How to separate design response from non response area ?

Altair Forum User

Hello

 

I am new to this forum and I am stuck with a pretty basic problem,which, however, I do not know how to solve.

 

I am trying to do the optimization of a monocoque(carbon-fiber). I have imported the geomery  as a singe surface from another CAD program as IGES and what I am trying to do now is to separate the design areas from the non-design areas. 

 

In order to do that, I am assigning the properties I create to the elements from the design areas. Afterwards I create a new component with the property assigned to the elements. This works, since when I hide the 'lvl0' component, I am able to see only the areas I assigned the properties to. 

 

However, this area stays with the color assigned to 'lvl0' component, even when I hide it. And when i delete 'lvl0'the model dissapears completely.

 

My question being: is there anyway to divide the original component so I can be able to see the different parts of the monocoque in different colors?

This is very important since i have a lot of different design areas and with different colors would be a lot easier to control the properties of every area.

 

 

Thank you very much in advance

Altair Forum User

Hi bsp318

 

You can organize elements into different components using Organize entities panel. (Shift+F11 is the shortcut for Organize entities)

 

Create a compoenent with name say non-design, Select the elements which you want to keep in non-design, set the destination component as non-design and click Move

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Altair Forum User

Thank you very much.  It worked perfectly!!