How To Select A Volume

rwhirleyrwhirley
I have built a model with two components - almost like two parallel beams. I initially built them all as one component with the same material. I now want to change one of the beams to be a separate component so I can define a new material for it, but I am having trouble selecting the entire volume. Each beam is modeled with a fine mesh of solid (C3D8) elements. How can I select one entire beam to convert it to a new component?

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  • VMHVMH
    If u can have a view that they are separated, you can turn off the view for element surfaces and turn on the view for nodes. Then window select the interested nodes. After that, click on the select elements icon (one of the three icons in the top middle of the screen). You should see all of the interested elements are now selected. Then mouse right click on the selected elements. You should see a popup window with an option to add elements to new component.

    If this doesn't help, can you share your .liml model. Thanks
  • rwhirleyrwhirley
    That worked perfectly. Thanks Victor.
  • VictorVictor
    Quick note. VMH is a different person from me :)
  • rwhirleyrwhirley
    Oops - apologies to you both.

    VMH - thank YOU for the helpful suggestion.

    -Robert
  • VMHVMH
    edited January 2016
    NP. So far Mecway is the best out there for the price vs functions. Best wishes.
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