Context: You can use the dialog box to specify Abaqus element settings for all the element shapes that could conceivably appear in the regions you select, even if the regions currently contain only a few different element shapes. For example, even though a selected region may contain only quadrilateral elements, you can associate an element type with other shapes, too, such as triangles. For information on populating the Element Type dialog box with preferred element types, see Preferred element types list. The element type setting behaves like a feature. For example, if you assign element types to a region and then later partition that region into several more regions, the new regions will inherit the element type settings of the original parent region. |