seperate faces to different components, view cut through component

Altair Forum User

Hi,

 

I just started to work with HM and have two questions:

 

1) I do have a flat solid with variable thickness. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to share a picture of such a component. You may imagine a deformed piece of orange peel with some holes.

I want to seperate the inner and outer surface and organize both in different components. Both inner and outer surface are built of several faces.

I tried with Geometry -> Organize -> Surfaces  and  select surfaces 'by face'. However, that selects almost every face of the entire component.

Is there another way to collect the faces of the inner/ outer surface different than selecting all (about 100 little faces) manually?

 

2) Is there a way to view a cut through the component? I couldn't find anything related to that in the help.

 

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Franziska

 

Altair Forum User

Hi Franziska,

Go to Tools>Faces, select the component and click find faces. After this you can select element by face.

Go to Post>Hidden line option, user can select the plane and check trim planes option so that  the model is masked so that only the parts beyond the cutting plane is displayed.