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Proximity Strategy dialog box

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Input Filter Appears when you create, edit, or clone a single-strategy selection recipe, or when you add the first strategy to a stacked selection recipe. Available when you create or clone a selection recipe.Specifies where the entities that you want to select exist.The listed options vary, depending on whether the Simulation file or FEM file is the displayed part.Selecting any option other than Entire Model limits the scope of the strategy.
Select Object Appears when Input Filter is set to Mesh or Component.Lets you select the mesh or component FEM where the entities that you want to select exist.
Entity Type Available when you create or clone a single-strategy selection recipe, or when you add the first strategy to a stacked selection recipe.Specifies the type of entity to select using this strategy: Node or Point.
Selection
Select Object Lets you select the point, mesh point, curve, or polygon edge or face in the graphics window that is near the entities that you want to select.
Tolerance Sets the maximum allowable distance between the specified object and the entities to select.All nodes or points within this distance are selected. If none exist, the selection recipe does not select anything unless the model changes.
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Proximity Strategy dialog box, Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series

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