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Select solid elements within enclosed volume?

Natalia_20940

Hi,

Is there a way of selecting elements within a volume (enclosed surface)?

So in my case, I have this solid hex mesh made with shrinkwrap:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

I now want to group the elements in separate components. For example, I want to select the elements within this tube and group them separately:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

I have hundreds of these enclosed surfaces that I would like to associate with elements. Doing this manually is, as you can imagine, very mundane work.

Do you have any appropriate method for this type of entity selection?

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QuyNguyenDai

Select your elements and move them to new comp directly. Why you need 'associate' to surfaces?

Natalia_20940

That does not really answer the question. I am trying to select the elements and move them to new comp directly.

But there is quite a lot of elements and the boundary volumes are asymmetrical and have very complex geometries.

The question I have is how to select the elements within the boundary.

tinh

If you can't select it 'by geom>solids', the only way is picking elems.

Return to time you creating the elems to organize surfs in seperated comps first.