Create a selection recipe for nearby nodes or points

1. in the Simulation Navigator, right-click the Selection Recipes node.To create a single-strategy selection recipe, choose New Selection Recipe.To create a stacked selection recipe that can include additional strategies or adapters, choose New Stacked Selection Recipe.

2. In the Name box, type a unique name for the selection recipe.

3. From the Strategy list, select Proximity.

4. If you are creating a stacked selection recipe, click Add .

5. From the Input Filter list, select the option that indicates where the entities that you want to select exist.For example, if you want to select nodes only in a particular mesh, you might select Mesh.You choice also affects the type of entities that you can select using this strategy. For example, if you select Mesh, you can select only nodes. If you select Entire Model or Component, you can also select points.

6. If you selected Mesh or Component from the Input Filter list, in the Input Filter subgroup, click Select Object and then select the appropriate object.

7. From the Entity Type list, select the type of entities that you want to select: Node or Point.

8. Click Select Object and then 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.

9. In the Tolerance box, type the maximum allowable distance between the specified object and the entities that you want to select.

10. (Optional) If you are creating a single-strategy selection recipe and want to highlight the selected entities in the graphics window, click Show Result . To stop highlighting the entities and activate the options in the dialog box so that you can change the selection recipe as needed, click Undo Result .If you are creating a stacked selection recipe, you can highlight the selected entities after you click OK in the Proximity Strategy dialog box.Tip: To see interior entities, choose View tab→Visibility group→See-Thru All .

11. Click OK.If you are creating a single-strategy selection recipe, the Create Selection Recipe dialog box closes, and the selection recipe appears under Selection Recipes in the Simulation Navigator.If you are creating a stacked selection recipe, the Proximity Strategy dialog box closes, and the Create Stacked Selection Recipe dialog box reappears.Tip: If you are creating a stacked selection recipe and 0 appears in the Count column in the strategy list table, the selection recipe is not selecting anything. You might have specified a tolerance distance that was too small. To modify the strategy, right-click the strategy in the list and choose Edit.When you edit a proximity strategy, you cannot change the input filter or the type of entities selected. However, you can select a different mesh or component.To use a different input filter or select a different type of entity, you must delete the existing strategy. To do this, right-click the strategy in the list and choose Delete. Then repeat steps 4–11 to create a new strategy.

12. (Optional) To narrow or widen the scope of your selection, select another strategy or an adapter from the Strategy list, click Add , and then complete the displayed dialog box (if any).For example, you might select Related Elements to select all of the elements connected to the previously selected nodes.

13. Click OK in the Create Stacked Selection Recipes dialog box.The selection recipe appears under Selection Recipes in the Simulation Navigator.

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