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Arc Command

The Arc command defines a region to be filled with material points, to assign element materials, to be defined as a hole, or for boundary conditions:

Arc (xmin),(xmax),(ymin),(ymax),(arcStart),(arcEnd),<(tolerance)>

where the parameters are the xmin, xmax, ymin, and ymax, respectively, of a rectangle enclosing an oval (or R and Z minima and maxima if axisymmetric) in length units. If xmax<xmin or ymax<ymin, they will be automatically switched to define the oval. The arc will be path traced along border of the oval in the counterclockwise direction from angles specified in (arcStart) and (arcEnd), where 0 degrees is the positive x axis direction. The arc region will be distance (tolerance) on either side of the arc path.