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VMoveCAE provides the ability to create element groups satisfying certain criteria. At present, this criteria is limited. User can specify a result and instance and group elements based on if the result is available for the element or not. This tutorial describes the procedure for creating these element groups.
Start VMoveCAE and Load a CAE file: Start VMoveCAE and load the caliper.op2 file.
Select any result in the results list: Select a result say “Stress (Centroidal)”. This now pops up the "Instance List" as shown in the following figure.
Click on the “Add Elements Groups” tool: Element groups can be created using “Element Grouping” window. To enable this window, click on the “Add Element Groups” tool. This pops up the “Element Grouping” window.
Check “Group elements with result” checkbox: Let us now check the “Group elements with result” checkbox. This will add a new group into the Geometry window as shown in the following figure.
Save CAx and open it in VCollab Professional: Translate and create a CAx file. Open it in Professional or Presenter to visualize the added group.
Set display settings: For better visualization, user can change the part display settings. The following snapshots makes “Object 1” invisible, and “Stress (Centroidal) L2M1 Not Specified” transparent and “Stress (Centroidal) L2M1 Specified” into shaded mesh modes. to visualize the added group.