PNLGEN

Generates panel data for each shell group that is found to be perpendicular to the global coordinate system Z-axis. This command will associate a panel numbers in groups in an ascending order based on group number.Each panel will have BBC number equal to the panel number and the force option and displacement type equal to 1. The user must fill in the backbone curve information for every panel using the BBCI and BBCP commands or loading BBC information from an external file using the BBC command. This command uses the first element of group to determine the panels orientation. This command is intended to be used on a nonlinear panel model. The shells in the model have to have been regrouped using at least the WALLFLR command as shown in Creating a Nonlinear Panel Model.