{"id":252630,"date":"2023-03-05T18:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-change-the-element-id-numbers-manually-in-ansys-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:44:38","slug":"how-to-change-the-element-id-numbers-manually-in-ansys-mechanical","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-change-the-element-id-numbers-manually-in-ansys-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the Element ID numbers manually in ANSYS Mechanical?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there. Below picture shows a simple 20 by 40 mm surface body, where I have generated mesh of the size 2 mm, with a total elements equal to 200. The highlighted mesh element in green color represents the mesh element which has been assigned an element ID of 1 by the software randomly.<\/p>\n

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As observed, the element with ID = 1 lies somewhere in the middle of the surface body, which is not desired. Instead, what I desire is that the element which has to have an element ID = 1 should begin from the the lower left corner, and continue from there horizontally, and then move up the row, and continue until the last element on the top right corner has been assigned the final element ID of 200. How can I achieve this task? Kindly help.<\/p>\n

I have a few ideas in mind, which might be viable but I don’t know how to proceed with each. First idea suggests that I shall manually assign an ID number to each element on the Mechanical interface, possibly through options under the mesh settings. Other idea suggests that I shall be able to import the complete mesh data into a text file, modify the element IDs and then import it back into the mechanical and implement that mesh onto the surface body. For both of these ideas, I don’t know they can actually be executed. Please assist. Thanks.<\/p>\n

PS: I am using ANSYS Workbench 2021R1 version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-252630","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-mesh","topic-tag-meshing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["180472","58821","240"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.220.96.181"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2650"],"_edit_lock":["1678041846:65451"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["252630"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","58821","180472"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["252726"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["252726"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-03-06 15:28:56"]},"test":"rameez_ul_haq"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/252630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/252630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}