×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Control node number at line ends

Control node number at line ends

Control node number at line ends

(OP)
Hello,
I've got a model that is made from beam elements. I've created it from keypoints and then lines. For the first line the nodes at either end are numbered 1 and 2, whereas the nodes in between are numbered 3....n.
I'd rather the nodes were numbered 1,2,...n instead so that it will make some of the later selection of nodes based on position easier. Is there a way to do this? I thought the NUMCMP command might be do this, but it only removes 'missing' numbers rather than renumbering the nodes as I wish. Is there a way to control the node numbers? I think I can work around it but that might allow errors to creep in.
Many thanks
George

RE: Control node number at line ends

(OP)
I think I've found out how to do it from creating the nodes and elements directly rather than using keypoints and lines. For the geometry that I'm using that should be suitable.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources