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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">File Management Statement Summary </div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The following is a summary of all File Management statements: </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">$ </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Comment statement. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">ACQUIRE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Selects NDDL schema and NX Nastran Delivery Database. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">ASSIGN </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Assigns physical files to DBset members or special FORTRAN files. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">CONNECT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Groups geometry data by evaluator and database. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBCLEAN </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Deletes selected database version(s) and/or projects. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBDICT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Prints the database directory in user-defined format. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBDIR </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Prints the database directory. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBFIX </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Identifies and optionally corrects errors found in the database. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBLOAD </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Loads a database previously unloaded by DBUNLOAD. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBLOCATE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Obtains data blocks and parameters from databases. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBSETDEL </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Deletes DBsets. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBUNLOAD </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Unloads a database for compression, transfer, or archival storage. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">DBUPDATE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Specifies the time between updates of the database directory. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">ENDJOB </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Terminates a job upon completion of FMS statements. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">EXPAND </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Concatenates additional DBset members to an existing DBset. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">INCLUDE </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Inserts an external file in the input file. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">INIT </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Creates a temporary or permanent DBset. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">NASTRAN </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Specifies values for system cells. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">PROJ </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Defines the current or default project identifier. </p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The FMS statements are executed in the following order regardless of their order of appearance in the input file: </p>
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            <p class="para_item">NASTRAN, DEFINE </p>
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            <p class="para_item">RFINCLUDE, INCLUDE </p>
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            <p class="para_item">ASSIGN, INIT, EXPAND, DBUPDATE </p>
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            <p class="para_item">PROJECT  </p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBCLEAN </p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBFIX</p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBDIR (1), DBDICT(1)  </p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBSETDEL </p>
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            <p class="para_item">ACQUIRE </p>
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            <p class="para_item">RESTART</p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBLOCATE </p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBUNLOAD </p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBLOAD </p>
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            <p class="para_item">DBDIR (2), DBDICT(2) </p>
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            <p class="para_item">ENDJOB </p>
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      <p class="para_topic">If DBDIR or DBDICT is specified before any of the FMS statements DBSETDEL through DBLOAD, then the directory printout will reflect the processing of DBCLEAN and DBFIX only.  If DBDIR or DBDICT is specified after DBSETDEL through DBLOAD, then the directory printout will reflect the processing of all statements in the FMS Section.  It is recommended that the DBDIR and DBDICT statements be specified last in the FMS Section.  Multiple DBLOCATE, DBLOAD, or DBUNLOAD statements are processed in the order in which they appear.  If the ENDJOB statement is specified, then only the File Management Section is processed and the Executive Control, Case Control, and Bulk Data Sections are ignored. </p>
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