{"id":878,"date":"2013-06-04T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Femap-Tips-amp-Tricks-Entity-ID-Contouring-for-Model-Checking\/ba-p\/335107"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:03:08","slug":"femap-tips-tricks-entity-id-contouring-for-model-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/femap-tips-tricks-entity-id-contouring-for-model-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap Tips &#038; Tricks: Entity ID Contouring for Model Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/femap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> has a lot of visualization tools that can be used to verify the model. For example it\u2019s possible to assign colors to entity IDs allowing a quick visual check of the numbering scheme of the model. In this tips and tricks video you\u2019ll see a couple of ways to verify the entity ID numbering of a model through color assignment.<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/demos\/index.shtml#lightview%26uri=tcm:1023-208763%26title=Femap%20Tips%20and%20Tricks%20-%20Entity%20ID%20Contouring%26docType=.flv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15348\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2013\/06\/Tip22_EntityIDContouring.jpg\" alt=\"Femap entity ID contourning for model checking\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<BR \/><BR \/>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femap.software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap on facebook<\/A> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=2270365&amp;trk=hb_side_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap group on LInkedin<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femap has a lot of visualization tools that can be used to verify the model. For example it\u2019s possible to assign colors to entity IDs allowing a quick visual check of the numbering scheme of the mode&#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":[22],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-femap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}