ID Management

Manage the IDs for the entities that you create, and define ID ranges for the entities in each Include file in order to avoid ID duplication across files.

Perform ID management in the ID Manager.

Once the ID ranges are defined for an Include file, any new entities created will be assigned an ID within the ID range following the new ID rules. Entities that are imported into the Include file will have the IDs that overflow after import automatically corrected by Move After Max option.

Aside from new entity creation and import, the ID Manager will not actively correct IDs in the model. If there are entity IDs that fall outside of the ID range, they will remain as overflow and must be corrected by renumbering in ID Manager.

FE entities in CAE models are labeled and tagged using IDs and names. IDs are used by the solvers during analysis and then passed on by the solver to the results. This process enables you to interpret the results and relate them to the FE model. In most cases, the IDs of the FE entities in a FE model must be unique for efficient identification. In large models it is essential to have a tool that manages a model's IDs consistently at the global level for ease of identification using IDs.

Note: In the Abaqus user profile, a solver which is name based rather than ID based, the following entity types are supported and impacted by the operations performed during ID management: Assembly, Component, Element, Node, Property, Material, Beam Collector, Beam Section and Tags. Only these entity types will honor the Min and Max ID ranges defined in the ID Manager. Corrections made to an Include file only impact these entity types. During the creation of new entities that are not supported by the ID Manager, the Max ID + 1 is used to assign new IDs.