Purpose: This panel provides a broad range of options for selecting model entities and is used extensively from within many of LS-PrePost’s other main interfaces.
Pick – Select/Deselect a single entity
Area – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined area Poly – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined region Sel1 – Pick 1 entity (only 1 will be in buffer) Sphe – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined sphere Box – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined box Prox – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside the proximity of a part Circ – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined circle Frin – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a fringe plot range Plan – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a geometric plane In – Select/Deselect entities inside the area/polygon Out – Select/Deselect entities outside the area/polygon Add – Add entities to selection Rm – Remove entities from selectionEnter entity IDs (for nodes/elements/parts)
Label – Turn label on/ff for new selection
Prop – Propagate selection with seed element Adap – Propagate across constrained adaptive element 3Dsurf – Turn on to select outer surface (only for solid elements)Select adjacent elements
Select attached elements
Clear all selections
Save entities to buffer
Load saved entities from buffer
Deselect last selected entity
Select all entities within model
Select all visible entities
Reverse entity selection
ByNode – Make node based selection ByElem – Make element based selection ByPart – Make part based selection BySet – Make set based selection ByEdge – Make edge based selection BySegm – Make segment based selection Point – Select points Line – Select lines Surf – Select surfaces