PRIMER 22.1

GROUPS

GROUPS

Groups can be used in PRIMER to collect things together. Anything that has a label can be put into a group, for example *PART , *NODE . Things that do not have labels such as *CONSTRAINED and *BOUNDARY cannot be grouped.
At present the only use for groups is for assigning mass. In future releases of PRIMER groups may have other uses. When a group is used (for example in assigning mass all we are really interested in is structural items to add mass to) PRIMER will automatically calculate the contents of the group. If the group contained part 1, PRIMER will automatically find the elements that are in part 1 and then the nodes that are on those elements.