{"id":159633,"date":"2022-09-26T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/selecting-all-inner-faces-of-a-body\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T06:32:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:32:44","slug":"selecting-all-inner-faces-of-a-body","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/selecting-all-inner-faces-of-a-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting all inner faces of a body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some cases, you need to select all the inner faces of a model for performing operations like creating a group or defining boundary conditions. Since all inner faces are not easily visible, it becomes a challenge to select\u00a0such faces. However, you can easily select all inner faces with a few clicks as shown below:<\/p>\n<p>1. Click the Quick access button to open the quick access tools. Then select\u00a0 &#8220;Selection tools&#8221; option<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"discovery-image\" style=\"width: 100px!important;\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-1.png\" alt=\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-2-150x150.png\" alt=\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Select the &#8220;Using Boundary&#8221; selection<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156179\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-3.png\" alt=\" width=\"262\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Select all the capping faces of the body which represent the boundaries of the inner faces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156180\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-4.png\" alt=\" width=\"568\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Next, select the Seed face tool<a class=\"wp-colorbox-image cboxElement\" href=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive img-fluid\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-5.png\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 and select any one of the inner faces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156184\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-6.png\" alt=\" width=\"577\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. As soon as you select the seed face, all the inner faces bounded by the capping faces get selected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156185\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-68-7.png\" alt=\" width=\"569\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-159633","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-model-faq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["09-13-2022  20:20:12"],"_bbp_forum_id":["159549"],"_btv_view_count":["8289"],"family":["Discovery Products"],"application_name":["Discovery"],"product_version":["2020R2"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}