Find/Select Specific Element by Name
Find/Select Specific Element by Name
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I ran a SESTATIC 101 analysis, which failed and browsing through the log files, I found about 100 lines in the .f06 file which say
"*** USER WARNING MESSAGE 5276 (EQD8D)
ELEMENT 183427 HAS TOO MUCH CURVATURE AND MAY YIELD POOR ANSWERS."
Ran a FEM model check to see if the .f06 elements were in the failed elements list, but the first 15 I checked were not.
My question: is there a way to highlight/find/select a specific element by name (i.e. Element 183427) so that I can see where it is in the model and possibly adjust the mesh in the problem area?
"*** USER WARNING MESSAGE 5276 (EQD8D)
ELEMENT 183427 HAS TOO MUCH CURVATURE AND MAY YIELD POOR ANSWERS."
Ran a FEM model check to see if the .f06 elements were in the failed elements list, but the first 15 I checked were not.
My question: is there a way to highlight/find/select a specific element by name (i.e. Element 183427) so that I can see where it is in the model and possibly adjust the mesh in the problem area?





RE: Find/Select Specific Element by Name
Regards,
Tomas
RE: Find/Select Specific Element by Name
I discovered that in the FEM you can create a new group and add elements by name to the group, then use the group for selection. I had close to a thousand elements to add, so I created an AutoHotKey script to parse the log file and add the elements automatically.