{"id":44157,"date":"2020-05-19T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/identifying-contact-elements-in-ansys-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:01:45","slug":"identifying-contact-elements-in-ansys-mechanical","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/identifying-contact-elements-in-ansys-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying contact elements in Ansys Mechanical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everybody,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have a contact pair which is composed of several surfaces in the contact and target. I need to identify the contact element IDs of a certain surface.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I realized that the &#8220;select element&#8221; and &#8220;select mesh by ID&#8221; tools&nbsp;do not show CONTA174 elements.&nbsp;Neither these elements are&nbsp;displayed when the element type result is requested (&#8220;pnumtype&#8221;). However, CONTA174 element type is shown in the solver output, and contact elements can be identified if I transfer data to an Ansys APDL module.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Is there any tool to identify CONTA174 element IDs in Ansys Workbench?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Mikel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-44157","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["16338"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["7905"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["44157"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","154996"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["115342"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["115342"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-05-22 07:03:27"]},"test":"mezkurra"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/44157","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\/44157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}