{"id":1756,"date":"2012-03-29T12:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Element-Selection-by-Face-Femap-Tips-amp-Tricks\/ba-p\/334850"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:12:01","slug":"element-selection-by-face-femap-tips-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/element-selection-by-face-femap-tips-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Element Selection by Face \u2013 Femap Tips &#038; Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Sometimes in the absence of any underlying geometry, selection of groups of finite elements to work on can be challenging in any <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/definition\/cae.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CAE software<\/A> program. <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> includes many capabilities that can aid element selection, and in this video we\u2019ll see how you can control selection of a group of elements that have adjacent faces.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yu03v44Eek8\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in the absence of any underlying geometry, selection of groups of finite elements to work on can be challenging in any CAE software program. Femap includes many capabilities that can aid el&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}