Hotspot finder - get entity id as element id instead of node id

Jouher_20819
Jouher_20819 Altair Community Member
edited April 2021 in Community Q&A

Hi Team,

I am using query function with rules to get the hotspots. But, it returns node id. I am looking forward for element id.

Is there any way? Even manually when I am searching hotspots, the finder returns entity id which is node id. Please help me to change it to element id

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  • Michele Macchioni
    Michele Macchioni
    Altair Employee
    edited April 2021

    Jouher,

    the entities returned by a query are bound to datatype you are looking at.

    Few examples:

    • Displacements : bound to nodes
    • Element Stresses (2D&3D) : bound to elements

    If you use corner data and averaging method in case of stresses or elemental bound datatypes for instances, the binding is changed to nodes.

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    hope this clarifies.

    Thanks

    Michele

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