CONTACTS is the number of contact elements that are expected to be in contact at any given time. It
defaults to 1000 and can be changed at the Begin level with the /CONFIG,NCONT command. This is
not the same as the total number of contact elements in the model.
ORDERER_ is a key that determines the automatic element reordering scheme: 0 (WSORT,ALL), 1
(WAVES), or 2 (both). It defaults to 2 and can be changed at the Begin level with the /CONFIG,ORDER
command.
Any of the following nine keywords that you do not specify is set to 100 the first time the program
encounters it.Whenever the current maximum is exceeded, the keyword value automatically doubles.
The maximum values are dynamically expanded, even at first encounter.
- MX_NODES is the maximum number of nodes. You can change the value (on most systems) at the
Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXND command. - MX_ELEMS is the maximum number of elements. You can change the value (on most systems) at the
Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXEL command. - MX_KEYPT is the maximum number of keypoints. You can change the value (on most systems) at the
Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXKP command. - MX_LINES is the maximum number of lines. You can change the value (on most systems) at the Begin
level with the /CONFIG,MXLS command. - MX_AREAS is the maximum number of areas. You can change the value (on most systems) at the
Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXAR command. - MX_VOLUS is the maximum number of volumes. You can change the value (on most systems) at the
Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXVL command. - MX_REALS is the maximum number of sets of real constants (element attributes). You can change
the value (on most systems) at the Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXRL command. - MX_COUPS is the maximum number of sets of coupled degrees of freedom. You can change the
value (on most systems) at the Begin level with the /CONFIG,MXCP command. - MX_CEQNS is the maximum number of constraint equations. You can change the value (on most
systems) at the Begin level with the /CONFIG,FMXCE command.
FILESPLT is the integer value indicating the file split point in megawords. A megaword is 1024*1024 4-
byte words, or 4 MB. All files that are eligible for splitting will be split into a new file every increment
of xxxx megawords (where xxxx is the value specified with this keyword). You can change the value
(on most systems) at the Begin level with the /CONFIG,FSPLIT command. See Splitting Files Across File
Partitions in the Operations Guide for more information on splitting files.
You can change many of the configuration settings at program start-up using entry options, at the Begin
level with the /CONFIG command, or with other the program commands. In most cases, therefore, there
is no need to create your own config150.ans file. Also, the default settings for each computer system
have been chosen for efficient running of typical models on typical system configurations. Change them
only for atypical models or atypical systems.
Note for Distributed ANSYS Distributed ANSYS sets the following keywords: NO_ELDBW = 1;
NO_RSTGM = 0; FSPLIT = the default value. The NO_ELDBW, NO_RSTGM, and FSPLIT options cannot be
changed when using Distributed ANSYS.
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