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Use the Find panel to locate entities in a database. You can use the Find Entities subpanel to find individual elements in your model.
When you find entities, you will often want to turn on the IDs, or save them to the user mark. At the very least, when you find a hidden entity, it will be displayed.
The Find Attached subpanel finds entities that are attached to other entities. For example, after you have selected an element, you may use this function to view the elements that are attached to it, allowing you to move progressively through the model, row by row. The Find Attached subpanel allows you to find entities that are attached to geometry or FE entities.
The Between subpanel allows you to find entities that are shared by two or more of the selected entities. For example, you could find nodes that are shared between selected components or surfaces, and so on.
The Find panel contains the following subpanels:
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CommentsClick save found to place the found entities in the user mark. These entities can then be accessed from other panels using retrieve in extended entity selection. When finding connectors, you can choose to display only connectors or both connectors and the FE realization. When you click save found, only the found connectors are saved in the mark (not the realized FE). |
For example, select elems, lines, tags, etc.
CommentsSome combinations of entities such as finding nodes attached to nodes or finding connectors attached to contact surfs, are not valid operations. In such situations, an error message will be given. When finding entities attached to other entities, the display of the original entity remains unchanged. For example, if you are finding elements attached to an element with ID 6 and element 6 was not originally displayed on the graphics area, the find function displays the elements attached to element 6, but does not display element 6 itself. When you choose to find connectors attached to components, all the connectors that have the selected components as link entities in their definition are found. It is not the intention to find the connectors that reside in the selected components. For example, connectors (with IDs 1, 2 and 3) are defined as connecting components named floor and bracket. These connectors are in a component named welds. When you find connectors attached to component floor, all three connectors are displayed. But if you find connectors attached to component welds, none of the above connectors will be displayed (found). When you choose to find connectors attached to elements (or elements attached to connectors), all the connectors that have the selected elements as link entities in their definition are found. It is not the intention to find all the connectors that have the selected elements in their FE realization. For example, a model contains a connector defined as connecting shell element (ID 34) and element (ID 68). The connector is then realized as a weld element (ID 2156). When you find elements attached to this connector, elements with IDs 34 and 68 are found (not the weld element 2156). This function behaves in a similar fashion for finding connectors attached to elements. |
CommentsWhen you choose to find connectors between components, connectors that have all selected components as link entities in their definition are found. It is not the intention to find the connectors that reside in the selected components. The behavior for finding connectors between surfs, elems, and tags is similar. |
Click numbers off. |