obtain nodes from cutting section

- January 12, 2019 at 3:13 pm
  
  Shaimaa
  Subscriber
  
  I have a cube in ApDl and meshed it,i need to select nodes in certain cutting plane (layer at the cube). How can do that?
- January 14, 2019 at 9:46 am
  
  jj77
  Subscriber
  
  If using nsel, using location, can be tricky if the plane is inclined. Perhaps split the geom. so there is a a face/area on that inclined plane, and use then, asel,to select that face (say by number), followed by nsla,s,1 to get all the nodes on the selected face.
  
  See the chapter about selecting and components (chapter 9 in mechanical apdl guide):
  
  https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v192/ans_bas/Hlp_G_BAS7_2.html
  
  Possibly also by using components, and then commands like cmsel.
  
  Open ansys help and copy and paste that into your browser