Selecting an element/node by its Id, how to find which body the element/node corresponds to?

amusthaf
amusthaf Member Posts: 12
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edited June 21 in Structures

I have an element id, but I need the body to which the element corresponds to.

In general, I have a named selection with all the elements of a body. I need to find out to which body the elements correspond to in the assembly.

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  • Pernelle Marone-Hitz
    Pernelle Marone-Hitz Member, Moderator, Employee Posts: 596
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    Hi @amusthaf ,

    The below script should help:

    element_ns = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByName('NS_Elements')[0] 
first_element_id = element_ns.Location.Ids[0]


mesh_data = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Analyses[0].MeshData


bodies = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Geometry.GetChildren(DataModelObjectCategory.Body, True)
for body in bodies:
    geobody = body.GetGeoBody()
    mesh_for_body = mesh_data.MeshRegionById(geobody.Id)
    if first_element_id in mesh_for_body.ElementIds:
        print('Element ' + str(first_element_id) + ' is in body named: ' + str(body.Name))

    This is NS_Elements:

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    This is the geometry structure:

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    And the script returns:

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    Which we can verify as follows:

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