How to select elements enclosed by a solid?

Aravind Vissamsetty
Aravind Vissamsetty Altair Community Member
edited April 2022 in Community Q&A

Hello. 

I have this large model that is already meshed with surface elements and does not have any geometry associations. My goal was to select elements along strips of a certain width, along the length of the model.

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I created a solid body in a CAD program for my required shape (with enough tolerance on both sides) and imported it into HyperMesh. It is now superimposed upon the elements, as I intended it to.

imageMy goal is to select the elements (or even the nodes) enclosed by that solid body. I tried to do that by using the "by Geoms > Solid" option, but I understand the elements/nodes have to be associated to the body for that to work.

How can I associate them to the newly imported body?

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  • Jason_Craanen
    Jason_Craanen
    Altair Employee
    edited April 2022 Answer ✓

    Hello,

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  • Aravind Vissamsetty
    Aravind Vissamsetty Altair Community Member
    edited April 2022
    Jason Craanen_20442 said:

    Hello,

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    Thank you for the reply. I figured the same thing out from some old posts elsewhere, when I understood that I should be trying to associate the nodes to the instead of the elements.

    But this was quite clear and should help anyone who has a similar question in the future.

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