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How do coloured particles retain their colour over different time steps regardless of their position?

H_Engbert

I am currently working on a simulation in which the mixing of soil after a cultivator pass is analysed. For this I am trying to colour the soil particles into different layers before the cultivator passes through. The coloured particles should keep their colour after the passage - independent of how their position has changed. This is very similar to the example from the EDEM eLearning videos that I have attached here.

I have already tried it with imported selections - see pictures - but unfortunately without success.

Many thanks for your help

Best regards
HE

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Stephen Cole

Hi Hendrik,

I'd recommend using a clipping plane to create a slice of material. You can then select this slice with 'manual selections' and this will retain the colouring you can set for the selection.

The selections and clipping are shown in the Analyst Overview and Key Functionality videos in the e-learning

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Regards

Stephen

H_Engbert

Okay, thank you for your answer. So, there is no easier / faster way than doing it manually like you've described it?

Stefan Pantaleev_21979

Okay, thank you for your answer. So, there is no easier / faster way than doing it manually like you've described it?

Hi Hendrik,

To avoid using manual selection you could have a bulk material per layer with identical material properties for all bulk materials and then colour by particle type in the EDEM Analyst. You could use EDEM volume packing tool to introduce approximately regular layers - https://help.altair.com/edem/Creator/Creator_Tree-Geometries.htm.

Best regards,

Stefan