How to rename all component name (which are starting with number currently) starting with alphabet (Lets say A_)?

DGK

For Abaqus profile, if the component name starts with a numeric character, it return the Syntax error. Hence, for Abaqus jobs, all the component names should start from Alphabet.

 

Currently all my component name starts from number. And those are hundreds in number. It is very tedious task to rename one by one by adding A_ (lets say) in front of each component name.

 

So my request is how to add A_ in front of all the component names?

PaulAltair

I adapted this tool from somewhere, a long while back? It has multiple find/replace capability, including a 1 click option to sort out all special characters or spaces, it doesn't have the specific option to add a prefix, but depending on your names, you may be able to workaround it as below, if this doesn't do what you need, maybe I could revisit it and add prefix as an option... load the tcl in HW/HM to use it

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FindnReplaceEntityNamesPS.tcl