Elements

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Near By Elements

This option displays the near by elements of the given input elements.

• Include solid elements

  Enabling this option will display the near by solid elements in addition to the surface elements.

• Steps
  1. Select input elements and click on Show NearBy Elements. This will display the elements around the given input elements.
  2. Distance will be shown after displaying near by elements. Now the user can increase or decrease the distance of elements shown, also the user can specify any desired distance.

• Example

  The input elements are shown below.

  

  After clicking Show Near By Elements, the following output will be obtained. Now the user can increase or decrease the distance or can specify any desired distance.

  

  The following output shows near by elements of distance 30 around the input elements.

  

Containing Face

This option works for the selected shell elements and nodes. Set the focus on the "Element ID" edit box, and select the shell elements. This will display the element's ID. Same way, set the focus on the "Node ID" edit box and select nodes.

"Show" option will add the faces which are having the selected elements and nodes to the selection list. If "Hide" option is selected, then those faces will be hidden.

This is mainly used to show the faces when we do free edge display using Mesh|Verify|Edges.