Entity Naming Convention

I'm using HyperMesh 12.0 and Abaqus 6.12-4.

 I've been away from FEA for a couple of years. My entities are now getting names like:

  NSET = S2;S2;S2;S2;S2;PreTensNodes

and

  P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;FuelTank

and

G37;G27;G27;G32;G47;S:WashrLo

Then I run Abaqus and get errors that a certain surface doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because its name got a new prefix in the model data, but not in the history data.

Somewhere in the documentation I saw how names are organized between the semi-colon and colon. I can't find it now. I've looked and looked.

Can someone please point me to where in the manual this naming convention is explained.

Is there a way of turning it off so that I can use names like: plate, gusset, door, Fred, Wilma, Moe, Larry, CurlyJoe?

Thank you.

Phil