How can I define a named selection which contains all faces included in contacts?

Javier Vique

The idea is to generate a named selection with conta and target areas included in all contacts.

Javier Vique

This can be easily done with Mechanical scripting. Assuming that all contacts are face-to-face and defined by geometrical entities, we can loop over them, extract ids and assign them to a named selection. Below the code:

all_contacts = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(DataModelObjectCategory.ContactRegion)

ids_surfaces = []

for contact in all_contacts:

  ids_surfaces.append(contact.SourceLocation.Ids)

  ids_surfaces.append(contact.TargetLocation.Ids)

ids_unique = list(set(item for sublist in ids_surfaces for item in sublist))

tempSel = ExtAPI.SelectionManager.CreateSelectionInfo(SelectionTypeEnum.GeometryEntities)

tempSel.Ids = ids_unique

ns = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.AddNamedSelection()

ns.Location = tempSel

ns.Name = 'NS_Contacts'