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General Mechanical

General Mechanical

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How to get the surface ID of a surface?

    • fan134
      Subscriber

      Hello everyone,

      Can anybody help me to find the surface ID of the green colored surface?

      Note: I tried to get surface ID from the worksheet but unfrotunately even after solving I couldn't access the worksheet!

    • Akshay Maniyar
      Ansys Employee

      Hi Faysal,

      You can try using 'selection information' under the Home tab.

      Thanks,

      Akshay Maniyar

    • ErKo
      Ansys Employee

      Hi 

      Just in case you are scripting inside mechanical and need the face id, in that case it can be retrieved with the following method:

      face_selid = ExtAPI.SelectionManager.CurrentSelection

      https://discuss.ansys.com/discussion/1624/get-body-in-tree-from-selected-face

      All the best

      Erik

    • fan134
      Subscriber

      Dear Erik,

      Thank you so much for your reply. I tried using "selection information" even before posting here but it didn't give me the ID of that face. And I tried your script too. Unfortunately, it didn't give me the ID as well. I've attached the pictures. Please take a look.

      Can you suggest me any other way? Thanks in advance.

       

      Regards,

      Faysal

       

      • ErKo
        Ansys Employee

        Hi

        We need to activate beta options in workbench to see the surface id in the selection info.

        See how to do that:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nne64wg-w5g

        For the script:

        To see/print it (face id) in the script/shell window where it says "Script Executed", just add this:

        face_selid = ExtAPI.SelectionManager.CurrentSelection

        print(face_selid)

    • ErKo
      Ansys Employee

       

       

    • ErKo
      Ansys Employee

      closing this as this post might be useful for others having similar issue.

       

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