Description Command

It is good practice to annotate MPM and FEA command files with a description of the calculations being created.

Scripted Input Files

In scripted input files, you build the description by using multiple commands for common elements that belong in a good analysis description. The overall format (although all commands are optional) is:

Title (simulation title)
Name (user name)
Header
(any amount of description text)
EndHeader
Comment (expr1),<(expr2)>,...

where

• (simulation title) is a one-line title for the calculations run by these commands.
• (user name) is the name of the person creating the input commands file.
• (any amount of description text) is any number of lines of free-format text to describe the simulations. When done, use the EndHeader command on the following line,
• (expr1), (expr2),... are any number of arguments. The arguments are evaluated (and they may be expressions) and placed in the analysis description after the word "Comment:". You can use any number of Comment commands.

XML Input Files

In XML input files, a Description block can contain any free-format text description of the analysis:

<Description>
This simulation will be a 3D analysis of a high-speed impact
on an inclined plate.
</Description>

All annotation must be in a single Description block; in other words, unlike when scripting files, XML files do not have separate commands for title, name, and comments.