All components support the use of lists as inputs for geometry and others such as materials for a component block or the load magnitude for the various load components.

The supported ratios of geometry to other input items are:

• (a) 1:1 (1 geometry and 1 material)
• (b) N:1 (N geometries and 1 material)
• (c) N:N (N geometries and N materials).

With loads, the list behavior is the same as with geometry and materials.

• 1:1 (1 geometry and 1 load metadata)
• N:1 (N geometries and 1 load metadata)- this is effectively one load that is applied to the union of geometries.
• N:N (N geometries and N load metadata)- this create N different loads paired by index.

Here, “load metadata” refers to all data for that load type (e.g. 1 item for scalar loads, 2 items for vector loads: magnitude + direction).