{"id":50320,"date":"2020-12-03T10:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/material-assignment-in-named-selection\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:26:57","slug":"material-assignment-in-named-selection","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/material-assignment-in-named-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Material assignment in named selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody!nI am working on Static Structural Analysis in ANSYS R20.1 and here goes my question. nI have a single body, that is meshed and I need to select some of the elements within this mesh and assign different material properties than the rest of the structure. Some primitive questions arise within this context:ni) Can I somehow select elements that correspond to a certain value in space (e.g. pointcloud match) in an automated manner?nii) I have found out about the APDL commands (mpchg, emodif) where it is allowed that the attributes of an element can change, such as material. Given that I have derived a named selection of my points\/elements could I make use of a Command Snippet at the Static Structural interface, probably combining this with the REAL CONSTANT of the named selection? If so, where should I place the snippet?nIn the Static Structural context, I have noticed that I can assign a material based on a named selection, but not when the named selection is either elemental or nodal.nI have been following this wonderful forum for more than the past year. I have to thank you all for putting time and effort on publicly discussing your modeling issues, it&#8217;s been insightful! Exceptional forum operators\/moderators and community overall!nThanks a lot!nVassilisn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-50320","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-material-assignments","topic-tag-static-structural"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["22566"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":["S\u053e?"],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2658"],"_bbp_subscription":["255195"],"_bbpmt_movedon":["2022-08-26 08:35:20"],"_bbpmt_movedfrom":["27820"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["50320"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["81","5977","181073"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["134926"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["134926"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-12-03 15:10:30"]},"test":"vassilis"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/50320","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\/50320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}