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[J.T.]

Using Workbench and Mechanical 2024R1

I am unable to pass along named selection of edges for an analysis that uses the deformation from a previous analysis. Named selection of faces works fine. Is this a known limitation or is there a setting that I'm missing?

Workbench Project Schematic attached below

[Ashish Khemka]

Hello,

Please see if the following link helps: 6.16. Geometry from Deformation Results (ansys.com)

Regards,

Ashish Khemka

[mjmiddle]

 

I believe the key wording is under the “Specifications and Limitations” section in the above documentation link:

 

• Named Selections (face-, node-, and elemental-based) transfer from the upstream system.

 

It does not include edge named selections. But there is a method to get it to work. Since the above mentions nodal named selections, you can right click on the edge named selection to “Create Nodal Named Selection”:

Now in the downstream Model properties, turn on “Create Geometry Edge Components”:

It will remake the edge named selection from the nodal named selection, and give it the same name.

 

[J.T.]

 

Thank you, that clears up why it wasn’t transfering over. The creation of a nodal name selection using this method workes for a single design point. I haven't been able to effectively test this on multiple design points but it seems like it should work there as well.