Find and Display Entities - HyperView

Find and display entities based on their connectivity or proximity to other selected entities.

  1. From the View Controls toolbar, click .
  2. From the guide bar, choose the output entity type.
  3. Choose the desired function: Attached To Function or Nearby Function.
  4. Select the input entities to execute the Find operation.
Tip: The find function executes automatically whenever a selection is made. To do this manually, click to disable automatic mode and execute the find operation by clicking .

Attached To Function

The Attached to function finds entities that are attached or connected to the selected FE entities.

For example, finding elements that are attached to the selected elements.

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  • - Display the next layer of connected entities.
  • - Find all entities connected to the selected entities. This is equivalent to clicking repeatedly on till there are no more entities that are connected to the selected entities.
  • - Save the found entities to the user mark. Saved selections can retrieved later by right-clicking and selecting Select > Retrieve Selection from the context menu.
Restriction: and are only enabled when the output and input entity types match. For example, finding elements attached to selected elements.

The Attached to function can also be used to find entities that are not the same as the input entity. For example, the image below shows components attached to the selected elements are found.

Figure 2.


Nearby Function

The Nearby function finds entities that are near the selected entities, within a specified distance that can be modified in the Radius input field.

The default radius value is 100.

In the example shown in below, all the elements within a search radius of 100 of the selected elements are found.

Figure 3.


Options

Action
Choose between the action of showing or isolating the entities that are found.
Show IDs
Enable to show the IDs of the found entities. Disable to clear IDs.
Highlight found entities
When the action is set to Show, this option highlights the found entities.
Note: Only applicable when Attached to is selected.
Search method
Currently only the Sphere method is supported in HyperView.
Note:
  1. Performance of the Find Nearby in HyperView depends on the input selection size and Radius, that is, if a large number of entities are selected and/or Radius is increased, the time to calculate nearby entities will increase. This will be optimized in the future.
  2. In HyperView, entities of only one type can be found nearby, unlike HyperMesh.