Find and Replace Entity Names

Chayan
Chayan
Altair Employee
edited April 2022 in Altair Exchange

Overview

Find any string in entity types and replace with the new string. Exactly works similar to "find and replace function" in notepad, word or excel.

Usage/Installation Instructions

Can replace all the spaces from all entities, can replace special characters like "! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) +" from all entity names at once. Can find and replace any text in entity names. for example: INPUT: compname : Rail_connections findtext : connections replacetext : conn OUTPUT : Rail_conn replaces in only the selected entity types from the available gui.

 

Limitation

This function is CASE SENSITIVE.

Functionality

API

Subfunctionality

Tcl Commands

Interface

No Specific Interface, Abaqus, Acis, Ansys, Catia, CFD, Crash, Dxf, HMascii, HyperStudy, Ideas, Iges, JT, LS-Dyna, Madymo, Manufacturing, Marc, Nastran, NVH, OptiStruct, Other, Pamcrash, Parasolid, Patran, Pdgs, Permas, ProE, RADIOSS (Block), RADIOSS (Bulk Data), Samcef, SolidWorks, Step, STL, Tribon, UG, Vdafs