When I started using Moldflow my first impression was, that there are no good selection tools. I dealed a lot with FEM tools like Marc (Mentat) and Mesh related tools similar to Max and Maya (just cheaper 🙂 ) They have selection tools that Molodflow users would love to have like loop selection, patch selection, connectivity, color selection (selection by color), even pattern selection or shortest path selection or selection by size. I can also imagine to chose a node, switch to mesh and all triangle or tetras (depending on choice) around that node are selected, but also the other way around (selecting the mesh and switch to node selection. From a Moldflow Meeting I know from Dr. Franco Costa and Hanno, that the nodes are not really connected with the mesh we see. So the underlaying structure doens't allow for these selection. The only way so far is to export a patran mesh, since it keeps the node No. you can than select in your FEM Tool of choice and use the selection list in Moldflow to get your points for a path plot. I saw one implementation from a company in that Moldflow Meeting (2014 Frankfurt) . Just don't remember who it was. But if that is the only solution possible, than a button in Moldflow would be nice that does the trick, I made my pattern selection outside of MF and copy and paste teh list with the selected items (in the right format) into Moldflow again. That push of button might take once longer than usual answer times, but the gain in speed for analysis is clear. -------------- What I did so far: Usually for selections on the mesh I use the DD Mesh, that I ever do before going 3D. They share the same nodes! (That can't be found in the help files btw.) Because of that I tried it with STL export, because the tools mentioned above all read STL without problems. But the node numbers of an DD mesh and the exported STL Node No. are not the same anymore: If that was possible (to get the same node no. as in the DD Mesh), a bunch of selection tools is very close by. (If you speak phyton in that case, I'm not very familar with it...) Regards Harald
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