The “Group” corresponds to the Patran notion of group. Group objects can be stored in a DataBase object, retrieved from it and manipulated outside the DataBase. The manipulation methods outside the DataBase class are described here.
A list of the methods defined in “Group” class is given in Table I.3.1.
| Method Name | Description | Example |
| Creation and initialization methods
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| new (s) | I.3.2 | IV.2.5.1 |
| initialize | I.3.7 | |
| clone | I.3.7 | |
| Identification (attributes)
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| Name= | I.3.7 | IV.2.2.4 |
| Name | I.3.7 | |
| Manipulation of entities
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| getEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | IV.2.2.3 |
| getNbrEntities | I.3.3 | |
| getNbrEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | IV.2.2.3 |
| setEntities | I.3.3 | IV.2.5.1 |
| setEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | |
| addEntities | I.3.3 | |
| addEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | |
| removeEntities | I.3.3 | |
| removeEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | |
| clearAllEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | |
| matchWithDbEntities | I.3.3 | IV.2.5.1 |
| importEntitiesByType | I.3.3 | |
| containsEntity | I.3.3 | |
| Operators
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| + | I.3.4 | IV.2.5.1 |
| - | I.3.4 | |
| * | I.3.4 | IV.2.2.5 |
| / | I.3.4 | |
| BLOBs for SQL
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| toBlob | I.3.5 | |
| fromBlob | I.3.5 | |
| Iterators
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| each_element | I.3.6 | |
| each_rbe | I.3.6 | |
| each_node | I.3.6 | IV.2.2.3 |
| each_coordsys | I.3.6 | |
| Other methods
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| to_s | I.3.7 | |
| Attribute readers
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| NbrElements | I.3.7 | |
| NbrNodes | I.3.7 | |
| NbrRbes | I.3.7 | |
| NbrCoordSys | I.3.7 | |