to the selected control. The available options are Value and Outcome.
Value: Allows you to set manually the value of the Scoping Method and Scoping Pattern.
Outcome: Allows you to select the existing scoped outcomes from the previous steps as input.
Scoping Method: Allows you to select the entities for the selected control. The available options are:
Part: Allows you to select parts for defining the scope of the control.
Label: Allows you to select labels for defining the scope of the control.
Zone: Allows you to select zones for defining the scope of the control.
Scoping Pattern: Allows you to specify the name pattern to get the selected Scoping Method. Scoping Pattern supports Regular Expression. You can click
on the right corner of the option and the following options are available:Publish: Publishes Scoping Pattern to the Property Worksheet.
Scope All: Inserts '.*' regular expression to scope all entities.
Definition
Label Name: Allows you to provide the label name for the prescribed point.
Unique Label Per Point: Automatically creates the unique label name for defined points by adding a numeric suffix to the Label Name, when Unique Label Per Point set to Yes.
Preserve Boundaries: Allows you to preserve the nodes on boundaries when Preserve Boundaries set to Yes. When Preserve Boundaries is No, the boundary nodes move to the nearest prescribed points.