Silently deletes an array using undocumented 'NOPR' argument. The Reset button does not appear to modify _BUTTON *DEL # *del,array,NOPR The problem with this technique is if the user is inclined to use the Apply button (or MMB), and then follow with OK to close the picking dialog, then _BUTTON will equal 1.Īs a point of trivia, _BUTTON equals 2 after Apply is pressed, but this cannot be tested in an APDL macro, since the test will not be executed until the dialog is closed with OK, Cancel or Pick All.

This is because there are cases where OK can return a 1, the same as cancel.įor example, suppose you want to prompt the end-user to pick some areas, so you write: APDL Commands # _BUTTON # Hidden parameter _Button can be used to test whether the user chose OK or Cancel within a MULTIPRO box, but its usefulness probably does not extend to testing actions with other boxes.

Notes are added to indicate revisions which were verified by the author or others, but this does not necessarily mean that the command is only applicable to a particular revision unless stated as such. that are requested by specific users but are not deemed useful to the general user community are sometimes included without general release, (d) Features that are 'unsupportable' and minimally tested, (e) Options risky to the user (CNVR,-1 for example), (f) Partially completed items that are still 'buggy' but of use in a limited sense for experimental Beta testing by select customers. Additional reasons why commands are undocumented: (a) The feature is either untested or insufficiently tested due to time constraints, (b) The feature has been tested but did not pass sufficiently to warrant release, (c) KEYOPTs, program options, etc. Others are 'old' legacy commands which became undocumented in subsequent versions of ANSYS. Some of these commands are present in later versions of ANSYS (e.g., ANSYS 5.6, 5.7).

John Crawford and John Swanson's contributions), and the author's own findings.

Undocumented commands are collected from ASD websites, ANSYS, Inc., and XANSYS mailing List (esp. Undocumented commands & features are not guaranteed or supported by ANSYS or the ASDs (they also do not have error reports associated with them), but they are sometimes quite useful.

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