{"id":395220,"date":"2024-11-25T17:53:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/spaceclaim-keeps-stripping-the-named-selections-from-my-model\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:55:47","slug":"spaceclaim-keeps-stripping-the-named-selections-from-my-model","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/spaceclaim-keeps-stripping-the-named-selections-from-my-model\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceClaim Keeps Stripping the Named Selections from my Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is extremely frustrating and infuriating.&nbsp; I am importing CAD data from Catia with Named Selections with the NS selection key.&nbsp; Mechanical pulls in all of the named selections without any problems.&nbsp; But, because Catia models curved surfaces as split facelets I need to import into Space Claim to merge cylindrical faces so I can use them for stuff like bolt pretensions.&nbsp; I have no idea why but SpaceClaim is stripping the named selections from my model so when I go back into Mechanical the Named Selections are gone.&nbsp; I am ticking the &#8220;named selections&#8221; box in Workbench under geometry properties before importing and I have even gone into SpaceClaim to change the settings under SpaceClaim Options&gt;File Options&gt;Workbench&gt;Named Selections but when I go back into SpaceClaim the box is unticked again!!! &nbsp;\ud83d\ude21 &lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have tried deleting the AppData&gt;Roming folders and this doesn&#8217;t help.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m looking at AppData&gt;Local&gt;Spaceclaim&gt;SpaceClaim.exe_######&gt;User.Config and it says [NamedSelections]true[\/NamedSelections] [NamedSelectionsKey]NS[\/NamedSelectionsKey]&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why Won&#8217;t this work!?!?!?&nbsp; I was working and now it&#8217;s not.&nbsp; Every time I delete the AppData I have to redo a bunch of work to reset everything and it usually ends up biting me in the ass.&nbsp; If anyone can suggest a solution I would be greatful.&nbsp; I&#8217;m running Ansys 2023R1&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-395220","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is extremely frustrating and infuriating. 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