{"id":23589,"date":"2014-11-06T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=23589"},"modified":"2014-10-25T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T12:47:18","slug":"smartcut-using-power-select-in-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/11\/smartcut-using-power-select-in-simulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Smartcut: Using Power Select in Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently was working on a somewhat complex model from a customer in Simulation, and I used the Power Select<\/strong> tool in SOLIDWORKS to help make the job easier. Here’s a cut view of an example\u00a0model so that you can see all the small faces where I needed to\u00a0apply a pressure loading, and hopefully you can imagine the task of having to make sure all of them were properly selected in the Simulation load dialog box. This is where I remembered the ability of the Power Select tool to get features based on color.<\/p>\n

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So I systematically made several different selections of faces (of course also using the face filter tool) and colored them a nice Red color indicating where the pressure was to be applied. This made the task of making sure all of the required faces were grabbed since I could clearly see whether they were red or white; this was the the case for very small faces that were areas of a fillet feature.<\/p>\n

After I was assured that I had all the faces I needed, then I invoked the Power Select tool from the drop down menu of the selection Arrow.<\/p>\n

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Then in the Power Select dialog, I chose to select only Faces, and filter them only by Face Color. Hitting the “Search” button then instantly found the 127 faces!<\/p>\n

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Upon hitting the Close button, I had all the faces pre-selected for me to apply the Pressure loading in Simulation with the confidence that I knew that I had everything.<\/p>\n

I’m also loving\u00a0the Selection Sets functionality in SOLIDWORKS 2015<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in all the Simulation products. It is better to do things smarter<\/strong> than harder… what is called a smartcut<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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